03-24-2023, 07:54 PM
(03-24-2023, 04:35 PM)Dill Wrote: I'm a TRUE American, as my father's family fought with the Union (one is buried at Fredericksburg).
My mother's fought for the South, and owned slaves, two of whom followed them to Texas after the war.
Family on my mother's side still call me a "Yankee," which is right, because I was raised in the North
and would fight on the Union side should they try succession again.
I only know of one Civil War casualty in my family, and none of them fought in the conflict. The one casualty I know of was a traveling preacher who was shot by Confederates out of suspicion of him being a spy because he would preach a circuit that went into current day West Virginia as well as Pennsylvania.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
