In North and South Carolina during the Civil War, armies from both the North and the South were constantly passing through causing damage, stealing livestock and crops.

The known Confederate sympathizers in the Carolinas suffered terribly.

One of my young ancestors was hung after he was caught stealing corn from a Union grain storage silo.

They were starving and he had no other choice. He was fifteen years old.

It was after this that they all decided to move the family to Alabama deep in the South where they had relatives living.

They also decided to quickly leave after a couple of the troops that hung the boy were found dead...