Growing up I heard the story about my great-grandfather who had died I believe when my father was a baby that he had fought on both sides of Civil War. He was born and raised in what is now West Virginia, near Parkersburg, and when the war started, he got on his horse and joined a Confederate militia group and fought at Shiloh Church. The Confederates called it Shiloh Church, not Shiloh.
He was captured and taken to a prison camp in Ohio. His father and brother came and paroled him on condition that he would join the Union army which he did. He then fought at Cedar Creek, the battle in Virginia which may have helped Lincoln get elected. General Sheridan on his black horse was the subject of a poem called Sheridan’s Ride.
That is an amazing story. Thanks for sharing. I have ancestors from different families who fought on both sides. But for one man to fight on both sides is really quite amazing.