PBS stations just finished rerunning Ken Burn's classic documentary on the Civil War. This documentary should be required viewing in American high school history classes since that period so defined the structure and essence of modern America.

In my family, scraps remain. On my Mom's side of the family (yes, Koziol doesn't seem Southern and it's not - my Dad's family came here about 100 years ago) we still have Confederate currency, a CSA sword, and other memorabilia.

My grandmother once told me that she wasn't allowed to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic in her fathers house. It was a Yankee song. My great-grandfather once told me of finding the remains of a Union patrol while laying the first telegraph lines to Miami circa 1910. My great-great-grandmother used to talk about fleeing the family farm with her parents (she was 3 or 4) in advance of Sherman in 1864.

On that nostalgic note, does anyone else have any family lore of that period?