Tonight's interesting genealogical find--3 ancestors in the Civil War.

[Critters2]

Tonight, working on genealogical stuff on ancestry.com, I discovered that three of my ancestors on my dad's side fought in the Civil War--two in the 67th Illinois Infantry, one in the 72nd Illinois. These were two of my great-great-great-grandfathers, and one of their brothers. Interestingly, these were all immigrants, two from Scotland, one from Ulster.

I find it amazing to learn these details about my family. And to see how deep my roots go in this country.

[murielm99]

1. Wonderful!

It sounds like fun.

[Riden]

2. That's really cool

I've never found anyone famous but I love hearing success stories!

[hfojvt]

3. I was surprised by deep American roots too

When I first started, I had the idea or impression that all of my grandparents' grandparents were immigrants. So I was surprised to find some lines going back before the Revolutionary War.

[old mark]

4. My mom's fmily goes back quite a long way here - It gave me a really

different outlook on this country and those slimy GOP bastards who tell me they represent the people. I feel I am a real part of the US, like I have a place in history....


mark

[NoPasaran]

5. Service of the two regiments

Quite a difference between the two.

67th REGIMENT INFANTRY

Organized at Camp Douglass, Chicago, Ill., June 13, 1862, for three months. Assigned to guard duty at Camp Douglass till October. Mustered out October 6, 1862.
Regiment lost 12 by disease during service.

72nd REGIMENT INFANTRY ("CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE REGIMENT")

Organized at Chicago, II1, and mustered in August 23, 1862. Moved to Cairo, Ill., August 23-24, 1862. Attached to District of Cairo to September, 1862. District of Columbus, Ky., to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to May, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864. Unassigned, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Detachment Army Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division West Mississippi, to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Cairo, Ill., till September 6, 1862. Moved to Paducah, Ky., September 6, thence to Columbus, Ky., September 17, and duty there till November 21. Expedition from Columbus to Covington, Durhamsville and Fort Randolph September 28-October 5. Expedition to Clarkson, Mo., October 6. Expedition to New Madrid, Mo., October 21. Skirmishes at Clarkson, Mo., October 23 and 28. Moved to Moscow, Miss., November 21, and Join Quinby's Command.

Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on the Mississippi Central R. R. November 21-December 30. Duty on line of the Memphis and Charleston R. R. till January 10, 1863. At Memphis, Tenn., till February 24. Yazoo Pass Expedition, by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and the Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April 8. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 13-April 5. Fort Pemberton near Greenwood March 11-16-25-April 2 and 4. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., and guard duty from Milliken's Bend to New Carthage till April 25. Duty at Richmond, La., April 25-May 10. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4.

Moved to Natchez, Miss., July 12-13, and duty there till October 17. Action at St. Catherine's Creek July 28 and September 1. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., October 17, and Provost duty there till October 30, 1864. Expedition to Waterproof, La., January 29-February 23, 1864. Waterproof February 14-15. Yazoo City Expedition May 4-21. Actions at Benton May 7 and 9. Vaughan May 12. Luce's Plantation May 13. Vaughan Station May 14. Expedition to Grand Gulf July 10-17. Port Gibson July 13. Grand Gulf July 16.

Moved to Nashville, Tenn., October 30-November 13, thence to Columbia, Tenn., November 13-21. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Spring Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Skirmish near Nashville December 7. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Clifton, Ten;, thence to Eastport, Miss., and duty there till February 9, 1865. Moved to New Orleans, La., February 9-21, and duty there till March 12.

Campaign against Mobile, Ala., and its defences March 17-April 12. Expedition from Dauphin Island to Fowl River Narrows March 18-22. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Capture of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 14-25, and duty there till May 23. Moved to Union Springs, Ala., May 23, and duty there till July 19. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., July 19. Mustered out August 7, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 79 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 145 Enlisted men by disease. Total 234.

All according to Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion

[Critters2]

7. Wow. The 72nd was in the thick of it. Interesting. nt

[SidneyCarton]

6. I have some Ancestors in WVa who were Civ. War Vets.

My Great-Great-Great Grandfather had a pension from the Union Army. Though family legend says that he and another relative use to steal horses from either side and sell them to opposition. Eventually one was sentenced to hang but the rope broke.

I recently found out that when and where the first ancestor on my father's side arrived in America. Jonathan Herron arrived in Wilmington, NC in 1755. (Pretty cool huh?)

[Critters2]

8. That is cool. This is all cool. I always thought of myself as German-American,

but have discovered I have way more Scottish blood than German. I have a German surname, grew up in a German neighborhood (in a pretty German city--Davenport, IA), and a German ethnic church. So, I really identified as German. But the great majority of my ancestors came from Scotland, or were Protestants from Northern Ireland (so, also Scottish). Now I'm curious as to why all those Scots left their homeland.

It is cool, indeed!

[SidneyCarton]

10. Senator Jim Webb wrote a book about the American Scots-Irish called "Born Fighting"

Some of the early chapters deal with that.

I have a lot of trouble tracking my German ancestors. They may have come to South Texas via Galveston (Which was flattened at the beginning of the 20th Century by a monster Hurricane, and they left via Bremen, which we flattened in 1943-44. Hence, documentation has been a little thin on that line.

[charlie and algernon]

9. awsome! so did I

My dad's side has been here since the 1700s and we know we had a Lt. Col in the Revolutionary War and we're pretty sure we had a great, great grandfather in the Civil War who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. We think he may have been in one of the Pennsylvanian regiments on Little Round Top!