On 7/9/14, 3:06 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:43:45 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 7/9/14, 12:39 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:10:27 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:22:00 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:43:35 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

One of my favorite bluegrass/Americana songs. It reminds me of my Great-Grandfather x3 (Confederate), My Great-Grandfather x3 and my Great-Uncle x2 (Union) and their hardships during the Civil War.

Enjoy!



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqp_rn9rdTw

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Nice.

I had a great great grandfather who died at Andersonville.

My wife's great grandfather was a Union 'doctor'. She found his discharge papers while looking
through piles of 'stuff' left by her mother.

The best we can tell, most of my ancestors were still in Europe during
the Civil War ... except possibly a few Cherokees (still undetermined)



Some of my wife's ancestors here, including the Cherokees, date back to
just after the Revolutionary War. All of my grandparents and great
uncles and aunts, as far as I know, were Europeans whose families
arrived between 1880 and 1920. My parents and my uncles were born in
Boston and Philly.

Some of my maternal grandmother's people may have been down there on
St George Island during the civil war but they were probably smugglers
;-)

That whole area of Southern Md was a hotbed of spies, smugglers and
confederate sympathizers. They were more closely aligned with Virginia
than the union.



I drove out to Pt. Lookout Park last month with my father in law. I
hadn't driven out there in probably a decade. There's a toll gate now,
and it cost a few bucks to get in...but at least the money is being
spent out there making modest improvements to the site. Saw a couple of
guys fishing off the land there and looked in their buckets...they were
catching decent-sized croakers.

The drive out there, no matter which route you take (we drove out via
Leonardtown), is still very nice and rural.

--
Republicans . . . the anti-immigrant, anti-contraception, anti-student,
anti-middle class, pro-impeachment party that shut down the government
last year for no reason.