Quote Originally Posted by warrior View Post
Not to take away honor which I grudgingly give but there were other Scots in that theatre of war. Specifically the 32nd Alabama of the Army of Tennessee CSA. Companies D and E were raised in Clarke county Alabama and the muster rolls show the names MacLeod, Calhoun, McVay, Mathews, Creagh, Megginson, Robinson and Pugh. As was often the case on both sides and in times past these companies were raised in communities of extended blood ties. All of these are my kinsmen and to this day there descendants still reside in Clarke county.
One hundred and forty eight years ago this month the 32nd was dug in atop Missionary Ridge and took the brunt of the union assault upon their works. That one engagement still stands as the greatest loss of manhood Clarke county has ever experienced. In company D Captain Daniel McLeod, my ggg grandfather by way of his daughter, would lose his brother Cpl Malcolm McLeod, also my ggg grandfather (yes a first cousin marriage) and both a son and son in law plus thirteen cousins.

Cpt Daniel McLeod survived the war and would return home and devote the rest of his life to supporting the widows and children of his kinsmen that did not. Upon his death was buried at the old union campground cemetary, which at that time was the gathering spot for CSA veterans, next to his father Neal MacLeod who was born on the Isle of Skye.

All of this is documented in both Ball's and Mathews' histories of Clarke county.

BTW David Chapman Mathews is not only a cousin but also a former president of the University of Alabama.
There were also Highland units in Louisiana and South Carolina. The 12th Illinois Infantry reportedly wore some sort of bonnet as its headgear, befitting it's other name, the "1st Scotch Regiment", and even California had a "Wallace Guard" in its pre-war militia (circa the 1850s) -- I would daresay though, that the majority of Scots who did serve did not with enthic units such as the 79th, but with ordinary line units -- my own great-great grandfather served with Crocker's Iowa Brigade (11th IA Infantry) and only carried a book of Burns with him, as family legend states.

T.