How Many Members Have Ancestors Who Were Klansmen, Know Nothings, or Draft Rioters?

Pat Young

Brev. Brig. Gen'l
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On the few occasions when I have had the opportunity to speak about immigrants in the Civil War at least a few folks come up to me to tell me that someone in their family fought in the war. I observed a few years ago after one presentation that no one ever came up to tell me that an ancestors was a Klansman, a Know Nothing, or had participated in the 1863 Draft Riot.

Anyone here have someone who fits that bill in their family history? If so how does your family process that fact and make sense of it?
 
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