It is good to see family get together. As one who has studied this countries history from beginning to The War I will tell you that the adjectives used like bushwacker are those used by the damn Yankee. The beginning of the movie "Outlaw Josey Wells" is a good example of what went on in Mo. around St. Louis. The Kansas Red Legs were murders, and rapist, who didn't leave a outhouse standing. So Bushwacker isn't a good term. If your from the South and have Southern lines, you are a citizen of the U.S. at the point of a bayonet! In short, I am asking you drop the bushwacker term for your family member. He fought for Liberty and a country of his own. Nothing to do with slavery for the South. If it had been a war for such Lincoln would not have waited 2 years for the Emancipation Proclamation. He sent Gen. Freemont packing in Mo. at the start of the war because he had told the poeple of Mo. to free the slaves. Lincoln told him that the war was not about slaves and in '62 told a newspaper man who asked about the cause for the war, Lincoln said, "Where else are we going to get our revenue?" Those are the facts, folks, weather you like them or not, and your family member was on the right side.