Publisher's Synopsis
Praise for ON BOTH SIDES: "I marvel at your research. The detail you bring to the reader makes the time come alive." Robert T. S. Noted International Author and Historian Kathleen Shelby Boyett had ancestors on both sides of the Civil War conflict. One ancestor rode a horse and walked over 8,000 miles in the New Mexico Campaign and in defense of Louisiana. If not for a thunderstorm, Ms. Boyett wouldn't be here to tell his story. An East Tennessee ancestor harrowingly escaped Confederate territory on the Underground Railroad, and was piloted over the mountains to the Union lines in Kentucky during the dead of winter, only to be captured later in the Cumberland Gap. Another ancestor was a Confederate spy, and a wealthy ancestor in Alabama supported the Union to the tune of over $4,100. On a humorous note, Ms. Boyett postulates at the end of the book that perhaps her ancestors' varied decisions are the reason she sometimes cannot make up her mind!
