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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 1356884" data-attributes="member: 4235">My great great great great great great great great grandfather and grandmother, John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummings Jackson, were both Revolutionary War veterans.&nbsp; John was a Captain and Rifleman in the Virginia militia.&nbsp; He and his 2 eldest sons fought at the Battle of King&#039;s Mountain in South Carolina, which was a great victory over the British.&nbsp; While the men were off fighting, Elizabeth Jackson turned their home into a fort and protected the townspeople, fighting off an attack from indians allied with the British.&nbsp; She has a chapter of the DAR named after her for this.Their great grandson, my great great great great great great grandfather, was Thomas &quot;Stonewall&quot; Jackson... one of the greatest military strategians who ever lived.&nbsp; Unfortunately, he was mortally wounded by friendly fire during the battle of Chancellorsville.&nbsp; If he was at Gettysburg, just months later, things might have gone a little different for us.And then my Grandpa, Robert Gilmore, was on the U.S.S. Fulton, a submarine tender, in WWII.&nbsp; They went out by themselves into Japanese water to re-supply attack subs that were raiding the Jap convoys.Here&#039;s a good one for you... a young kid asked his grandpa, &quot;did you fight in the American Revolution?&quot;&nbsp; The grandpa said, &quot;no son, not yet.&quot;I would answer the same way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="henschman, post: 1356884, member: 4235"] My great great great great great great great great grandfather and grandmother, John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummings Jackson, were both Revolutionary War veterans. John was a Captain and Rifleman in the Virginia militia. He and his 2 eldest sons fought at the Battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina, which was a great victory over the British. While the men were off fighting, Elizabeth Jackson turned their home into a fort and protected the townspeople, fighting off an attack from indians allied with the British. She has a chapter of the DAR named after her for this. Their great grandson, my great great great great great great grandfather, was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson... one of the greatest military strategians who ever lived. Unfortunately, he was mortally wounded by friendly fire during the battle of Chancellorsville. If he was at Gettysburg, just months later, things might have gone a little different for us. And then my Grandpa, Robert Gilmore, was on the U.S.S. Fulton, a submarine tender, in WWII. They went out by themselves into Japanese water to re-supply attack subs that were raiding the Jap convoys. Here's a good one for you... a young kid asked his grandpa, "did you fight in the American Revolution?" The grandpa said, "no son, not yet." I would answer the same way. [/QUOTE]

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