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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cohiba" data-source="post: 1923767" data-attributes="member: 2550">After reading this post, it reminded me of when my great grandfather would talk about his relatives that served in the civil war.My great grandfather would tell us(cousins-when we were kids) stories of relatives who served for the Cofederacy.  Tennesse, Arkansas, and Louisiana troops.  A few turned into bushwhackers, some were hanged...get this...they were taken home to tell their family and dispense their last wishes, before they were hanged.  **What caught my attention was the "hog" part.  I remembered great grandad telling us kids about a fear that some of the relatives(confederates) had....either being wounded (not able to defend yourself)and being eaten by a hog or killed in battle and being eaten by a hog.He told us of a relative(I'm trying to remember the story) fleeing a defeated battle somewhere and they were traveling to the next town to get supplies and try to defend that area.As they were coming into the town, they spotted some hogs...FOOD TO EAT.  The local town people told them not to eat those hogs....those hogs had been eating dead soldiers.  The towns people would starve before they ate thos hogs.I don't know if they were domesticated hogs that got loose or wild hogs.Cohiba</blockquote>