Germans in Confederacy

It is interesting that Germans fought not only in WWI & II but also in the Civil War or War Between the States in US.

Both sides had paid soldiers, I believe as well as spies. I told my husband that is the reason the Confederates lost because they could not understand the Germans when they asked which way did the Yankees, go, lol.

My 2nd great grandfather Jacob Haysmith Hydrick from Orangeburg County, SC was a Major in the Confederate Army. He at one time was stationed in Columbia, the capitol & center of SC & my home town. He was 43 at that time.

He & his first wife, my gr. gr. grandmother Margaret Hildebrand had 8 children including twin girls, like we have. The twins names were Mary & Martha. One dying at 12, we think of Typhoid fever. Margaret died at 57 & Major Hydrick married a woman 43 1/2 years younger than himself & younger than all his children. They had 6 children.

Margaret Hildebrand Hydrick's two brothers Andrew Jackson Hildebrand & Daniel Leonard Hildebrand were surgeons in the Confederate Army. They too survived the war.

I am interested in family history.