Fellow Confederate Descendants

[mitsuki lover]

Ok,I'm wondering how many other members had relatives who served in the Confederate military during the Civil War.

[Roy Mustang]

Ok,I'm wondering how many other members had relatives who served in the Confederate military during the Civil War.

You mean the war between the states!

I had family members that both served in the miliary at that time.


Wingzero22

[EricTheFred]

I'm from both sides, too.

[Myoti]

I dunno, but I find it likely we could have some from both sides (mostly the Confederates, though XD ).

[Sakura15]

I have both sides

[Roy Mustang]

I dunno, but I find it likely we could have some from both sides (mostly the Confederates, though XD ).

Well, if your family was mostly born in Georgia, no.

SC, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and a few other southern states were in favor of the Confederate.

Both sides of my family born and rised in east Tennessee. Tennessee and Ky had people agreeing on both sides of the war. Most of the people from east Tennessee were for the Union and west Tennessee was for the Confederates. But I did look my family history and I found out that I had a few members on both sides of the war, but it seems like just about every US war, I had family on both sides of it. <_<

This is why you have West Va and Va. Back then, there was no West Va at all, but because people in Va took sides on the war. It cause the state to be spit (sp) into two states after the war, I think.


And this ends another wasting time with Wing!

Wingzero22

[Scribs]

Sorry, but I come from a line of yankees. W00t for the north!

[Arnobius]

Heck, I came from a line of dad blast furriners... Pretty much any relative born here had a father born in Europe until the time of my immediate grandparents. Only one of my ancestors might have been involved... though I guess he was born in Tenessee in 1857... further back we don't know, but his dad might have been a foreigner too

[shooraijin]

Born in a Confederate state, but to a Yankee dad and an Aussie mother. I guess that makes me a carpetbagger of some sort, although I'm back in Yankee territory again (as much as California can be considered Yankee).

[Puritan]

Dad's parents were German and Irish, no Confederate descendants there. Mom's family has been in the South for a really long time, so probably some Confederate blood there. Some of my relatives think they may be related to Robert E. Lee, but they aren't sure, and I think it likely that most long-time southern families would like to be related to him.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

My ancestors were born in Korea. Mwahaha

They were probably in some war of their own.

[chimera189]

my family was either on a reservation or still in Europe at that time

[FarmGirl]

I probably have some Rebels on my mother's side, but Dad's side came over from Europe relativly recently. Don't think they were here for the war.

[Yojimbo]

My dad's family hailed from Indiana and Pennsylvania so all Northern here. Mom's side records were lost in the Chicago fire but they might have been in the country before the Civil War so they could have also been in war.

[Alice]

To my knowledge, I'm a Northern girl all the way.

I'm pretty sure some of my ancestors were Amish or of similar religious persuasion, which would put them on the Northern, conscientious-objector side. It's possible that some of my ancestors were from the South or fought for the South, though.

I wouldn't mind knowing more about my ancestry, but I'm OK with not knowing, too.

[mitsuki lover]

Like a couple of you I also have ancestors on both sides.My paternal grandfather's people were from southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina and were
die hard Confederates.In fact they had part of a battle fought on their farm,the Confederate artillery being placed there in the early stages.Three of my great
grandfather's brothers all joined up to fight the Yankees as did his future father-in-law(he was only about 12 or 13 at the time so underaged).Two of his brothers never came back,KIA.The one that did come back had some interesting stories to tell later on.
His future-father-in-law was shot in the thigh and refused to allow the surgeons to remove the minie ball and it stuck there for the rest of his natural life.
On my paternal grandmother's side they were from Pennsylvania and so Unionists
as were more than likely my maternal grandfather's people who were in western
Pennsylvania.
My maternal grandmother's people were in Ireland but I found out that my maternal great grandmother's maternal grandfather made a fortune in shipping tobbacco out of the Confederacy during the War.

[TurkishMonky]

my family would be yankee also (ND origins) but i beleive they came over from germany and sweden after the war. (however, i was born in a confederate state)

[Shao Feng-Li]

The South shall rise again! er... A lot of my family comes from the south XD. I have no idea who served where.

[Myoti]

Well, if your family was mostly born in Georgia, no.

SC, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and a few other southern states were in favor of the Confederate.

Well, of my immediate family, yes, we're all Sutherners. Part there are a tiny few who could have come up from the North. Who knows? :p

[CDLviking]

My Great*x many times* grandfather was a member of the Union Army's Iron Brigade, and was wounded at Gettysburg. I actually bear a striking resemblence to him when I grow my beard out long.

It may be interesting to note that just because your ancestors were from a Confederate state doesn't necessarilly mean that they sided with the confederates. Many poor whites actually sided with the Union and in states that bordered the Union they crossed the border and joined up.

[EricTheFred]

Don't know any actual stories about the southern side of things, except about the slave owner who, seeing his slaves all set free, set up a school for them. That guy has always fascinated me and I wish I knew more about him. Especially since the only thing I do know about him is such a mixed message I don't know what to think about him.

On the northern side, the one that fascinates me is the guy who enlisted and fought for Iowa only a couple years after getting off the boat from Norway.

It may be interesting to note that just because your ancestors were from a Confederate state doesn't necessarilly mean that they sided with the confederates. Many poor whites actually sided with the Union and in states that bordered the Union they crossed the border and joined up.

Or vice-versa. My confederate ancestors were Missourians. Missouri was properly a Union state, but there were apparently lots of Confederate Missourians.
Also, many Americans don't know that a whole state split due to the war, and the split is still with us. When Virginia seceded, several counties in Virginia turned around and seceded from the state, thus creating the state of West Virginia.

[EricTheFred]

It may be interesting to note that just because your ancestors were from a Confederate state doesn't necessarilly mean that they sided with the confederates. Many poor whites actually sided with the Union and in states that bordered the Union they crossed the border and joined up.

Or vice-versa. My confederate ancestors were Missourians. Missouri was properly a Union state, but there were apparently lots of Confederate Missourians.
Also, many Americans don't know that a whole state split due to the war, and the split is still with us. When Virginia seceded, several counties in Virginia turned around and seceded from the state, thus creating the state of West Virginia.

[Sennin]

My ancestors were based in Baltimore, and the one that we know fought in the Civil War was on the confederate side. I believe he was wounded on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg and died three days later.

[mitsuki lover]

Ironically one of my g-g-g grandfather's maternal aunts was married to the
Rev.David Barrows who was a rareity in the 18th and 19th centuries,a Southern
Abolitionist.
I know that's off topic a bit but it is interesting that even in the South pre-Civil
War there were those who opposed slavery.

[CDLviking]

Or vice-versa. My confederate ancestors were Missourians. Missouri was properly a Union state, but there were apparently lots of Confederate Missourians.
Also, many Americans don't know that a whole state split due to the war, and the split is still with us. When Virginia seceded, several counties in Virginia turned around and seceded from the state, thus creating the state of West Virginia.

Missouri was a very divided state from its first settlement, and the site of much bloodshed.

There were actually quite a few southern abolitionists. The only people who benefitted to any great degree from slavery was the ruling class. It actually hurt most other whites economicly because it forced poor whites to reduce their prices and wages to compete with slave labor.

[Peanut]

As I stated in the famous apples thread I am somehow related to Jefferson Davis (he is a very distant relative of mine). Besides being related to Jefferson Davis, I think all of my ancestors who faught in the Civil War were Confederates, but honestly I am really not sure.

[Lady Macbeth]

There are several Union soldiers (and Revolutionary War soldiers) in my mother's line. Eventually, my mom's family migrated as far as northern Missouri (well after the war) but they still hold the Union half of Missouri's values.

I have not found confirmed evidence of military personnel on my dad's side, but he's related to John Wesley Harden (the famous outlaw who shot a man for snoring). According to Wes's autobiography, he and his family supported the Confederates during the Civil War, and he was exceptionally bitter that the South had lost. The first murder that he ever committed (again, acknowledged in his autobiography) was a young black man who refused to make way for him on a dirt road. He and Wes argued over who had the right to the road, and Wes shot him for being "uppity". He also made note of killing Native Americans while riding the cattle and feeling no remorse over it. He was a very proud, very white man from Texas who was exceptionally bitter over the results of the Civil War.