Civil War: Which side where your ancestors on?

[royalfan5]

If I didn't include your option in the poll, just write it in.

[Lott's Bandana]

Both

[The Maestro]

My relatives from 1861 never sent me an IM to tell me...

[olevetonahill]

Both
My Great Granpa is Buried over in Arkysaw . he was with the 4th Infantry
one of My Other Great Granpas is Buried somewhere In Ga. . He was a Blue belly

[Lott's Bandana]

19th Pennsylvania Calvary Captain (I have same name)
1st North Carolina Regulars Private (my brother has his name)

Always wondered if these guys faced each other in the same battle.

[King Crimson]

both: buncha rebs and one who fought for the union at Gettysburg and made his way to what was to become Oklahoma Territory.

[SCOUT]

Irish Republican Brotherhood starting at the Post Office in 1916. Compatriot of Michael Collins and the cause of Irish independence until Michael's assasination at Bael na Blath in 1922. Grandpa decided to head for the states after that.

[Veritas]

Switzerland, yo.

[Viking Kitten]

My ancestors were too busy raping and pillaging on foreign shores to fight amongst themselves.

[Viking Kitten]

And Hutu and Tutsi should be on this poll.

[Lott's Bandana]

1682

My peeps been here so long I could almost have my own casino!

[royalfan5]

And Hutu and Tutsi should be on this poll.

That will be in the who did your ancestors slaughter poll.

[Viking Kitten]

Speaking of House of York, since Richard III was a total dick, do you suppose that's where that nickname comes from?

[Lott's Bandana]

I was in York once. Didn't see any dicks.

Bigass church tho.

[Curly Bill]

Speaking of House of York, since Richard III was a total dick, do you suppose that's where that nickname comes from?

Without question. ;)

[Big Red Ron]

Eh, I am a member of the Choctaw Tribe, who owned slaves and fought for the confederacy. Betcha, you didn't know that the "Five Civilized tribes" were slave owners. I guess that made 'em civilized. ;)

[soonerscuba]

Loyalist/Unionist. Pretty small percentage of those in country. My ancestors would probably oust me because of hatred of the color orange, indifference to insidious Catholic plots, and distaste for monarchy.

[Lott's Bandana]

Loyalist/Unionist. Pretty small percentage of those in country. My ancestors would probably oust me because of hatred of the color orange, indifference to insidious Catholic plots, and distaste for monarchy.

I freakin LOVE Scotch/Irish history posts!!

[Penguin]

Man, the British really missed their chance to take back the colonies.



Take 'em while they're divided, damn it!!!!!

[Scott D]

On the side that wasn't free but was then free but still ended up sharecropping for awhile.

[Half a Hundred]

I've heard it said before that the South's greatest bane was not the North, but Sir Walter Scott. Food for thought.

[Jimminy Crimson]

Republic of Iraq

[SoonerKnight]

family from tenn

[reevie]

I had a Major in the 9th Tenn. Army

[Harry Beanbag]

I had several rebel ancestors, no Yankees that I know of.

[MrJimBeam]

Two great great great uncles, both from Missouri. One fought for the confederacy, one to preserve the Union. Neither died in the war.

[TUSooner]

Both

Yeah. Well, sorta. I heard that the "union" guy (or one of them) was a draft dodger, in Ohio I think. The family hid him when the "recruiters" came looking for him.

[Big Red Ron]

Republic of Iraq
heh

[Frozen Sooner]

Half of the family was in the Ohio Sharpshooters. The other half was over in Germany.

[SoonerInKCMO]

Where's the "Don't know and don't care because of all of the divorces/re-marries/step-kids/adoptions/etc. in the family make the whole thing moot." option?

[Big Red Ron]

Where's the "Don't know and don't care because of all of the divorces/re-marries/step-kids/adoptions/etc. in the family make the whole thing moot." option?
Well, since you're in KC, you're a slaver. Suck it slaver. :D

[FaninAma]

Distant cousins drated and died fighting for the North. Several O'Grady's listed at Trophy Point on the Antietam & Bull Run battle monuments in West Point,NY..

Just an example of how Lincoln and the Northern industrialists persecuted the war on the backs of poor Northern immigrants.

Thanks for asking, though.

[shaun4411]

my ancestors were pro King Ludgwig and pilgrimmaged to Hohenschwangau and Oeberommergrau

[StoopTroup]

Mine were to drunk to remember who was even fighting.

[Flagstaffsooner]

And thats War Between the States.

Great grandfather. Searcys Sharpshooters, 1st Misourri Mounted Rifles.

[Oldnslo]

Our branch of the family Weintraub made it to the New World promply upon the ending of WW1.

[Sooner Schemer]

And thats War Between the States.I thought it was War of Northern Aggression.

And my answer is: both.

[soonerhubs]

Some were Gray while my Mother's side was located in the Rocky Mountains while the war went on.

[bluedogok]

Mine were still in Europe, Germany and Norway.