Just got a Family Geneology from the ex-wife of the brother of my first
husband and father of my sons. I learned that my sons have a great-great
grandfather who served in a PA unit in the Civil War. This is of interest,
since no one in my own family can find any indications that my ancesters
fought in The War. But what caught my attention was that this ancester was
wounded at Chancellorsville. My secondd husband, who father my sons since
their teens, also has an ancester who was wounded, for the Confederacy, at
Chancellorsville. Who'd a-thunk! Furthermore, my sons' Dieter ancester was
at Petersburg in 1865, fought at Sutherland Station and at Sailor's Creeks,
so he may have crossed the property we now live on. I've done a website on
the battle the day before Sutherland, for Five Forks. I now wonder if he was
also there, although the history doesn't say so. We live between Southerland
and Nottoway, a mile from the railroad, if it is still in the same bed as in
1865.

I sure hope that when my sons get their copy of this geneology they will be
as interested in this as I am. It is certainly a feather in the cap of
geneologists to find such interesting connections in families.

Anne

Anne Pemberton
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