Faced with tough choices as the Civil War raged just outside his front door, Everett Baugh persevered, and he stayed. But why? Why, indeed.
The Invisible Line
I traced the long line of the Baugh family lineage with an expectation of how things might have been. I wasn't prepared to discover how things really were.
A Bluer Shade of Gray
Family members thought Confederate soldier William H. Baugh was killed in action during the Civil War. If that was true, how did he contact his brother almost fifty years later, and why was he collecting a Union pension?
The Map to Frederick
Mistakes keep us humble, don't they? How about the time I researched the wrong ancestor because I didn't look at a map? Yep...that happened.
Dangerous Assumptions
William Bass was too young to serve in the Revolutionary War, or so I assumed. I was wrong.