I am working on the genealogy of a northern friend who wanted to know his origins. He is very Irish in looks and speech hailing from the city of Philidelphia, Penn. His ancestors are 90% recent immigrants in the mid to late 19th century from Germany, England, and Ireland. He has a few that served in some Pennsylvania Infantry units during the war. You would never think with his family history to find a shred of Confederate sympathies but was I wrong. One family link on his mother's line originates (they thought England) from Virginia. He is a direct descendent of William Leathers who's grandsons would serve under Robert E. Lee. Several of his cousins were casualties of Pickett Charge at Gettysburg, a place he had visited as a tourist but never knowing his ties to this place. He is near 80 now and still learning of his families past.