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Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow
We had New Yorkers that fought for the South in my multiple family trees’ lines and the church I attend has Brigadier General McComb, a Pennsylvanian who had moved to Tennessee before the war. The war mostly depended on where you lived rather than your political views.
This was just a joke before anybody gets their panties in a wad but I was unable to put a smiley face on it from my cell phone. My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather is buried at Pt. Lookout, MD, as pro Southern of a county as any. But all the food, blankets, clothing, and medical supplies brought to them never made it into the prison. Stolen. He died in March ‘65 of “dropsy,” otherwise starved to death.
Off track above, but I’ve never found but one bargain at Greentop. The rest you have to start really low on an offer and they usually refuse.
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Just saw this. "Dropsy" is a term that for a couple of hundred years was used by folk medicine practitioners to denote congestive heart failure. I read a book in high school 60 years ago on common remedies that were used for centuries before modern drug manufacture caught up. It contained a chapter on Foxglove and detailed how the flower was used to treat the disease and the detailed titration that was required to keep from killing the patient. It amazed me at the time as to how really knowledgeable some of those people were. Later when I spent quite a bit of time in genealogy research I read a lot of death certificates and I was amazed at how many deaths were recorded by doctors as due to dropsy. I believe in Appalachia in the period around 1900 that any death in a rural area in which the doctor had no clue, it would be attributed to "the dropsy", the term commonly used by country people.