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Originally Posted by UTGrad
Very cool Janieg. My great great grandpa was a Confederate soldier under Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was killed at the Battle of Brices Crossroads 6/10/1864.
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This born-and-bred and proud Yankee had some serious adjusting to when researching my dad's family. I descend from two Tennessee Confederate soldiers and a lot of slave-owning families.
I'm currently in touch with a handful of black cousins I have who show up as DNA matches with myself or my aunts. We're having a grand time trying to figure what the connection is.