Dugger
Banned
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2011
- Location
- Southern Ohio
Anyone got any good Civil War fraternization stories handed down to them bout their ancestors Civil War service? Naturally I got a good one or I would not have started this!
I have mentioned her before on here. My Great Grandma lived to be 98 and was born in 1858. She died when I was 7. She remembered the war. She told me a story bout her brother who was home on leave here in S Ohio at Christmas 1863. He had re-upped I guess and got that month long pass for doing so. He was at Vicksburg, according to what he told her, and fell asleep on nightime sentry duty. He got woken up by someone poking him in the ribs with a bayonet. He looked up and it was a Rebel soldier who simply said, " Better stay awake Yank!" and walked away. She also said he turned, came back briefly, and asked her brother, now WIDE awake, if he had any coffee. He said no and the Reb walked away. Cool. The details she remembered from his account are fascinating. A lot of this went on at Vicksburg as the lines were very close to one another. She is also the one who told me bout being hid in the woods with the horses by her father when Morgan came tru this region. She was still very vivid bout that memory in her old age. Really scared her as she was only bout 5 or 6. She was blind when I was a boy due to cateracts and bedridden but her mind was, as they say bout some who get that far, still sharp as a tack. Called me Dougie Boy.
You can, of course, tell any good story bout fraternization....don't have to have been an ancestor. Fraternization during the Civil War has always fascinated me.
I have mentioned her before on here. My Great Grandma lived to be 98 and was born in 1858. She died when I was 7. She remembered the war. She told me a story bout her brother who was home on leave here in S Ohio at Christmas 1863. He had re-upped I guess and got that month long pass for doing so. He was at Vicksburg, according to what he told her, and fell asleep on nightime sentry duty. He got woken up by someone poking him in the ribs with a bayonet. He looked up and it was a Rebel soldier who simply said, " Better stay awake Yank!" and walked away. She also said he turned, came back briefly, and asked her brother, now WIDE awake, if he had any coffee. He said no and the Reb walked away. Cool. The details she remembered from his account are fascinating. A lot of this went on at Vicksburg as the lines were very close to one another. She is also the one who told me bout being hid in the woods with the horses by her father when Morgan came tru this region. She was still very vivid bout that memory in her old age. Really scared her as she was only bout 5 or 6. She was blind when I was a boy due to cateracts and bedridden but her mind was, as they say bout some who get that far, still sharp as a tack. Called me Dougie Boy.
You can, of course, tell any good story bout fraternization....don't have to have been an ancestor. Fraternization during the Civil War has always fascinated me.