>>3727720>What's a typical last name for some of the Confederate old blood?Greer, Patton, Anderson, Cook, Bragg, Watkins, Burgwyn, Armstrong, Turner, Rice, Baldwin, Surrett, Boggs, Chambliss, Cheatham, Chilton, Chestnut, Quantrail/Cattrell, Shelby, too many to list really, just an average sampling of American surnames, leaning most heavily towards Scots-Irish or Germanic, most of these are just names I personally know
Take a look at the names of counties in states like mine, remove the counties named after Indians, and most of those can be included too. There are of course plenty of surnames associated with Indian heritage (Lunsford is a great example) that were involved in southern politics, but those tend to be adopted European names or occupational names more broadly representing the socio-economic status of well integrated families like the Lower Creeks and less representative of the more conservative/traditional families like the Upper Creeks of the early 19th century (the Red Sticks of the Creek War for example)
My county is named after a Connecticut born Lieutenant, Joseph M. Wilcox, who was killed and scalped by Muscogee (Creek) warriors here during the Red Stick War; the county was ceded to the United States as part of the outcome of the war.
The Indian wars in Alabama were very bloody for people of every skin color. Within the average American's understanding of history, they think of the Indian wars as having mostly occured further west and later in the 1800s, but the largest and bloodiest battle between Europeans (Spanish) and Indians occured in my neck of the woods (Battle of Mabila, exact location is unknown though. Chief Tuskaloosa tried to bait the Spanish into a reverse Trojan Horse, invited them into a village stuffed to the brim with warriors, but the Spanish were so slow-moving that their scouts had time to figure out the plan and burned the whole village to the ground.)
(apologies for being all over the place; history be like dat)
