A little bit late, but oh, well...

[A.T. Hagan]

I have cousins in the family who are big into geneology and have found good documentation about how many men in that part of the Hagan family we are descended from that were of military age at the time of the war. There were seventeen and we found records of military service of some of them, but haven't been able to document the rest. What's left of the Hagan farm sits along the route of march that Sherman took to reach Savannah and the sea which is why there are very few structures in the area that predate the war. They burnt them all. A fair part of the family nearly starved to death in the years immediately following.

I'm not sure about my mother's side of the family as I am not aware of anyone in the family into genealogy. I've personally taken the search of direct family descent back to the census of 1840 before Florida joined the union and we were here even then, but haven't searched out military records from the time. It was a large family even then so I'm sure we had some members serve.

The lasting after affects of that war continued even up into my lifetime, but hopefully will end there.

My wife's family is from New England and they go back to before the war as well. I'm pretty sure some of her ancestors met some of mine at Gettysburg. One day I'll take the time to document it.

In spite of what some people have tried to tell me I am not ashamed of my heritage but am proud of it. I do not think anyone should be ashamed of their heritage. It is what it is and cannot be changed. It's where we are going to that is important.

.....Alan.

 

[speckledhen]

I do not think anyone should be ashamed of their heritage. It is what it is and cannot be changed. It's where we are going to that is important.

There were atrocities perpetrated by both Union and Confederate soldiers in that war, but we are not them. "History is over, finished, learn from it and move on" is my attitude about most things. Our goal should be to move on to better things for ourselves.​

 

[pdsavage]

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Guess the south forgot how them and the north broke all the treaties with the Indians (for the politicaly correct native american) yet they still trusted the same goverment to keep its word....

 

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Guess the south forgot how them and the north broke all the treaties with the Indians (for the politicaly correct native american) yet they still trusted the same goverment to keep its word....

Good observation. Interestingly, the Cherokees and a number of other Indian tribes sided with the Confederacy. In fact, the Confederacy promised to recognize them as being a sovereign nation. Something you'll never hear about the Confederacy from most Establisment historians is that Article 1, Section 9 of the Confederate Constitution explicitly banned the slave trade. You'll also never hear about the numerous black Confederates, both slave and free.

It's odd, but even though I don't really know my ancestry that well, I am fiercely proud of my heritage. I actually take slams on the Confederacy very personally, and I have a very, very personal hatred of General Sherman and Abraham Lincoln. I get choked up when I read about Stonewall Jackson's death or the Surrender at Appomattox. Heck, my eyes are gettin' a little watery already. Am I insane, or do others feel this way as well?

HOIST THE COLORS!!!!!

"'Tis the Star-Spangled banner! O long may it wave,
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!"

 

[speckledhen]

This is an article with pictures of the various flags of Georgia. I personally like the looks of the Bonnie Blue Flag that some folks here fly over businesses and such, though I guess that technically, it was a secession flag.

http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/ga_flag.htm

The Georgia flag featuring the part of the Confederate battle flag you posted above was flown from 1956 to 2001. I liked that one much better than the current Ga flag, which I think is rather ugly myself.


Here is an interesting quote I found:

If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission, and offer my sword to the other side." --Ulysses S. Grant​

 

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I, personally, think that every Southern State should incorporate the Confederate battle flag. They should also have a really defiant motto along the lines of Virginia's "Sic semper tyrannis" or New Hampshire's "Live free or die." But that's just me.

I wonder how many folks would call me a racist for daring to suggest that?

 

[DAFox]

I'm "into" genealogy. I am a member of Ancestry.com and Footnote.com. Both of these offer free trials. Other paid subscription sites also offer free trials. There are free resourses, too: Rootsweb.com, Familysearch.org, Cindislist.com. Try putting an ancestor's name in a search engine like google and see what comes up.

I have many Confederate soldiers in my ancestry. My Dad's side was in the South from the early 1700's. The Revolutionary War soldiers in my background had descendents that fought for the Confederacy. I haven't found any Union soldiers from my Mom's side though.
I'm not related to any Generals. But, I do have POWs. My 3rd great grandfather spent most of the war as a prisoner. I have a letter he wrote, begging to be released because he was sick.

Whwn I was a kid we always had a Mason-Dixon Turkey for Thanksgiving. My Mom stuffed the north end of the turkey with her northern white bread dressing and the south end with my Dad's cornbread dressing.

Dale-Ann