My folks are from the extreme North East point in Mississippi, just across the border from Shiloh.
I remember asking my grandaddy about the Civil War...he told me that both of my GGGrandaddys fought and survived the war.....Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Richmond.
Mississippi Rifles regiments.
He told me about when he was young (1920's) and plowing a field with mules. He would often times come across cannonballs and Minne Balls.
I asked what he did with the old Civil War bullets..
"Made lead fishing sinkers out of them"....he said.
My ancestors were farmers, and did not own slaves.
It's amazing how history and the culture of our own country has changed due to this horrific struggle.
I grew up near Chicago, but the South has not changed in some ways in over a century.
68ROX
