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DemocraticPatriot

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7. I have yet to tell him that one of our ancestors was a slaveholder in Virginia,

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 19, 2021, 06:03 AM

Jul 2021

(I was saving that back, but he deleted the thread before I could get to it)...

It may or may not have been the same guy who was a Confederate cavlaryman from the 12th Virginia regiment, who died at or near the battle of the Wilderness... an ancestor of my grandmother.

Luckily, I have have 2 other ancestors who marched with Sherman...

(My father was the genealogist who researched all of this)

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