Dear Cousin, Suzie just posted the message below. I don't recall when she posted it the first time, but perhaps what people questioned was the "grandfather" bit. Since Charles Breedlove [apparently the "father" of the American Breedloves], was an adult when he appeared in the Essex records in 1708, so born before 1687, your Civil War soldier would have been at least his 3rd great grandson. I think many of the Breedlove families thought the name might be Welch. We may never figure out for sure, where the name came from. Marilyn [from Suzie] This was from something I found on J. Wesley Breedlove, in Arkansas, in the rootsweb archives, it says: >>>snip<<.............During the late war he enlisted under Gen. Price in the Confederate service, but owing to being accidentally wounded in the hand in 1863, he was compelled to give up soldiering for a time. His grandfather came from Wales and settled in Virginia, where the father of Clay B. was born.......... >snip<