A House-Divided

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My great-grandmother Huntt had two brothers with divided loyalties. One fought for the Union and one for the Confederacy. Both survived the war (including the Confederate who spent over a year as a prisoner at Point Lookout). They would come together at family functions, but they never acknowledged or spoke to each other for the rest of their lives.

The one who had been a prisoner carried a running sore on his ankle to the day he died. He contracted infection from striking his ankle with a pick-ax while serving on grave detail in the prison. The filth there was horrible.