This story was told to me by my dad who lived for a time with his grandmother who told him the story. My great grandparents lived in Tebo twp. in Henry Co. My great grandfather was a blacksmith by trade but had been severely injured in an accident just prior to or in the early stages of the Civil War. My great grandmother was afraid the strain of shoeing horses would kill him. She told my father that when the family got wind of Union soldiers coming into the area, she would hide him out in a hollow oak tree on their land and take him food at night until the soldiers had left the area. She also kept a gun under the floor board of the house which on questioning by dad, she said she would only have used if the soldiers bothered the children, of which she had a considerable group. Fae