My GGG grandfather served both the confederacy and union.

[Squinch]

5. Two GG grandfathers fought, both on the Union side. One, I believe, signed up, the other was a

brand new immigrant who took a wealthy man's place in return for the money to feed and house his family for a good long time.

Both were terribly unlucky. The one ended up in Andersonville Prison, which was a huge ditch in the ground ringed by guards. It had a stream running through the middle of it, but there was no shelter and no food. The Confederacy dumped tens of thousands of Union prisoners into it. Almost no one survived. And the man whose conscription place he took never paid his family the money he owed them.

The other ended up on a Confederate prison ship, which was reportedly even worse than Andersonville. Of course he died there.

Such unimaginable suffering. And this veneration of the Confederacy is an insult to their experiences along with being an insult to every American person of color.