My great and great great father did
Great uncle killed at lookout mountain on horseback....odd huh
My wife’s gg uncle brig gen Barksdale killed Gettysburg
Another gg grandfather serve Boylston cavalry Miss as a cobbler and farrier first and dragoon later starting st age 14
I’m a descendent of Pocahontas and multiple branches of FFV
Byrd
Rolfe
Bolling
Wade
Hopkins
All my family branches have been in Mississippi as early as 1780s in what became Adams county whilst others after the Dancing Rabbit treaty early 1800s
My gggg grandmother was rumored to be the illegitimate daughter of William Dunbar of. Natchez aristocracy born by his Irish housegirl and “adopted” by my gggg grandpa who had over half a dozen sons and grandsons fight for the CSA
I could write a book on it literally
I’m qualified to speak for Dixie
“My wife’s gg uncle brig gen Barksdale killed Gettysburg”
My g-grandfather’s oldest brother was there with him in the 13th Mississippi. Killed in the same charge through The Peach Orchard. About 22 yrs old.
The family had settled in Lauderdale County after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. The log house that they built circa 1840 still stands, that property belongs to some of my cousins.
I had about a dozen ancestors in the Revolutionary War, mostly militia, but only two CSA ancestors that I know of.
My early Jamestown ancestors surely must have known wardaddy’s- Wm Powell and Wm Parker are on the list of ‘Ancient Planters’ so they were there nearly from the start.
“I could write a book on it literally. I’m qualified to speak for Dixie”
Do it.