US Civil War Highland Regiments

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My great-grandmother (father's mother's mother) had an uncle who, according to family lore, served under the Grey Ghost. My father still has the issue pistol and one that said uncle lifted from a Yankee officer (again, there is some family lore involved).

That branch of my family tree was rooted in the northern region of Virginia. My father's parents lived their childhoods in the farmlands between Sperryville and Woodville. There is a business of some sort in the building where both attended high school eighty-some years ago, and in the adjacent building is a company that sells tables made of old barn wood. A second- or third cousin operates a tourist store right on 211 (That Sperryville Emporium)

That said, of course I have a nodding familiarity with the events of 140-some years ago.

No, I'm not interested in re-enactments. One of my great-grandmother's wishes was that the pistols never be fired again, lest they still carry some reminder of the evil that was part of that horrendous time. Forrester Modern put it quite well--atrocities were committed by both sides, aye, by family against family. It was quite a showcase of then-modern ways to kill and maim enemy combatants. Battlefield medicine struggled to keep up (and didn't do well at that). It was a grisly, horrible time.

Would I wear the Confederate Memorial Tartan? I don't know. I'm not ready to buy a kilt of it for monetary reasons. I suspect that there are other tartans I would wear more often, simply due to the respective color patterns. If I ever have the funds to get that far down a wish-list, I'll decide.

Back to the thread topic, though, I don't have any idea about whether such a unit existed. I wasn't there.