Some Families Had Relatives Serving on Both Sides of the War

This article is nearly a phrase common in the American Civil War. For the miniature wargaming ruleset, see Brother Confronting Brother (game).

"Blood brother against blood brother" is a slogan used in histories of the American Civil War, describing the predicament faced in families (primarily, but not exclusively, residents of border states) in which their loyalties and military machine service were divided between the Union and the Confederacy. In that location are a number of stories of brothers fighting in the same battles on contrary sides, or even of brothers killing brothers over the bug.

Examples [edit]

• December 26, 1861, Amalgamated Lt. Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest was ordered to probe the strength of Union troops in and around Campsite Calhoun, Kentucky. Two Confederate frontwards scouts, Adam R. Johnson and Robert Yard. Martin, each had brothers stationed at the camp.^[1]
• On May 23, 1862, at the Battle of Front Royal, Capt. William Goldsborough of the Confederate 1st Maryland Infantry captured his brother Charles Goldsborough of the Union 1st Maryland Infantry and took him prisoner. The battle is also notable for being the only fourth dimension in United states of america military history that two regiments from the same state with the same numerical designation have engaged each other in battle.
• The Crittenden brothers were brigadier generals on opposite sides of the conflict: George Bibb Crittenden within the Amalgamated Army and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden within the Union Army. In 1861, George was promoted to brigadier general on August 15 and briefly allowable a brigade in the Army of the Potomac earlier he was assigned the District of Eastward Tennessee in Nov. Crittenden briefly allowable the 2d Division of the Ground forces of Central Kentucky, but was relieved of duty and arrested for drunkenness on March 31, 1862.^[2]
• The Terrill brothers were also brigadier generals on contrary sides of the conflict: James Barbour Terrill^[3] inside the Amalgamated Army (killed at the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek) and William Rufus Terrill inside the Union Regular army (killed at the Battle of Perryville).
• On November 7, 1861, at the Boxing of Port Royal, Matrimony Navy Commander Percival Drayton of the USS Pocahontas battled Confederate forces on shore commanded by his blood brother General Thomas F. Drayton.
• As cited in the book, "A Century of Wayne County, Kentucky", brothers Anthony and William McBeath fought on opposite sides of the Ceremonious War, Anthony for the Confederate Army, and William for the Union Army. At the end of the state of war, both brothers returned domicile the same evening, William in a "resplendent compatible of a Major in the Federal Army", and several hours later on, Anthony in "rags with a 'taterhill' hat."^[four]

• On June 16, 1862, Brothers James and Alexander Sandy Campbell fought each other on contrary sides of the Boxing of Secessionville, which was the first major attempt by federal troops to regain Charleston.^[5] James and Alexander Campbell were brothers from a Scottish family that immigrated to the United States in the 1850s. Confederate James Campbell joined a militia company in Charleston known as the 42nd Infantry Regiment, which consolidated with other troops into the Charleston Battalion. In New York, Alexander joined the 79th Highlander regiment.^[six] They were within yards of each other, but were unaware of that fact until near the finish of the battle.^[7] James wrote to Sandy after the battle, "I was astonished to hear from the prisoners that you was colour Bearer of the Regmt that assalted the Battrey [sic] at this point the other day."^[8]
• In May 1863, brothers John and Henry McLaughlin fought on reverse sides at the Siege of Vicksburg. Both McLaughlin brothers were born in Marion County, Indiana. John McLaughlin enlisted with the Union army, achieving the rank of colonel by the end of the state of war. Henry enlisted in the Confederate Ground forces as a individual and was promoted to second lieutenant. In the boxing the Siege of Vicksburg, Henry was captured and sent to a Union military prison.^[9]
• The Terrill Brothers came into conflict at the Amalgamated victory at Hartsville, TN in 1862. George W. Terrill, Joshua C. Terril, Simeon F. Terrill, and Robert Q. Terrill originated in Boone County, KY. George Westward. Terrill fought with the 5th KY Cavalry, Company G, along with his brothers Joshua and Simeon. Robert Q. Terrill was a commencement lieutenant in the Kentucky Volunteer U.S. Infantry, 11th Regiment. At the Amalgamated victory at Hartsville, TN in 1862, the 5th KY Cavalry took 1,844 Union prisoners and wagons of supplies. One of these prisoners was Robert Terrill.^[10]
• The historian and genealogical researcher Chad Clifford Davis of Tulsa, Oklahoma uncovered the beginning known set of brothers to fight confronting each other in the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern on March vii, 1862. Private John Virgil Barnhart from Company B of the 24th Missouri Infantry Regiment (USA) fought his brother Individual Thomas Henderson Barnhart of the Missouri Country Baby-sit 3rd Brigade (CSA). Their brother Alfred S. Barnhart likewise served Confederate Missouri every bit a Partisan Ranger, and their brothers David and Henry fought as Unionists.

References [edit]

1. ^ The Battle of Sacramento, Battlefield history
2. ^ "George Bibb Crittenden". American Battlefield Trust. 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2020-05-26 .
3. ^ VMI Civil War Generals Biographical information from the VMI archive
4. ^ Johnson, A. P. (1939). A Century of Wayne County Kentucky, 1800-1900. The Standard Printing Co.: Louisville, KY, p.32 and p.166-167.
5. ^ "Letters between James and Alexander Campbell after the Battle of Secessionville (brothers on opposing sides of the war), June 1862". digital.scetv.org . Retrieved 2020-05-26 .
6. ^ "Brother Against Brother at Secessionville". American Battlefield Trust. 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2020-05-26 .
7. ^ J. Tracey Power. Blood brother Against Brother: Alexander and James Campbells'south Civil State of war, South Carolina Historical Magazine, 95:two (April 1994)
8. ^ Blood Fighting Claret: An instance of 2 brothers in the Ceremonious War
9. ^ "Brother Against Brother in the Ceremonious State of war". www.genealogycenter.org . Retrieved 2020-05-26 .
10. ^ "brother_against_brother [Chronicles of Boone County]". www.bcpl.org . Retrieved 2020-05-26 .

Farther reading [edit]

• Taylor, Amy Murrell. The Divided Family unit in Civil War America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of Northward Carolina Press, 2009 ISBN 9780807861868

External links [edit]

• Bruce Catton. Brother Confronting Brother, American Heritage, 1961, Book 12, Consequence 3
• Brother Against Brother: The American Civil War (2001 Video),

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_against_brother

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