Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know
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A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator calls the “skipped history” of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army. For me, the emerging revisionist account of the conflict is personal. I have discovered the story of a great-great-grandfather who was threatened with hanging as a “damned old Lincolnite” by his neighbors in the Alabama mountains.
@Coctaanatis Thanks for the read!
I'm in MO, Dad's family is from the Ozarks.
It was a surprise to go back thru family history and find a great-great-great-grandfather who was born in MO and died in MS. Battle of Vicksburg. He died the day after the battle (Jul 5, 1863). He was 39.
He'd left his family in MO and gone to IL to enlist in the 120th. My great-great grandmother was his oldest daughter, and she was 5 when he was killed.
We had both Confederate and Union fighters in the family.