A Guy "about 70" has a grandfather that served in the CSA

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I know a link would be better.. but I know guy who lives in Raleigh-has a place at Wrightsville where I know him from-his grandfather served in the CSA. The key is Grandad sired his father at age 80 ish
PS I have no idea why this typing is in such a weird format
 
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I know a link would be better.. but I know guy who lives in Raleigh-has a place at Wrightsville where I know him from-his grandfather served in the CSA. The key is Grandad sired his father at age 80 ish
PS I have no idea why this typing is in such a weird format
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Man, my great-great-great grandfather is how far I gotta go to find a confederate vet.
 
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Irene Triplett from Wilkes County received a Civil War pension, as the child of a Civil War veteran, until her death in 2020.
 
My great-great grandfather on my mom's aide was a Captain in the Confederate Army. He was in the 64th infantry, 11th battalion, Allen's regiment from NC. He was captured in Tennessee.

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There was a lady who died in St. Pauls a few years ago whose father fought in civil war. We did story. Here is link. Her sister lived to be I think 106. I thought the lede to this story was perfection.

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Devane, daughter of slave, Civil War soldier, dies at 111 | Robesonian

ST. PAULS — The youngest daughter of Civil War veteran Henry Johnson has died. Maggie Devane, who lived independently until just recently, was 111 years old. Devane, who was born Nov. 17, 1905, in Rex…
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My wife's family is Secesh. When I go to my inlaws I sleep in Capt. Sam Chapman's bed, he was John Singleton Mosby's Chaplain. Capt Chapman's great grandson my stepfather to my mother-in-law. Who in turn was a great-granddaughter of Joseph Guynn Co E 29th VA. My father-in-law is a great-grandson of Charles Thompson Corling who was a cadet at VMI, fought and was wounded at New Market. He served out the war on Bushrod Johnson's staff and surrendered at Appomattox. My father-in-law's great-grandfather George Lewis served in a Virginia cavalry unit until his first engagement. He told his father, who was lukewarm for the confederacy being from Greenbrier County, "The Yankees shot my weight in lead at me and I want no further part of this." They paid for a substitute and he finished out the war at the now defunct Iron City College in Pittsburgh.

Ironic because my potatoe famine Irish 5th great grandfather enlisted in Co. D of the 77th Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh. I joke with my father in law how their confederate ancestors collectively rolled over in their graves when the grandson of a Pittsburgh steamfitter and a steel mill worker and descendant of a Union soldier married into their family.
 
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One of my best friends from high school (class of 1994) was freshman roommates at Vanderbilt with Paul Thurmond, son of Strom Thurmond. Strom turned 92 during their freshman year. I also went to high school with a guy who was a year behind me and whose dad was born in 1902.
 
By comparison I am 70, my grandfathers were born in the 1890s
 
I'm 70. My grandmother always had a large format picture of her "Grandaddy Hudson" in his confederate uniform hanging in her living room. My grandparents were born in 1894/95.
 
I have a friend in Raleigh who is 70. His grandfather served in the Civil War. My friend's father was 60 when my friend was born, and his grandfather was 60 when his father was born. 70+60+(say)40 gives plenty of room for 1861-1865.
 
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