You were the one who brought up secession in a discussion I was having with Doyle about Lafayette. In 1861 Kentucky had declared neutrality when your Confedercy decided to leave the Union. My 3x g grandfather was 60, he was married to his second wife, she was 30. On their way back from the store near Isom in Letcher County, they were stopped by the "State Milita", pro-Confederate forces. James Carmack only wanted to work his land and mind his own affairs. The State Milita members shot him and his slave dead for the few supplies in his wagon. They then gang raped his wife on a dirt wagon path. She would lose her mind and live with her step-son Virgil. One year later she would kill herself. James' family would then flock to the pro-Unionist "Home Guard". I only wish that they had killed every member of that State Militia unit. Slowly. NO Apolodies, Stephen. Not now, not ever.

Martin Carmack