Rick Paddock wrote, "The Civil War devastated families, and my ancestors in 
Henderson CO, TN, were not spared. One of them was a woman of means before 
the War but destitute during and after. One of her brothers was killed in 
fighting in Georgia. The family had hardly assimilated this news when word 
came that another brother lay languishing in a primitive field hospital in 
Vicksburg.

Gritty and determined, she gathered provisions, a feather mattress, her
grandmother's quilt, and put them into a wagon. All the horses on her farm
had been commandeered earlier by General Forrest, leaving her with one mule
and a cow to pull her wagon. But that didn't stop her. She enlisted an
elderly member of the the freedmen who had stayed on out of loyalty and
served as houseman, and set off for Vicksburg, some 500 miles to the
south-to bring her brother home."
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Do I understand you to say that this "gritty and determined" woman's family 
did not free any of their slaves but instead fought a war to maintain 
slavery, and we are supposed to feel sorry for her that she faced such a 
hard time without the slaves and the horses commandered by the millionaire 
slave-trader Nathan Forrest?
Paul