"Stan you know a lot about your ancestors service in the war. Where they fought, captured, what regiment they were in. But let me ask you this? Do you know the names of any men they killed? I know the names of the men my ancestors killed. Do you know the names of the men who killed your ancestors. I know the names of the men who killed my ancestors. Would you recognize a descendant of the men who killed your family member if you met them on the street? Well Stan, I would. It's what happens when your people come from an isolated mountain region where views are split on the Civil War."

No, Cump, I don't. My GGF died at Seven Pines, but I think it was of disease, as he was in hospital, and is buried in Richmond. My great uncles both survived the war, though they were both captured. They were in the ANV, in Longstreet's Corps, and fought in about twenty major battles, from Gaines' Mill to Spotsylvania and Cedar Creek. They took care of business, but didn't take names. The war they fought was different from the one your anscetors went through. My wife's family was from eastern Kentucky on her dad's side, but I think his folks moved from West Virginia after the war. I'd guess some of them would know what you mean, but I don't have any information on them. One of them left because he was suspected of knowing details of a killing, but was not involved in it. He became a miner and died of black lung. Stan