Outstanding video on the real history of the South.

Our story is very complex. My ancestors were Eastern Creeks, who participated in the Underground Railroad that ferried escaped slaves to the North. During the Civil War they hid Southern white draft evaders and deserters, plus escaped Union prisoners-of-war . . . yet most of my great-great grandfathers and one great-grandfather served in one of the most famous Confederate units. Cobb’s Legion.

My Creek Indian ancestors were featured in the movie “Gods and General”at the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA. The regiment was primarily composed of Irish and Scottish immigrants, but many young Northeast Georgia Creek men enrolled in the regiment intentionally, because they got along well with their Gaelic neighbors.

The battle flag of Cobb’s Legion is now the State Flag of Georgia! I think that the most bizarre part of our family’s history is that one of my gg-grandfathers was captured at the entrance to my former farm in the Shenandoah Valley on November 8, 1864. That was exactly a month after the Battle of Toms Brook was fought on our Virginia farm. I didn’t know about my ancestor being captured there until after I had moved back to Georgia. The farm was not for sale, when we were looking for a farm to move to. I was just driving around and something told me to stop at the driveway.