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[Deadmeat1471]

Got any? say so and which side/s regiment etc I'm British and have none, but as some of you know i'm interested and study the Civil War.

I'll list them all here and find a war record of the unit (for my own interest).

[Euld]

Not sure if anyone in my ancestry took part in the Civil War, much less which regiment they would have been in.  And my family is pretty heavy into our genealogy.  Of course, I come from a Pacific northwest family, so I wonder if we were too busy logging it up in the woods to join in killing each other.

Just wanted to break the ice

[kaijyuu]

Don't know of anyone in my family that's fought in any war, honestly, except my grandfather who fought in Korea (as an airplane mechanic iirc) and my cousin who fought in Iraq (radio operator).

[Criptfeind]

My grandfather was a navy guy in a reallllly big ship in WW2.

[Cthulhu]

My great x 5 or 6 grandfather was John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general.

[justinlee999]

My great x 5 or 6 grandfather was John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general.

Filthy southerner.

[Karlito]

I've got more than a few Confederate ancestors. I can't remember any of them specifically having been soldiers, but I have seen some old documents describing their slave-ownership and the like.

[Impending Doom]

I have at least one relative who fought on the Confederate side. As I recall, he was killed in battle, though I don't remember where.

[Bdthemag]

I'm not really aware of any relatives that fought in the civil war, although I'm sure there had to be some. My dads side of the family lives mainly in virginia, so someone had to have fought in the civil war.

[Montague]

Nope. Ancestors migrated here 70 years ago. Too late for that.

Although I wonder why are some people so obsessed with the Civil War anyways? Seems like a terrible war people would rather forget, instead people seem almost nostalgic about it.

Also, why do they name US military bases after confederate generals? (Fort Lee, ect) Why honor and memorialize traitors?

[SirAaronIII]

They were good guys/tacticians, just not on the right team. Or something.

Anyway my ancestors are from across an ocean, and not the Atlantic.

[Yoink]

Montague, probably not a good idea to put it like that, dude...
Especially after a few people have said they had ancestors on that side of the war.

Me myself, well, I live in Australia but one side of my family comes from Arizona, so I most likely have SOME ancestors or other who were involved in it, on which side I've no idea.

[Duuvian]

Nope. Ancestors migrated here 70 years ago. Too late for that.

Although I wonder why are some people so obsessed with the Civil War anyways? Seems like a terrible war people would rather forget, instead people seem almost nostalgic about it.

Also, why do they name US military bases after confederate generals? (Fort Lee, ect) Why honor and memorialize traitors?

I'm a product of a Polish (White Russian?) cossack blacksmith who moved here sometime early in the 1900s, so I'm afraid I probably don't have ancestors who were in the area. I don't know much about my mom's side of the tree though as I have long since lost contact with them, other than I have a fraction of American Indian in me from that side.

Nope. Ancestors migrated here 70 years ago. Too late for that.

Although I wonder why are some people so obsessed with the Civil War anyways? Seems like a terrible war people would rather forget, instead people seem almost nostalgic about it.

Also, why do they name US military bases after confederate generals? (Fort Lee, ect) Why honor and memorialize traitors?

I'd say that for the most part nostalgia is a poor term for that war. It's more to make certain that everyone knows how terrible it was the first time that it does not happen again. It was really, really bad for the people who lived it. It's probably the greatest tragedy in our nation's history, and it lasted for four years of killing. 

As for why should we memorialize traitors? While during the war they may have been fairly considered traitors, they were still American citizens, and there is no denying that the South fought as hard as it could. To deny our fellow citizens the pride in their ability to fight as they did would probably not be right even if the reasons for which they were fighting were pretty terrible. (manipulative powerful aristocracy defending their slave taking practices etc)

EDIT: Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Also I have no idea if that includes all war related deaths; such as covering farm boys who had never left home coming into contact with one of the many diseases in the army that killed at that time.

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Besides, although it was terrible and stupid and wasteful and please let it never happen again but there was such heroism shown in that war that it's impossible to forget.

It's basically the cow walking into the butcher shop. Each one of those guys is the cow when he walks towards that cannon filled with musketballs to the effect of a shotgun.

[Duuvian]

Also if you can find a copy of this game, I highly recommend it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_Generals_II

Hex based but it's really well done

[Reudh]

I'm Australian of Dutch/English descent. I'm related to a guy who was a general called Tilden sometime in America's past, though I'm not sure when.