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Poor. rednecks. Plenty of redheads with red hot tempers who received free boat rides to the America and settled in the Appalachians. The Brits banned the droning bagpipes so we made do with fiddles, banjos, guitars and dulcimers, and continued singing the old ballards of the homeland. Wife’s people were wealthy and can trace her maternal genealogy way back to knights and East Dutch India sea captains. They owned a plantation and had slaves. Lost everything after the War of Northern Aggression; couldn’t pay the taxes on the land during Reconstruction and one was a was a quarter Choctaw and moved to OK. He was a lawyer and a one armed Captain in the CSA. The Feds failed to pay the Choctaws for their lands after the Trail of Tears and removal. He represented them in DC and wrote the Stanley Code ( set of laws used in tribal courts). His daughter established the first Choctaw newspaper in the Indian Territories. Traced my parental side back to grandfather who fought and was wounded 2X in CSA. Was also a POW 2X. As far as we know, he never was “reconstructed”
and took an oath to the Union. The first time he was wounded he was sent to Camp Douglas (Chicago) a hellhole as bad as Andersonville. The ones who win the war; write the history. It was never about slavery but states rights. Lincoln never intended to give the slaves the franchise or right to vote. He did get a CDA pension late in life - $21.00 I believe annually. Hell my mother’s father died when she was two and her mother was forced to sharecrop to feed her 5 kids. Get sick and tired of blacks acting like they were the only ones to sharecrop and suffer poverty.

I believe that everyone alive has had ancestors who had slaves, or have been slaves. We are a product of thousands of successful ancestry.

I don't know how anybody could really know. By the time you get back to your 6th grate grandparents you've got 128 people feeding into your family tree. 64 couples that you're directly descended from.

I always heard it was more like a rabbit squeal. Funny that it is considered honorable to violate parole that saved his life . . . I would have loved to been with Sherman on his march through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Amazing thing is Sherman's army only suffered 1,300 casualties on that entire glorious campaign. Lee's army suffered more than 5 times that in less than hour in Pickett's "charge". Hard not to equate the Stars & Bars to the Swastika. My family was part of the GOP since before the Civil War and they still are staunch Republicans. A distant cousin was Republican governor.

I do not believe so.

I ain't ever owned any and you couldn't run fast enough to give me one.

Joe Bob: He joined up in Lowndes Co at the age of 21. If I remember correctly, it may have been Company D. He was at Fort Donelson when wounded in the leg and became a POW. Upon release, he went right back to his unit and took to killing more Yankees. I can’t imagine lining up abreast and marching into grapeshot and cannon fire. Often wondered what the “Rebel Yell” sounded like. I’ve heard Shelby Foote describe it as sorta like a fox hunters yelp. He is buried at Bethsaida Cemetery down the road from Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Holmes Co near Owen Wells. Has a CSA marker and is at the back left hand corner. Wife and I intend to make road trip to revisit the grave site and get GPS coordinates. It’s out east of Lexington.

I always heard it was more like a rabbit squeal. Funny that it is considered honorable to violate parole that saved his life . . . I would have loved to been with Sherman on his march through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Amazing thing is Sherman's army only suffered 1,300 casualties on that entire glorious campaign. Lee's army suffered more than 5 times that in less than hour in Pickett's "charge". Hard not to equate the Stars & Bars to the Swastika. My family was part of the GOP since before the Civil War and they still are staunch Republicans. A distant cousin was Republican governor.