All 8 of my gggrandfathers were CSA.

At 12:11 PM 3/27/2011, you wrote:
>This is especially interesting for families like mine who had as 
>many soldiers in the CSA
>as they had on the UNION side.
>
>The War Between the Stats. Yes, that's stats, not states.
>
>Historians and statisticians are questioning the statistics of
>Confederate War dead. Official military records compiled in 1866
>counted 40,275 North Carolina soldiers who died in uniform.
>Reportedly, North Carolina had more men die in uniform than any other
>Confederate state, although not as many as New York in the Union. Now
>new investigations seem to show the 1866 claims, made when records
>were spotty, are highly inaccurate.
>
>While the new counts are not yet complete, it looks like the true
>count will be about 31,000 deaths of North Carolina soldiers during
>the war. Meanwhile, a separate count iis being made of Virginia
>soldiers and it looks like its final tally will also be about 31,000,
>far higher than previous reports.
>
>"It's going to be close," says Virginia librarian Edwin Ray, the man
>making the count of Virginia deaths in uniform.
>
>The issue tends to be emotional in the affected states which have
>pride in their soldiers who died for the losing cause. Whatever the
>final count, many people will have difficulty believing it.
>
>New York reported the most deaths of any state: 46,534, according to
>the 1866 federal report.
>
>You can read more in an article by Cameron McWhirter in the Wall
>Street Journal at http://goo.gl/usb0U  If this link does not work - 
>try this one:
>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576202823930087328.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
>
>Another interesting fact is that Cameron McWhirter had family 
>fighting for the CSA
>and this family member was a 'friend' of my distant cousin General Abe Buford
>who rode with General Forrest -CSA..
>
>
>
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