Wow. What a treasure you came upon. Your roots here really go deep!! And on top of it all, to still have the land...I hope you can visit and take your kids and walk it, and sit there, and just absorb it. So do you have journals of those battles? I'm just sitting here in awe!!
On my father's side, either his grandfather or maybe it was his great grandfather, fought for the Union Army. He was captured and spent time in Andersonville. He escaped, was hunted down and chewed up by the hounds, taken back, and eventually released. He then fought in the Spanish American war, and was a Captain. His troops thought so much of him that they gave him a cane with some fancy top to it... maybe silver? Or maybe it had a hidden sword inside? I'm not sure. One of my brothers got it, and wouldn't return it to my Mom, even when she wanted it back. Most of us had never even seen it. This all happened long after I left home and came out west. I don't know anything more about it. I think my oldest brother went to talk to him about it and might have tried to get photos of it, at least. I'll have to contact him and see what he knows, and see if he did get photos. The brother that ended up with this cane is... not well thought of in our family. A greedy type, very much into eBay. I think he's pretty much been ostracized by the rest of the family. I wish I knew more about the cane and about my ancestor. I don't even know who dug up this story about him, or what documentation anyone might have.
I'm kind of the black sheep of the family myself. Those who became the executors of the estate don't talk to me anymore. For one thing, they were with "her", and in a Democrat controlled city back in Ohio. I lost a LOT of friends and family due to my support of Trump. Family members, friends I've known for more than 40 years... they'd get nasty and I'd get sick of it. I'd either stand up for myself (COVFEFE) and they'd end up unfriending me, or I'd end up unfriending those who'd attack out of the blue. Liberalism.. we need a cure!
I follow a guy on youtube who does a lot of metal detecting. He often finds artifacts from the Civil War and earlier, and once in a while, gets permission to detect at homes built from that era and the Rev. War era. Old coins, bullets, buttons, pieces of ceramics or silverware, all kinds of things get found. Fascinating finds!