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First, in another posting I read earlier tonite, but couldn't figure out how to respond to, there was a comment about people not knowing anything about their southern history. Tain't their fault, if the history books only have 4 pages on the War of the Northern Aggression and most of that is devoted to convincing children that slavery was the one and only reason/cause for the CW.

As a dyed-in-the-wool,southern-born, southern-bred Rebel who has always loved the romance of the Southern Cause, guess what it did to me to learn(or realize) that my 2Gtgrandfather, David Pierpont MORGAN,I, was a Unionist. He was considered a deserter/traitor by the CSA, a Patriot by the USA. For the duration of the War, he fought with William White's Band of raiders, actively disrupting various activities of the CSA throughout Fl.,Al., and Ga. It seems that there were several bands of raiders, including the Ward Raiders, who operated loosely together and separately, whichever was needed. They also were in constant contact with the Union Blockaders off the coast of Fl and Al, who gave them provisions and munitions.
He was inducted into the 2nd Fl. Cavalry, USA, in the spring of 1864, at Cedar KEy, Fl., and died in October, of scurvy. Conditions at Cedar Key were terrible because of the over-crowding. Many of the Unionists had managed to get their families there for protection from the CSA. A Major Cam(p)field, CSA, of Alabama, was sent to clean out that nest of vipers in Lafayette and Taylor Counties, Fl.
My 2gtgrandmother, with 7 children,(the eldest, Richard Thomas, 16, was in the CSA), had her home burned and all her livestock, etc., driven off or killed. She had buried some cured meat under the house to hide it, and that was what she and the children had to live on for a time.
Major Campfield was loading women and children of even suspected Unionists into wagons and carrying them to Tallahassee to Camp 6, where they were held for some time. The governor finally released them after receiving a letter from William White's wife, asking to be allowed to rejoin her husband, at Cedar Key.
I think I understand, in part, why Papa Dave chose the route he did. His father, Richard, was a Rev. Soldier and Papa Dave couldn't fight against the nation his father had fought so valiantly to bring into being. Gramma was a GIBSON descendant and her grandfather and an uncle had fought with Francis Marion.
Actually, I'm just very proud to be a descendant of men who fought for their beliefs, whatever they were. Bottom line, I'm proud to be an American.