Just supports what I have previously stated about being a terrible loss.
In my family's oral history of the Adams family and north Georgia, the story goes that Aunt Mary, a sister to
Joe B. Adams, who was still a child had been told by her dad, a CSA soldier who was off at war, that whatever
she did not to let the Union Army take his horse.
So when the Yankee soldier came to claim it, she told him no, and the man replied, then I will have to shoot
it. Aunt Mary's reply was then he would have to kill the horse because she had to obey her father.
The Union soldier then turned and left without taking or killing the horse while Aunt Mary was considered a hero
for saving the horse. Still after all this time you have to wonder what motivated the man, was it compassion or
did he relate to his own children at home.
When the Civil War ended the Rodgers/Adams family left north Georgia and moved to the Cleveland County,
Arkansas area, prior to moving on to England, in Lonoke County, Arkansas.
Thanks for the update Doyle.