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To: ManyMoose who wrote (184614)	10/15/2009 3:31:16 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Dave, you said something privately that in a way I will respond to here. I don't read what you or Ish or Josh or others here say in other places. Where I post, I try to curb my tongue from any rude thing, but I do realize it is of a different' bent. but... I learned lately even deeper what this all means. I think. I've just learned of my mountain/holler relatives who fought for the union. And of a mother who had a husband and son fighting for the union, and a son conscripted (yes, mostly my relatives were poor and gave a frig about the rich man's war and only went when conscripted) to fight for the conferates. so she was left with many young children and a farm to tend, hoping it not burned by either union or confederates who knew her beliefs. but this woman knew... her husband might well stand face to face with their son on the battlefield. we can not do that now. I know what it cost my mountain people. what it still costs them well over a hundrend years later when for most of you the 'civil war' is but tales of this or that. we can not do it anymore. the people of these hills of alabama gave all to support the union, even when the plantation owners of the south sent people to kill them and burn their fields. they are my people. this is my union.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (184614)	10/15/2009 2:26:00 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

What I love most are the stories about everyday man and/or woman... Your friend Mr. Bud seems to have done many, many wonderful things with his life. I've wanted to know more about the people who came before me, for WHO they really were, and WHAT influenced the way they did things in their every day life. We all have been given life. We all have joys and obstacles along the way, and so my question has always been "what did they do with them".... For instance, I have a 2 Great Uncle who died when he was 24, unmarried, and no children. He wrote a series of 7 letters to his sister (my gggrandmother) on why he decided to "put down his plow, and join the Union" which was engaged in the Civil War. He did it because he was very afraid that we wouldn't have a country, if the Union didn't win the war. He was homesteading land in Iowa and wanted to have a good life for himself, and someday a family. The letters show he was an excellent writer (today we would say he was homeschooled) and told of the places he was when he told what was happening. In a couple of cases, you can almost feel the bullets whizzing by... Because of the vast amount of info now on internet, I know now he was badly wounded in both shoulders in the battle of Pleasant Hill, LA, was taken by the Confederates as a POW. The Union lost more than 750 men on April 9, 1864, the day he was wounded. He died of his wounds on May 9, 1864 (no medicine neither antibiotics, nor pain killers) and certainly in less than sanitary conditions. I still don't know where he is buried, and am trying to find that out. The Confederates took some of the POW's to Tyler, Texas, and left some there in LA....I suspect that he may still be there in LA, but don't know for sure. Since he didn't have children, and no one else right now cares, I feel it's up to me to find out.