Hi, I was just wondering if you have any relation, a Henry Rushing. Here's a part from my g Aunt Elizabeth's biography of Mary Eliza Stone Jordan on the Confederate soldiers during that part of the war. "Although the southerners had been taught to dispise and dread the Yankee soldiers, my Mother says that the Confederate soldiers did more damage to the citizens than did the Federal soldiers. They came to my father's home where mother was living on the farm with the slaves, and ordered her to roll the cotton out so they could burn it and said if she did not they would burn the gin. They appropriated everything in sight. They would shoot the chickens and take the food off the table. On one occasion, they stole the food hidden by my Mother for the baby in the sugar bowl. Those who remained suffered more. Mrs. Henry Rushing, a relative by marriage, said that they buried their meat, lard and grain, and sent the oldest son, Henry, off to the woods with the horses when the southern soldiers were approaching. The soldiers even took the quilts, blankets and counterpanes out to the barn and filled them with wheat, corn and other grains to be taken away. These Confederate soldiers maintained that they were fighting for the Confederacy and that they had a right to take what they wanted." Thanks, Kathryn