This happen in GA, but the family moved to Cherokee Co., AL after the civil war. James and family lived in GA during the civil war. One of the daughters told a story of how the union soldiers came and found the corn they had hid. The box was unmoveable (nailed down) so he (the soldier) got a pair of her daddy's breeches, tied knots in the legs and filled up the pants with the corn. She said she would always remember the soldier riding off with her daddy's pants "Ridding behind him". She also told how they could see Atlanta burn for three days. After things quitted down, she walked all the way to Rockmart, Ga to get help for the family. She tells about meeting a black woman and asking for something to eat. All the woman had was a piece of molded cornbread. The girl said that was the best cornbread she had ever ate. (She had not had anything to eat for three days.) Several of my families moved to Cherokee Co after the war and started new lives. My great great grandmother moved her family to AL. Her husband had been killed in 1860 leaving her to raise 10 children alone. Her oldest son had been killed during the war and her second son was badly wounded and was found 'unfit' for field service. So my great granddad served as a 'nurse' at a confederate hospital until the end of the war. Out of the nine surviving children, all but one remained near Cherokee Co. The second son that had been wounded during the war helped in a big way to populate Cherokee Co., he was the father of 26 children, although I have only found the names of 23. And most of his children had large families. There is hardly a family in Cherokee that I am not related to in some way. Would like to read more civil war stories Doris