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From: "Marilyn Bess" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] Scotch-Irish soldiers
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:56:59 -0500
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I agree my Scotch Irish Carson family came around 1800, they provided over a
dozen grandsons for the Civil War
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From: "Hugh Fullerton" <>
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Sent: Monday, Nover ember 24, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [S-I] Scotch-Irish soldiers


>I don't remember the numbers, but I think James Webb, in his book "Born
> Fighting" gives estimates of these. They can only be very general,
> however,
> since S-I was not recognized as an ethnic group, and no one classified the
> soldiers anyway. His main thesis is that the Scotch-Irish have done a
> large
> share of the fighting in all U.S. wars, as part of their heritage,
> especially those of S-I descent from the southern Appalachians.
>
> Hugh S. Fullerton
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM, John Erwin <>
> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the % of Scotch-Irish soldiers in the American Rev. War?
>> Or the % of S I soldiers in the Confederate and Union armies?
>>
>> John
>>
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