US Civil War Highland Regiments

[bikeolounger]

My great-grandmother (father's mother's mother) had an uncle who, according to family lore, served under the Grey Ghost. My father still has the issue pistol and one that said uncle lifted from a Yankee officer (again, there is some family lore involved).

That branch of my family tree was rooted in the northern region of Virginia. My father's parents lived their childhoods in the farmlands between Sperryville and Woodville. There is a business of some sort in the building where both attended high school eighty-some years ago, and in the adjacent building is a company that sells tables made of old barn wood. A second- or third cousin operates a tourist store right on 211 (That Sperryville Emporium)

That said, of course I have a nodding familiarity with the events of 140-some years ago.

No, I'm not interested in re-enactments. One of my great-grandmother's wishes was that the pistols never be fired again, lest they still carry some reminder of the evil that was part of that horrendous time. Forrester Modern put it quite well--atrocities were committed by both sides, aye, by family against family. It was quite a showcase of then-modern ways to kill and maim enemy combatants. Battlefield medicine struggled to keep up (and didn't do well at that). It was a grisly, horrible time.

Would I wear the Confederate Memorial Tartan? I don't know. I'm not ready to buy a kilt of it for monetary reasons. I suspect that there are other tartans I would wear more often, simply due to the respective color patterns. If I ever have the funds to get that far down a wish-list, I'll decide.

Back to the thread topic, though, I don't have any idea about whether such a unit existed. I wasn't there.

[English Bloke]

A fascinating thread. Can't contribute to the topic but I'm enjoying the read...

[macneighill]

I like this thread already. Sorry, its the history freak in me :mrgreen: .

At any rate, my GGG Grandfather served as an Officer in the Confederate Army during the War Between the States (American Civil War for those that aren't too familiar with that term). Prior to the outbreak of the war, he was a blacksmith/gunsmith by trade. When hostilities began, he found himself making rifles for the Confederate Government. In 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate Army. Shortly after, he was appointed Surgeon of the 4th Georgia Infantry and, served in that position until his parole in May of 1865.

3 years into the war (1864), our family records quote him as saying " he longed for life to return to way it was prior to the war". He was no advocate for continuing the fighting. As our records state, he longed for peace and, to return to his life at home.

Records show my GGG Grandfather was born in South Carolina in 1825. We have/had family from all around where my GGG Grandfather was born. Prior to that, our records show (as we go further back in time) that, our family came from Western Scotland to Northern Ireland then, to Pennsylvania (late 1600's / early 1700's), eventually heading south into South Carolina, then finally settling in Northern Georgia in the 1830's.