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simply obeyed orders and submitted ourselves to the higher powers for they are ordained of God.
The history of the Civil War from the Branyon side was even more sketchy, though Daddy summarized a bit of it in another of his books, My Life in Education:
Both of my Grandparents fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confed- eracy. In addition, six brothers of my Grandfather Branyon went to war. One was killed at Gettysburg and another at Chattanooga. There is no record of how the others died. Only two returned. My Grandfather Smith was captured in the battles around Richmond and imprisoned in New York City for a long time. He was finally released from prison on the condi- tion that he would go to the Dakotas and fight the Indians.
He fought, survived and returned. Sources show one of the brothers released nineteen slaves after the war including a giant named Ligo who had cost $1,000. Another of the brothers, Commander William Branyon,
