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." ------------------------------ 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