Did your ancestors fight in the War Between the States?

How about it?

I had g g grandfathers on both sides of the family fight in the war. The one on my father's side for New Jersey and the one on my mother's side for Illinois.

 

Yes, but they were self-respecting so none fought for the Evil Yankee Hordes.

Had some relatives in the Revolutionary War too.

 

My dad's side of the family were Scottish and English immigrants from after the Civil War.

My mom's side of the family were pretty poor people from Arkansas who, I believe, immigrated from Tennessee in the late 19th century. So, chances are are, I've got some ancestors who served in the Confederate military. I know I've got relatives who were Confederates; at my family's cemetary in rural Arkansas, there's a grave marker for a distant relative of mine who was a Confederate officer.

 

To be honest I can't really blame the soldiers of either side during the CW. Same way I can't blame Royalists in the ARW. And to a lesser extent protesters for a cause I'm against in today's world.



Gotta respect someone willing to give a fuck, to actually do something for their beliefs instead of just sitting on their ass. Apathy is the true enemy of the Republic IMO. If someone believes something, I have a chance to change their minds and convince them of my position. If someone just doesn't give a shit, where do you go from there?

 

Yep. Being from Georgia, most of them fought for the south. There was at least one Officer who made Colonel in the Confederate Army.

They say a few did go off and fight for the Yankees:-S

 

The Internet is a wonderful thing.

I just discovered that my great-great grandfather was a Confederate soldier who died in the Civil War in 1864. He was 34 years old.

 

Did you have to pay Mormons for that info, or did you get it free?


If the latter, please pass on the link.

 

No, I got it by searching for my grandmother's maiden name and the county in which she lived. I was hoping to find the cemetery records so I could find the name of my relative who was a CSA officer; instead I found a wealth of information on my grandmother's family.

Here is what I found. My great-great-grandfather is at the top of the tree: Joseph W. Warren.

Alas, it's only a site someone put together for four or five generations of one part of my maternal grandmother's family...I am hoping to find more information on the other branches of the tree.

I'll post a link if I find any free resources that might be useful for anyone else's researh.

 

Had some in that war, putting down a few uppity colonists.
Had another that was in the battle for the plains of Abraham

 

One day when I'm not me (a lazy bastard) I'll put my (maternal) grandfather's research up on the web. He spent a couple years researching the genealogy of our family (all before the web, so done through letters, those are also included in the printings of the book, so pretty cool in their own right).

 

Had a couple that fought in th CW on the side of righteousness (Union of course)
had one that was a member of the Boston Tea Party
And had one that was a signer of the Declaration of Independence

 

My father's oldest sister has been into geneology for the last 25-30 years, so much so that she's researched our family as far as she can in the US (the first of our clan came over from England as an indentured servant in the late 1790s) and started doing research on other people's families.

From her research, I know that I have some ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, but it's been so long since I've seen the paperwork that I don't recall how many there were (three or four, I think) or which outfits they were with.

My family came to Texas (from Georgia, where that original fellow settled after being release from his servitude) prior to the Revolution and my great, great, great...uncles...fought in it (my direct ancestor, just a boy at the time, was their younger brother). One was massacred at Goliad and the other rode in the cavalry at San Jacinto.

 

Great-great Grandpa James Payne, 139th NY.
(I think that was the regiment).

I won't bother to post me holding his Springfield musket again, it's been seen here plenty.

 

I have found, to date, 25 g-g grandfathers, uncles, and cousins who fought in Confederate regiments from Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, and Texas.

And my g-g-g grandfather was a Colonial soldier in the Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolution.

My father was an American soldier and Master Sergeant during WW2, was in the Battle of Kasserine Pass and was wounded in the invasion of Salerno, Italy.

 

My great-whatever grandfather, Frederick Kopp, from Gallion, Ohio, fought at Gettysburg for an Ohio regiment. I know nothing else of him.

 

My g g g g g g grandfather on my father's side fought in the Revolution. First he fought for the colonists, then he switched sides and fought for the British. He was killed in New Jersey behind enemy lines in 1778.

 

Nope, none of my ancestors had come to America yet.

 

I had an ancestor named Noah that came up from Florida to fight in the war and lost a leg in a battle and settled in NC. (That was before the yankees took Florida for good)

 

Which enemy?

 

Definitely not any on my mother's side -- all of them came over from Germany and Norway sometime around the 1880s. Father's side, maybe, but I can't remember hearing of any.

 

I had ancestors on both sides at Gettysburg.

 

The Brits

 

To my knowledge, all of mine fought for the Yankee side although family legend has it that one branch of my family line (the Kemps) had Confederate sympathizers (the main branch of the family lived in Maryland and my ancestor had moved from there to Pittsburgh around 1829.

My director ancestors who fought and applicable battles and fates:

Max Heim. Great grandfather. Immigrated from Germany in 1857, fought in the Pennsylvania 74th. Was captured at Chancellorsburg (damn you, Stonewall Jackson.) Paroled. Fought at Gettysburg. Survived the war.

Manning M. Brockman. Pennsylvania 22nd Cavalry. Survived.

John F. Kemp. Pennsylvania 123 Infantry. Survived.

Indirect ancestors in the Civil War:

Patrick Harkin born Ireland. Pennsylvania 139 Infantry. Antietam. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville. Gettysburg. Wounded at Battle of Petersburg. Survived. (brother of my ancestor.)

George Harvey. Pa 2nd Heavy Artillery. Died at Andersonville.
Martin Harvey. (brother of George). Died at Murfreesburg, Tennessee
(they were brothers of my ancestor.)

Peter Krempel. Pennsylvania 139 Infantry. Antietam. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville. Gettysburg. Wounded. Survived. (cousin of my ancestor.)

 

None of my ancestors fought in the Civil War, as none of them were hear yet. It would still be 60 years until my great gandparents on my mother's side were good old fashioned Italian illegal immigrants. My fathers side I know little about in general as both of his parents were adopted when they were small children and never bothered to look into their biological past when they were alive.

 

So your "illegal" immigrant relatives never went though Ellis Island?

 

I have pedigree papers that would make me a member of the Daughters of Confederate Officers, Daughters of Confederate Soldiers, Daughters of the American Revolution and ... several other 'exclusive' clubs that require paperwork.

Unfortunately for my Grandmother, I've never been even remotely interested in belonging to any of that stuff.

 

My aunt looked it up many years ago (and unfortunately has long since passed away, so I can't ask her), but we did have one family member by the name of Johnson who fought. I'm going to assume he was Yankee, or she'd have never brought it up.

 

Nope. My maternal great great grandfather stowed away on a cargo ship that landed in New Haven, Connecticut where he disembarked. There was a large Italian neighborhood here at the time. He was a poor illiterate little bastard so I surmise he didn't really know the proper way to do it. I don't really know much more of the details, my maternal grandfather passed away when I was eight so I never got a chance to ask about any more details. All I know is he settled here, got married and so the family went.