had a Private Rufus C. Wright in the 16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a.k.a. straw hat men

he's like my great great great great grandfather

and a great great great grandfather was drafted but I can only records for his drafting, not for any rank or service

Neat. Did you use a service?

Well my great-grandmother organized a massive genealogical chart dating back to the 1600's and my Great Aunt has maintained it for a while, but I used the information off the chart with Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com showed me the military records, although I'm sure if I asked my great Aunt she would've known it all, but she lives 14 hours away

You tellin me you're the descendant of a yankee?

my father's side is entirely from New York and my mother's side is from Pennsylvania

I know more about my father's side though

Disgusting and makes me vomit

YUCK!

yeah oh well

I'm still a Virginian

but my family are all Northerners

you know if I investigate my mother's side more I might find relatives from surrounding states around Pennsylvania

Fuck no you aren't

which means potentially Virginia and Maryland

You're a yankee traitor by association

which means it's possible I could find southerners, maybe even confederate veterans

hey my family are yankees traitors but it's their fault they brought me to the south

We can trace every modern problem back to northern victory

reconstruction was pretty rough yeah

basically the opposite of reconstruction

And northern victory set a tone of federal supremacy that never died

and the annihilation of state pride

yeah

State power was basically irrelevant if the big bad federals didn't like what ever they were doing

well I might be directly related to a yankee martyr I'm still proud of being Virginian, and I'm about to begin reenacting for the 59th Virginia Infantry Regiment

nice

Virginia uber alles in der welt

I met them today at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm and they want to make me flag-bearer

for their event in November

That is *epic*

ew no Nazis

but I'll proudly march with that battle flag in front of them

Are you implying that Virginia is not above all others in the world?

sadly not today

may I remind you of

ralph northam

Yankee propaganda and lies

and tim kaine