Hello everybody!I have always had deep interest in the civil war and have been somewhat of a confederate sympathiser(Go Gray,Go Gray).Like alot of people Ive been doin my homework on my family tree which has given some favorable and unfavorable results.The farest back I could go was having realatives that came over on the Mayflower.Had one realative hung for robbin trains Distant kin to Jesse James. Had another not so distant realative high up in the Ku Klux Klan(great great grand father) Two great aunts that were nuns. Ok ill quit ramblin. Once again hello everybody!
Welcome to the board and thanks for sharing some of the history of your family tree. My own research has shown a circus carney and a cattle rustler amongst the roses.
Join in on the threads you find interesting. Always good to have another viewpoint.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
WElcome, I too have had some interesting revelations in my family trial. One leg of the family was founded by a Hessian soldier captured by Washington after he crossed the Delaware... Another came over after WWI w/ nothing more than his Austrain Army kit and a lot of ambition. Hope you enjoy yourself.
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
Mouthofthesouth,
May I extend my welcome to you upon your entrance to this board.
By and large, there are some very interesting people who frequent this arena, some are tolerant of your views, some will do everything in their power to prove you wrong, and that in itself, is good, but since you are of the Southern persuasion, then you are already one step in the wrong direction. Be prepared. Never, but never, let them brow beat into submission, to seeing their point of view. They will point to their 'historians' as being the most correct, and yours?......Well, let's just wait and see what they will tell you. Good luck, sir. May you do your ancestors proud. Who cares if you had some black sheep in your family, I have, and so has most everyone else, at one time or another.
Stand by your guns, and stand up for your beliefs.
Welcome, mouth. Always good to have another CW buff aboard, no matter the persuasion. You'll see you will be joining a goodly number of 'mouths' from the South, who do their ancestors proud. With great aunts as nuns, I see you can't be all bad . Jump right in and enjoy.
Hello Lt. Newbe, welcome to the circus. I'm a descendant of Stephen, Constance and Giles Hopkins of the Plymouth Colony and would be interested in your link! I say this simply to illustrate that whatever a man's origins, he can correct the condition. I'm a Southerner in my soul, born in North Carolina. That likely ain't going to change.
So I guess it's true then, that "We cannot escape history", especially our own.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Welcome to the forum MouthoftheSouth. I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather fled the motherland because he was wanted by the law. My father was a jailbird. My brother gets out in a few years and they're still trying to get me for all those outstanding warrants. Other than that, we're pretty involved with law enforcement.
Many thanks everybody!I just got done watchin the history channels doc on the confederates coming up with the first iron battle ship.Talkin about the confederates ramming and shooting apart the unions wooden ships and transports of the coast of Virginia Gosh I just loved watchin that stuff.I would have done my rebel yell if my wifes mother wasnt visiting during the show.She could have been a union colonel(my mother in law)Hehehehehe. Thanks again everybody for the friendly welcome!
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Distant kin to Jesse James. Had another not so distant realative high up in the Ku Klux Klan(great great grand father)
Two great aunts that were nuns. Ok ill quit ramblin.
. Jump right in and enjoy.
Gosh I just loved watchin that stuff.I would have done my rebel yell if my wifes mother wasnt visiting during the show.She could have been a union colonel(my mother in law)Hehehehehe.
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