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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 09:53 PM Original message |
Anyone here descended from Confederate Southerners? |
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DODI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Union here --- great-great-great-grandfather |
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C.C.D. (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. I am. (m) |
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Kathy in Cambridge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. I've got Confederate in my grandma's family, and Union |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. The vote for South Carolina to seceed from The Union... |
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Menshevik (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yes |
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MO_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
24. Yes, those civil war pension files are |
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Menshevik (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
41. thanks, found the Natl Archive site |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
6. My ancestor (same full name) fought at the Battle of Bowling Green. |
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ridgerunner (368 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Here's a link |
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flyingfysh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. one on the Confederate side |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. nope |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
9. Yeah. So what? Doesn't make any better or less. nt |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
47. Nice hostility. He didn't say it made anybody better or worse. |
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lateo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
10. We had family on both sides... |
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lenidog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. I have them on both sides |
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outraged2 (306 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
12. yes |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. How'd they do that? |
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outraged2 (306 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. sorry I messed it up |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm not sure if my ancestors fought... |
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Mabeline (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
14. Both... |
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argyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. Yeah. Great grandfather from Georgia fought for the South.Not a slaveowner |
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SarahB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
16. Yes. |
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kitchen girl (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. The roots of my family tree spread |
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Somawas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
18. Ancestors on both sides |
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Somawas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
19. Oddly enough |
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WMliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
20. yeah, a little |
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Moonbeam_Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
22. Yes, a lot of them. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
23. I have ancestors on either side |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. Great grandfather was a southerner who was a Union soldier |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:18 PM Response to Reply #26 |
44. Eastern Tenn was a major Union stronghold in the Confederacy |
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Mallifica (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
27. Apparently, |
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LDS Jock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
28. I have a number of them |
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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
29. Thankfully, a good deal of me wasnt around for that mess |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. All Confederate here |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. Confederate... |
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shesemsmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
33. I'm not |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
34. I live in a red state & my ancestor was a Union General |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
35. branches in Ky. and Tenn., both sides of Civil War |
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floridaguy (751 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-29-04 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. It doesn't make sense to apologize for Confederate ancestors |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
37. Both my families |
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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
38. Not only rebels, at least one was a slaveowner |
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The Zanti Regent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
39. On my mother's side |
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Zomby Woof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
40. several |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
42. Well, Ah dee-clare |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
43. No, but I do know descendants of Admiral Dahlgren of the US Navy |
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AlFrankenFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
45. A relative or 2 from Virginia or North Carolina fought for the Confederacy |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
46. Yep. You'll never catch me flying the Confederate flag, though. |
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