User:Kackalacky
Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!
- P.G.T. Beauregard
The motives which led you to the Southward
are too laudable and too important not to meet my approbation.
- George Washington
Welcome, I thank you for browsing my personal page, and I hope you enjoy any contributions I have made to Wikipedia. My username derives from the word Cackalacky, a curious term of obscure origins that has come to be a synonym for Carolinian.
Who I am
[edit]I was born in Charleston, SC. to an old American family and I spent the majority of my childhood between two of my family's plantations in the Peedee region of my home state, with stays on other family's lands as well as our home in Charleston itself. I was raised largely by very wonderful Methodist grandparents who did all they could for me, both in terms of pampering and my education. Today I enjoy a variety of things, particularly the ocean, video games, reading, and writing.
Familial History
[edit]My family arrived in Virginia in the late 17th century, coming from England. Upon the outbreak of our Revolution my forebears took up arms and joined the Continental Army. They served all across the original colonies, and one of my great-uncles led his regiment into the last charge against the British redoubts at Yorktown. My direct ancestor would go on to become a representative of South Carolina after the war. My kin would fight in a dragoon regiment under Jackson at Pensacola and at New Orleans. When the war between the states came they faced an unimaginably tough decision, but ultimately couldn't side against their home states. My paternal three-time great-grandfather died of fever in Virginia just a few weeks shy of Chancellorsville, though my maternal three-time great-grandfather and all of his brothers survived the war. A cousin of ours from Louisiana fought in the Tensas Cavalry as a lieutenant before being wounded by a fall of his horse and being taken out of the war in late 1863, he would later go on to write a memoir of his life and of the war. My two-time great-grandfather and his little brother fought in WW1, taking part in the Hundred Days Offensive. My great-uncle fought in the Pacific Theatre for the entirety of the war, earning a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. His little brother served in the Korean War aboard a bomber. My uncle and various cousins took part in the Vietnam War.
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