Yesterday, I discovered another Civil War soldier in our family history. John W. Younger served in Co. I of Missouri's 13th Cavalry. This Confederate unit was made up of Southerners from the Ozark Mountain area of Missouri. What is so poignant about this discovery is that it was made right after I extracted, from a biographical sketch of Oliver Johnson, sergeant in an Ohio unit in the Union Army, an account of his military service, which included many battles and injuries.
Our family history will not be complete without a study of our ancestors' involovement in the War Between the States; however, I find myself hesitant to begin because of the sadness of it all.
Could they have possibly seen far enough into the future to understand that their descendants could quite possibly be a mixture of the Blue and the Gray?
