Hello Candis,
Good to hear from you again. How's the research into James Catley of Barley
going? No doubt you will have seen the recent e-mails running on "The Ansty
Cat*leys"?
Yes indeed, I am aware that the American Civil War, just like most civil
wars before it such as ours here in 1642 or the Spanish one in 1937 turned
members of the same family against each other in many cases and as such,
many men travelled quite some distances to join forces and thus EEC could
well have lived far away from North Carolina.
However, I am at a loss to identify him from any of the three Cat*ley Trees
that I know of who immigrated into the States before that war as they seemed
to settle in the Pittsburgh or Niagra areas for quite a few generations
before spreading outwards later on.
Thus it seemed a possible explanation that maybe EEC came from an older
Catley family (in American terms that is) who had located themselves much
further south and just might have been involved with plantation agriculture
and thus the slave trade. This is a suggestion on my part and nothing more.
I used the word negro not to insult or offend but simply because that
seemingly was the term used at that time to identify black slave labour.
Regards ................. Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: <CSan104681(a)cs.com>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 8:04 PM
Subject: [CAT...] American Civil War
Hello Tim,
I have been thinking on your assumption that EEC was of the Confederacy
during the Civil War. This was a war that crosses City/Town, County and
State
lines. Neighbor against neighbor and Families agains each other.
Because
he is
listed in the index for North Carolina means his sympathy's were
with the
South.
He could very well be from the North or one of the border States
between
the
North and South. Where the State may have sided with the North but he
joined in
the Southern State of North Carolina because of his belief. My
husbands
family
is very Southern in its sympathy's but one family, the father a
Union
officer
and his 2 sons on the Confederate line for Tennessee. This is a very
difficult war to research your ancestors in because of this. Often times
returning
home to find they were not welcome and had to leave because of this.
Here in the USA at the time of Slavery they were called "Negro" but now I
believe the term is "Afro American".
--Candis Sanders--
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