Jerry: My Great Grandfather Fleming, about whom I have inquired elsewhere on this board was from Missouri and Texas, but his daughter in law (my grandmother) Frances Kyle, was from Ohio, and definitely a yankee, and from a family of Scottish Covenanters, who were abolitionists I'm sure, and many of them fought in all of the old wars (ie, French and Indian; Revolutionary; War of 1812; Civil War (some even participated in the underground railroad..); and Spanish American War. When they each introduced their intendeds to their respective families, my Great Grandfather Fleming's comment to his son was, that his Frances was a fine woman, "but did you have to marry a yank!???". She experienced the same: "Claude is a nice man, but Frances, did you have to marry a rebel!??" Like many, many descendants of civil war veterans, I had family fighting on both sides (make that three sides if you count my Cherokee ancestors). In some cases, they opposed each other in battle; some had assisted in removing my ancestors from their ancestral home in North Carolina along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, and subsequently received some of the land offered by lottery to the whites prior to the war. It seems so strange to find that in several cases they later married into the very same families. One thing about it, one has to be very honest in his or her assessment of the parts they played in history, or else refrain from any of it, because you could be talking bad about your own! Pursuing the family history has expanded my views on how we became the people and the nation we are today. Some good, some bad, some in between -just like it has been since time began. Only now I can put names to a few of them and see the family likenesses in our faces.. You are fortunate to know where yours are. I'm still looking. Particularly for my great grandmother who died in Texas. Thanks for your response. My guess is our GG Grandfather's were in many of the same battles..