COPPERHEADS !

[Willis]

Just wonder how many are out there ?
 
My ancestor that participated in "The War" was captured and died as a POW at Camp Salmon P. Chase ,Columbus OH, from dysentery caused by the unsanitary conditions and poor diet.
 
 He rode with Company A ,3rd Battalion ,Kentucky Mounted Rifles, an attachment of John Hunt Morgans command. This fact is a little ironic  as I now live in the state, county and town in which he raided.
 
He was a blacksmith by trade from the area of Falmouth KY , having southern ties made him a target for night riders,shooting through the walls of his home endangering his family and killing his livestock ,so he decided to "take the war to the north" joining the CSA at Monticello KY, when he heard Morgan had formed a mounted unit.
 
Morgans "Great Raid" crossed the Ohio River at Brandenburg KY aboard two commandeered steamers, burning one  and into Indiana, skirmishing with home guards, sacking and burning as it ran through Indiana to the IN OH state line above and west of Cincinatti, then on toward WV,where the largest part of the unit was eventually captured crossing the Ohio back into KY.
 
Just wondering how many of you KY ,Southern IN, IL ,boys have southern ties and would like to hear your stories.
 

[Mad Trapper]

I was born and raised in McDowell county WV.
My Grandparents were born and raised in Eastern KY and I now live in southeast KY.
I remember my Grandfather telling me his Grandfather was a Confederate Officer and his Grandmother was full blood Cherokee, her name was America.
My Grandmother told me her Mother was a Booth.
I wish I knew more but thats it for now.
Ive always been afraid to look up the Booth ancestry, afraid of punishment from what my Ancester has done.

[Willis]

I was begining to wonder if anyone else was out there!
My wifes kin hail from Middlesboro,most worked the coal mines or ran shine. Her gg grandmother was NC Cherokee, moved out to the Oklahoma territories after the CW.
 
 

[Mad Trapper]

I worked the mines in the 70s
My Grandfather worked the mines in the 30s, 40s and part of the 50s.
My Great Grandfather worked the mines at the turn of the century.
I was told by a friend who is a CW reenactor, that many confederate officers took Cherokee wives because the Cherokee were ally with the Confederacy

[Ranger99]

well. . .thank you!
i got an education.
i'd never heard that term used
before that i can remember.
maybe because all my ancestors
were from the various southern states.
had to look it up.