re: #206 HappyWarrior

Meanwhile Nova is practically Northern. I never really identified with the south at all learning about the civil war. Granted knew my family was all Northern.

This is where family history kicks in. Indiana was nominally Northern, but the southern part of the state (near Kentucky) had some southern sympathizers and was fairly divided. I’ve also learned that one of my relatives left Kentucky for Indiana just prior to the Civil War. My suspicion - and it is only suspicion based on vague speculation and what little research I could gather - is that he left his slaveholder family and ran with an abolitionist family friend, married a Hoosier bride, and settled down in fish country.