Absolutely amazing. I am a direct decendent of John Richards who was killed by Confederate Home Guards in Cherokee County near Conn's Creek Baptist Church. His son Joseph, my great great grandfather, according to family history, joined Sherman's army as a cattle driver. (Records are sketchy for sure.) Anyway, on my dad's mom's side of the family, my great great grandfather James Madison Ellis joined the 10th TN Cavalry Union. He was from Gilmer County. If you don't mind, and if you would like to do so, do a video on the Battle of Bucktown. It is the only true battle of the Civil War fought in Gilmer County. All the guys participating were Georgia boys.
On the tomb marker the first man's last name was Nix. I have a friend named Brian Nix in Blairsville Georgia. He has a son named Kolbe who is a re-enactor in a Union Army uniform. Now I wonder if he does so because his ancestors were Unionists.
One of the most interesting historical thing in the Civil War the Southern unionism. The effect was to hold 4 slavery system states in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland) a new state as West Virginia and 100 000 white unionist soldiers from the Confederacy. The coloured Southern unionist soldiers and the Southern white unionist soldiers assisted to stop the bleedy war earlier. Important 5 soldiers died in illnessess in the campsites and only 3 soldiers died in battles!
My GG Grandfather, Peter Lance and his son, my Great Grandfather James Lance were in the 5th Tennessee, Mounted Infantry USA. James was captured by Confederate guerrillas and was going to be killed. However, he escaped after stealing a horse.
I think the prounionism was a little underground thing after the Civil War, The KKK and other proconfederate associations in South put into the shadow except for East Tenneessee, where the prounionist area was too big for the minimalization. East Tenneesse named a town after rear admiral Farragut in the XXth Century. West Tenneessee had some prounionist counties too and a young Tenneesseean man thought his ancestor fouigh in a Confedeacy Tenneessee cavalry regiment and his surprise his ancestor fought in a same number prounionist Tenneessee cavalry regiment. Jones county Mississipi was discovered by Hollywood but the fact Jones county as Winston county in Alabama were both strong unionists from the first day of the Confederacy!
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Absolutely amazing. I am a direct decendent of John Richards who was killed by Confederate Home Guards in Cherokee County near Conn's Creek Baptist Church. His son Joseph, my great great grandfather, according to family history, joined Sherman's army as a cattle driver. (Records are sketchy for sure.) Anyway, on my dad's mom's side of the family, my great great grandfather James Madison Ellis joined the 10th TN Cavalry Union. He was from Gilmer County.
If you don't mind, and if you would like to do so, do a video on the Battle of Bucktown. It is the only true battle of the Civil War fought in Gilmer County. All the guys participating were Georgia boys.
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On the tomb marker the first man's last name was Nix. I have a friend named Brian Nix in Blairsville Georgia. He has a son named Kolbe who is a re-enactor in a Union Army uniform. Now I wonder if he does so because his ancestors were Unionists.
Actually, I forgot something, Berean Baptist Church in Gilmer County has several Union men buried in its cemetery.
One of the most interesting historical thing in the Civil War the Southern unionism. The effect was to hold 4 slavery system states in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland) a new state as West Virginia and 100 000 white unionist soldiers from the Confederacy. The coloured Southern unionist soldiers and the Southern white unionist soldiers assisted to stop the bleedy war earlier. Important 5 soldiers died in illnessess in the campsites and only 3 soldiers died in battles!
My GG Grandfather, Peter Lance and his son, my Great Grandfather James Lance were in the 5th Tennessee, Mounted Infantry USA. James was captured by Confederate guerrillas and was going to be killed. However, he escaped after stealing a horse.
I think the prounionism was a little underground thing after the Civil War, The KKK and other proconfederate associations in South put into the shadow except for East Tenneessee, where the prounionist area was too big for the minimalization. East Tenneesse named a town after rear admiral Farragut in the XXth Century. West Tenneessee had some prounionist counties too and a young Tenneesseean man thought his ancestor fouigh in a Confedeacy Tenneessee cavalry regiment and his surprise his ancestor fought in a same number prounionist Tenneessee cavalry regiment. Jones county Mississipi was discovered by Hollywood but the fact Jones county as Winston county in Alabama were both strong unionists from the first day of the Confederacy!