This is a fun thread. I wonder if anyone here will be connected?
That would be very cool to see. With that in mind, here are mine, by state and regiment: 5 are direct grandfathers, 21 uncles, 10 cousins. Oddly, I have found no ancestors who fought in either WWI or WWII.
3rd Alabama Inf - Watters, Larkin (also 51st AL Cav)
18th Alabama Inf, Co. F - Watters, 'William' Grissom, died in battle of Jonesboro, GA 1864
51st Alabama Cav (Partisan Rangers), Co. F - Watters, Larkin (also, 3rd AL inf)
3rd Georgia Cav, Co. E - Sinclair, John L, prisoner Cripple Creek, TN
1st Louisiana Hvy Artillery, Co. F - Rachal, Clement 'Clabe' - captured Vicksburg
8th Louisiana Hvy Artillery, Co. B - Forrest, Francis Marion - captured Vicksburg (also 3rd LA Cav Partisan Rangers)
2nd Louisiana Inf, Co. C - Buckley, John O, wounded Malvern Hill, VA, captured Gettysburg
2nd Louisiana Inf, Co. C - Buckley, Albert T, wounded Payne's Farm, VA
12th Louisiana Inf, Co. C - Buckley, Joseph S 'Joe', died Columbus, KY 1861
16th Louisiana Inf, Co. B & D - Schilling, Peter Amady
16th Louisiana Inf, Co. B - Forrest, Richard
16th Louisiana Inf, Co. B - Schilling, James Jeffrey
16th Louisiana Inf, Co. B - Forrest, James M, died of disease Tunnel Hill, Ga 1863
25th Louisiana Inf, Co. E - Edwards, John, died disease Oxford, MS 1862
25th Louisiana Inf, Co. E - Watters, Henry Britain
25th Louisiana Inf, Co. E - Edwards, Thomas Larkin, died of wounds Murfreesboro,TN 1863
26th Louisiana Inf, Co. A - Basco, Lorant Noel
26th Louisiana Inf, Co. A - Basco, Thomas
26th Louisiana Inf, Co. A - Basco, Dionysium 'Denny', flesh wound battle of Mansfield
31st Louisiana Inf, Co. I - Barron, Ebenezer Jackson
Louisiana Consolidated Crescent Reg. Inf, Co. G - Basco, Jean Baptiste, died diahrrea Pineville, LA hospital 1864
Louisiana Consolidated Crescent Reg. Inf, Co. G - Basco, Michel Adajot, died dysentery Alexandria, LA hospital 1864
2nd Louisiana Cav (Partisan Rangers), Co. D - Coutee, Severin
2nd Louisiana Cav (Partisan Rangers), Co. D - Coutee, Sepherin, died of varialoid 1864
9th Batt. 3rd Louisiana Cav (Wingfield's Partisan Rangers), Co. B - Forrest, Francis Marion (also 8th LA Hvy Art)
9th Batt. 3rd Louisiana Cav (Wingfield's Partisan Rangers), Co. C - Schilling, Francis Marion
9th Batt. 3rd Louisiana Cav (Wingfield's Partisan Rangers), Co. C - Schilling, Dennis
9th Batt. 3rd Louisiana Cav (Wingfield's Partisan Rangers), Co. C - Schilling, Esco 'Martin'
9th Batt. 3rd Louisiana Cav (Wingfield's Partisan Rangers), Co. C - Schilling, Valzain
13th Louisiana Cav (Partisan Rangers), Co. C - Hollis, Darrell Wolf
Louisiana Red River Sharpshooters Cav, Co. C - Rachal (Monette), Narcisse
Louisiana Reserve Corps Cav - Edwards, 'James' Henry
Louisiana Claiborne Reg (Militia), Co. A - Edwards, 'Miller' Bledsoe
16th Mississippi Inf, Co. E - Forrest, Thomas Jefferson, wounded Petersburg, VA
16th Mississippi Inf, Co. E - Forrest, Benjamin Franklin, (also 33rd MS Inf, Co E)
33rd Mississippi Inf, Co. B - Forrest, Matthew Bishop, died chronic bronchitis 1865
33rd Mississippi Inf, Co. B - Forrest, Benjamin Franklin (also 16th MS Inf, Co. E)
7th Texas Inf, Co. A - Watters, John William, wounded Franklin, TN, captured and died Nashville, TN
Stories...So far I have only thoroughly researched the surnames Forrest, Edwards and Watters. H.B. Watters wrote an amazing biography that described finding his dying brother after the battle of Franklin. Watters lived with my g-g-g-grandfather, Miller Edwards (his father-in-law), for a while. He went to war with Edwards' brother John and son Larkin, both who died during the war. Miller apparently tried to locate his son after the battle of Murfreesboro, but arrived after he had already died. This was my mother's side.
M.B. Forrest was Francis Marion Forrest's father and my g-g-g-grandfather (Marion was my g-g-grandfather). The other Forrests I mention were M.B.'s nephews. The families all lived on the Louisiana/Mississippi border within a few miles of each other. I have written a short biography of Francis Marion, which also includes some conjecture that makes sense. Marion's 10" Columbiad helped defend Vicksburg's waterfront and he later fought with Wingfield's Partisan Rangers. Marion Forrest grew up with the Schilling boys who joined up with Wingfield before him. His aunt Elizabeth had married the Schilling boys' father Henry and Marion was sent to live with them when he was very young. He was living with his father again when war broke out and apparently found his way home to be with his father when his father died of bronchitis just before the end of the war. This was my father's side.
My next project is the Bascos and Rachals, most of who fought at the Siege of Vicksburg. I have documentation positively linking them to the Civil War, but very little detail as to their involvement. They were a very private group of relations on my father's side, and I never really got to know their descendants very well, other than my Grandmother and her siblings, who were all Rachals.
My g-grandmother was a Buckley - another group that we know little about.