tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526718566533710055.post2169520891854598473..comments2024-02-28T11:45:39.824-05:00Comments on The James Gammell Chronicles: Andrew F. Gammell of the Second Texas InfantryLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885776562484882873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526718566533710055.post-86901543523887853352011-08-18T14:13:58.667-04:002011-08-18T14:13:58.667-04:00James Henry Wylie, half-brother of Andrew Gammell,...James Henry Wylie, half-brother of Andrew Gammell, served in the Union Army, 1st Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. So Jean Dickie Gemmell Wylie had one son fighting for the Confederacy and one son fighting for the Union.Patricia Riddell Lococonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526718566533710055.post-11806115390765150972011-08-13T19:55:31.735-04:002011-08-13T19:55:31.735-04:00An email from Pat Lococo:
"I have always lik...An email from Pat Lococo:<br /><br />"I have always liked Andrew, and I am very happy that he is being remembered through your blog. It was always curious to me that he was such an enthusiastic Confederate, after being born and raised a Yankee (even living in Massachusetts!). It seems that there is a stubborn independent streak that runs through the Scottish - this is not unlike James Gemmell fighting in Canada even though he was an American. Andrew probably didn't like the federal government meddling into the affairs of Texas. (And now that I think of it, the South just wanted to - and did - secede from the Union and make its own country. It was the North that forced it - through war - to remain part of the Union).<br /><br />Andrews' daughters seem to have married Northerners. I wonder if he was remembered as a Confederate hero to his grandchildren. I don't imagine that sentiment toward the South was great after the war."Elizabeth Hedquistnoreply@blogger.com