At 06:02 PM 11/13/97 -0600, Larry Noah wrote: [snip] > There were loyalists in the county. I have no problem that I have >loyalist as ancestors even if they did fight on the loosing side. I would >also have no problem if I found ancestors fighting on the winning side of >the Civil War. We are here to find our roots - not to judge our ancestors. Excellent point. btw, there are at least two books on Southerners on the Union side in the Civil War. One is Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains. The other [I don't have the title since I don't own the book and I didn't take notes on it.] has a *lot* of NC information, particularly from the Piedmont and further east. (I have a relative who owns a copy and I plan to do my best to talk him out of his copy.<g>) Elizabeth Whitaker elwhitaker@shtc.net computer columnist, THE BETHUNE PAW PRINT http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~elwhitaker (new version) ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm