This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RS.2ADE/1308 Message Board Post: I'm pretty sure that Alex Underwood had three sons who were in the Confederate army, and I believe one of them died (whether from disease or in battle, I do not know). Joel Mize, who is descended from the Underwoods, told me he had heard stories that Alex Underwood was murdered after the war, perhaps hung. John R. Phillips, from whom Daryl Peters and I are descended, was a pretty close neighbor of Alex Underwood prior to the Civil War. He said in his autobiography that Alex was originally Union-oriented but subsequently sided with the Confederacy for fear of losing his considerably property and belongings. (Yes, Underwood was a slave-holder.) Ironically, after the war was over, a son of Alex Underwood who had served in the Confederate Army, married a daughter of Green Haley, who was very pro-Union. Loyalties to one side or the other in northwest Alabama were not so clear-cut as history would have us to believe.