Heard that before and just don't buy into it anymore. This is what you were replying to. Please for y benifit show me what you are defending against.

"Chase...I can't say that I have ancestors that I brag about who joined the Union; but according to several accounts that I have read over the years N.E. Georgia had many Union sympthizers. In fact there is a record of Governor Brown dispatching a unit of Georgia cavalry to put down unrest in the area. Dahlonega Georgia (Lumpkin County) was one of the areas mentioned. Several families living in this area relocated to some of the Northern States. Have seen no record of where any of these families furnished men to the Union Army.

I do have an ancestor of whom I am not proud. He either enlisted or was conscripted into a Ga. Militia unit. He deserted his first day in the unit and made his way from Georgia to the Washington, D.C. area and surrendered to the Provest Marshall. The last entry on his service record indicates that he deserted to the Yankees.

Have not reseached the Union Prison records that exist to determine if he remained in prison or elected to serve in the Union Army.

Do not know of any specific individual who moved from the N.E. Ga. mountain area to a Union State but logic would indicate that some of the males probably enlisted into the Union Army."

If you want us to respect you as a honest researcher, you also have to give us respect.

GP