0:00:02 > 0:00:04Singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson
0:00:04 > 0:00:06is on the trail of an heroic Civil War ancestor.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09I could not be more proud of this man.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Along the way, Kelly discovers
0:00:11 > 0:00:15the extraordinary bravery of her three-times great-grandfather...
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Oh, my gosh! He escaped.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20..and his wartime sacrifice.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23I hope people know, like, what they fought for mattered.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25And before her journey is over...
0:00:25 > 0:00:27- That's huge.- Epic.- Yeah. Wow!
0:00:27 > 0:00:32..Kelly discovers a family connection that runs deeper than she ever imagined.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35And that's what I find amazing, that we didn't know that,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38that we came from that. You know, it's in our blood.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Multiple platinum singing star Kelly Clarkson
0:01:15 > 0:01:17sprang from humble Texas roots
0:01:17 > 0:01:20before shooting to stardom in 2002
0:01:20 > 0:01:22as the first-ever winner of American Idol.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Kelly continues to dominate the charts with the powerful vocals
0:01:27 > 0:01:30and outspoken lyrics that have earned her three Grammys,
0:01:30 > 0:01:35more than 20 million album sales, and the honour of singing
0:01:35 > 0:01:38at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42When it comes to something that I really truly believe in
0:01:42 > 0:01:47and it's my gut feeling and it's right, I do not sway from that.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49I'm a very strong presence as a female
0:01:49 > 0:01:52and I totally get that from my mother.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55She put herself through...like, after her and my dad got divorced,
0:01:55 > 0:01:56put herself through college.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00Like, worked really hard, raised three kids,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03she's just a very strong individual.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06That's why I'm kind of interested about this ancestry stuff too
0:02:06 > 0:02:09cos there's got to be a whole line of us in there, you know,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12we've got to get that from someone.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14I was five years old when my parents divorced
0:02:14 > 0:02:17and our family kind of separated.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21I didn't really have a relationship with my father after that.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23I don't really know a lot about my past,
0:02:23 > 0:02:25and I'm just newly engaged
0:02:25 > 0:02:28and Brandon knows, you know, quite a bit more than I do about his family.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32It'd just be nice to learn about my past
0:02:32 > 0:02:34and have that help me for my future.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39My mother pretty recently, like, maybe the past two years
0:02:39 > 0:02:43has been gravitating and trying to find out more about our genealogy.
0:02:45 > 0:02:46I'm really excited to actually use
0:02:46 > 0:02:49all the stuff she's, you know, gathered
0:02:49 > 0:02:51'so we won't have to start from scratch.'
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Come on, Joplin.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55'I've invited her to my home from her place in North Carolina
0:02:55 > 0:02:58'and it will be super exciting to see what she's put together.'
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Well, thanks for coming to Nashville to help me out with this.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I didn't really have much connection,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07you know, when I was young, with any of our past family members.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11So I was wondering what made you all of a sudden in the last couple years
0:03:11 > 0:03:13really get into genealogy?
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Well, pretty much the same thing.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I had no connections in my family either.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21And I'm at that age where I want to know my ancestors.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26I want to know their hopes and their dreams
0:03:26 > 0:03:28and what kind of people were they?
0:03:28 > 0:03:32- Yeah.- Now, I did find some things online on the internet.- OK.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33There we go.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35You're going to go to the Rose family.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Oh, wow.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41OK, so there's me. These are your parents, Nial and Mary.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43And then it ends on Isaiah,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46- who is my great, great, great-grandfather.- Yes.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48- Right on. Is this as far as you got, right?- Yes.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- OK, so we can start from there.- OK.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52- Click on Isaiah...- All right.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55..and I'll show you some of the research I found.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56So it says 1870.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- The census, I get it here?- Yes.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01All right, so that's Isaiah Rose.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Isaiah Rose, 28,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07male, white, coal digger.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Coal miner's daughter!
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Coal miner's great, great, great-granddaughter!
0:04:12 > 0:04:15OK, so if he was 28 in 1870,
0:04:15 > 0:04:19he would have been 18 or 19 when the Civil War started, right?
0:04:19 > 0:04:22He would have been the right age to have been in there
0:04:22 > 0:04:25so you can always go back to Isaiah.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27And if he was in Ohio, then he would have been...
0:04:27 > 0:04:28- What?- ..a Yankee?
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Could have been, but you never know. You got to go back and check.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34I hope he was a Yankee, then.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35I don't want the other one.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38There's a way you can find out. Go up here to the search.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43- Search, OK.- Search and go down to military records.- Oh.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- So now put in his name. - Type his name in.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48"Isaiah Rose..."
0:04:48 > 0:04:49- and now search.- Search.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52OK.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54"Isaiah Rose."
0:04:54 > 0:04:55There's two of them at the top.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58The side - Union. Score!
0:04:58 > 0:05:0218th Regiment, infantry. He was a private.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04And the other one, which I think is the same one.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Yep, side - the Union, Ohio, 63rd Regiment.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10So it's the same guy, so he was in it twice.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12I'm wondering, did he go out and did he go in?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14How do you find out more?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16The best place to go to find,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20you know, to go to find the information is go to Ohio.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23All right. Well, thanks for the start.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- You're welcome. - You did a lot of the work for me.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27All right!
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Oh, the journey begins.- I know!
0:05:29 > 0:05:32I'll see what I find and I'll come back and let you know.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34You have to come back and tell me what you found.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37- I'm going to keep it a secret. - No.- You're not allowed to know.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39No! I have to know! I started!
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Finding out my three-times great- grandfather Isaiah Rose was fighting
0:05:43 > 0:05:47on the Union side of the Civil War - that's a relief.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51To me, the Union side was fighting for freedom for all Americans.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54I think that that's a huge thing to recognise,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57like, you know, what it is to be a free man, a free woman.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00So I'm curious, why did Isaiah Rose fight
0:06:00 > 0:06:03and what was he doing in two different Union regiments?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Because Isaiah began his service in Ohio,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Kelly is heading to the state capital, Columbus.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Kelly has arranged to meet Civil War researcher Vonnie Zullo
0:06:18 > 0:06:21at the Ohio Historical Society.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Vonnie has found some records relating to
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Isaiah Rose's Civil War service.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- Well, I'm going to be able to give you some information about him.- OK.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- So why don't we start with this envelope?- OK!
0:06:32 > 0:06:37These are copies of his compiled military service record.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41"When enrolled - April 23rd, 1861."
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Didn't the war start around then? Like, did he enrol right away?
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Yes. He enrolled right after the war started.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50- A hero?- The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter...
0:06:50 > 0:06:52- Yeah.- ..like, April 12th of '61.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- Oh, so that was fairly quickly, right?- And so right after that.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58So do you think since Isaiah joined so quickly
0:06:58 > 0:07:01that he was, you know, quite the patriot?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Is that like... Was he against slavery?
0:07:02 > 0:07:05It's really hard to know
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- exactly what would have been in his mind, you know...- Obviously.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11..as an individual solider. But I do know
0:07:11 > 0:07:16that there was a lot of patriotic feelings in Ohio, in his home town.
0:07:18 > 0:07:23In 1860, Abraham Lincoln's plans to stop the spread of the slave trade
0:07:23 > 0:07:26caused Southern states to secede and form their own confederacy.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30This ignited fierce opposition in the North,
0:07:30 > 0:07:34especially in Isaiah Rose's home state of Ohio.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36The state had a history of abolitionism
0:07:36 > 0:07:40and a network of safe houses for slaves escaping from the South.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45Ohio became a Union stronghold and was one of the top three states
0:07:45 > 0:07:48to supply soldiers to the Union lines.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51And so he might have been caught up in that movement.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52- In the high part.- Definitely.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56So this is the 18th Regiment, and he was there for three months.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59And why would you join another one -
0:07:59 > 0:08:01like, why would he go to the 63rd?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03- Well, let's take a look...- OK.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05..at the records for the 63rd.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Awesome.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09All right, so Isaiah Rose,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11"term - three years".
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Well, he went from three months to three years.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15By December of '61,
0:08:15 > 0:08:18the reality of the war had sunk in.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21So President Lincoln and his generals decided,
0:08:21 > 0:08:23you know, "This is not going to be over quickly.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26"We need more soldiers and they need to serve for longer."
0:08:26 > 0:08:29- Was that a drafted thing?- No. - Or they chose?- No, they chose.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- They chose?- He chose to go back in and re-enlist.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36I'm super proud that Isaiah chose to...
0:08:36 > 0:08:37I mean, he chose to enlist.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Yeah. Based on that he was, you know, he was patriotic,
0:08:41 > 0:08:45- he was believing in what he was... - Fighting for.- ..getting involved in,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47and very enthusiastic about it.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Well, I love that. OK.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52So, 63rd Ohio Infantry, Company F
0:08:52 > 0:08:56at Battle of Decatur, Georgia?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58I'm horrible at this.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01I can't read it. "Taken prisoner"?
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Oh, my gosh! No!
0:09:05 > 0:09:07That's horrible.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11"Taken prisoner at Battle of Decatur, Georgia,
0:09:11 > 0:09:14"July 22nd, 1864."
0:09:14 > 0:09:17So do we know...? Cos this is the last card, so what happens?
0:09:17 > 0:09:21You're going to need to go to Decatur to really learn
0:09:21 > 0:09:23about what happened at that battle.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- And what happened to him... - OK.- ..as a prisoner.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29- Thank you for your time. - You're welcome. It's been fun.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32When you're talking about men fighting in wars, you think men, you don't think boys.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35My three-times great-grandfather was 19 years old
0:09:35 > 0:09:38when he was fighting a war, you know, in his own country.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Civil War is almost worse than, you know, war from afar
0:09:40 > 0:09:43cos that's your home, you're fighting the people that you live with.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51I imagine being a prisoner of war in that time probably wasn't too cool.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52I'm just curious of, you know,
0:09:52 > 0:09:55how that went down and what happened afterwards.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57I can't wait to find out.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Kelly is heading to Decatur, Georgia, where Isaiah was captured
0:10:01 > 0:10:02during the Civil War.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Kelly has arranged to meet historian Tim Orr
0:10:08 > 0:10:10at the DeKalb History Centre.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14She's searching for information on the battle that Isaiah fought in
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and what happened to him after he was taken prisoner.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Thank you so much, Tim, for meeting with me.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Just to get you caught up,
0:10:21 > 0:10:24I've found out my three-times great-grandfather,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Isaiah Rose, was captured in the Battle of Decatur.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30And I was just curious to know if you really knew anything to help...
0:10:30 > 0:10:35The Battle of Decatur was a part of much larger military operation
0:10:35 > 0:10:36called the Atlanta Campaign.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42By 1864, three years of fighting had crushed the morale
0:10:42 > 0:10:47of the Northern states, casting doubt on Lincoln's re-election.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51In need of a decisive victory, General Sherman of the Union army
0:10:51 > 0:10:55launched a major assault on the key Confederate hub of Atlanta,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58known as the Atlanta Campaign.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Isaiah Rose's regiment acted in the Battle of Decatur,
0:11:01 > 0:11:06one of a series of bloody battles that raged over four months.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10But in early September, the Union army captured the city,
0:11:10 > 0:11:14inflicting a devastating defeat on the Confederates.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18- We do have a battlefield map of... - Oh, that's cool!- ..the engagement.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- All right.- Wow. - Do you see Decatur on the map?
0:11:21 > 0:11:23I do. Decatur.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27- All right, this where the battle action of July 22nd took place.- OK.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29The battle was kind of an important one
0:11:29 > 0:11:31because it was a fight over a supply line
0:11:31 > 0:11:33that was supplying the Union army.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- OK.- One single brigade, which Isaiah's a part of...
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- Yeah.- ..is given that task of defending this area.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41He was six miles away from the front at this point.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43He thought it was light duty,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46but in fact the Confederates kind of proved him and his comrades wrong
0:11:46 > 0:11:50and on the afternoon of July 22nd sent a force of cavalry,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53the horseman of their army - several thousand, in fact -
0:11:53 > 0:11:58from the city, around south and they came up behind the Union lines.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01And there the Confederates came out of the woods, encircled them,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04and it was probably no contest there.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07The Union soldiers either had to retreat or surrender.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Wow. OK.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12I have the battle report of the 63rd Ohio,
0:12:12 > 0:12:13which was Isaiah Rose's regiment.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16- Oh.- It discusses the action at the Battle of Decatur.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18OK. Awesome.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20So "the enemy attacked on all sides with a very superior force
0:12:20 > 0:12:23"and after two hours of hard fighting
0:12:23 > 0:12:26"we were finally driven out of the town.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28"Ten killed, 44 wounded
0:12:28 > 0:12:31"and 31 missing."
0:12:31 > 0:12:32He was probably one of the 31.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Yes, almost certainly.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35They stood their ground,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38and ultimately those Union soldiers that fell as casualties,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41killed, wounded or captured, I think made an incredible sacrifice.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43And taking on the brunt of everything
0:12:43 > 0:12:48- to actually help supply the big huge battle going on?- Absolutely.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51And there's a high possibility that if Atlanta had not fallen,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Lincoln would have not have been re-elected.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56- The Confederacy might have won the Civil War.- That's huge.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58- Epically.- Yeah. Wow!
0:12:58 > 0:13:02OK, so he's taken prisoner, so how do I find out which camp
0:13:02 > 0:13:05my three-times great-grandfather Isaiah went to?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Well, we can search for that online.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11OK. Isaiah Rose...
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Let's see what comes up.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18OK, there we go. Isaiah Rose, side of the Union.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23"Federal prisoners of war confined at Andersonville, Georgia, 1864-65."
0:13:23 > 0:13:27So Andersonville, Georgia, that's where... Is that where a camp was?
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Yes, indeed. Actually the largest prisoner of war camp in the Confederacy.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Over 45,000 stayed there during 14 months of activity.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- 45,000 people were there?- Mm-hm.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41- Wow. OK.- We have an original document, so let's give that a whirl
0:13:41 > 0:13:42and see what comes up.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44"View original document."
0:13:45 > 0:13:47All right, so what I'm noticing,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51"Isaiah Rose, private, Company F, 63rd Ohio" - that's him.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56So the column "Died, escaped,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59"paroled, exchanged or released."
0:13:59 > 0:14:03I'm noticing everybody else has, like, "exchanged", "released".
0:14:03 > 0:14:07His column says, "See volumes - miscellaneous records."
0:14:07 > 0:14:11How do you find out what happened or what those miscellaneous records are?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13I'll tell you what, I'll remain here
0:14:13 > 0:14:17- and see what I can find as to the rest of his military career.- OK.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19I think you might want to go to Andersonville,
0:14:19 > 0:14:22which is a national historic site, and see if you can determine
0:14:22 > 0:14:24a little bit about his prison experience.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Yeah. Well, all right. I'll see you soon.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34I love that Tim told me the unsung story, you know,
0:14:34 > 0:14:35for the Battle of Decatur.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38You know, I grew up playing basketball and sports and everything
0:14:38 > 0:14:41and I think that everybody always remembers the Michael Jordans
0:14:41 > 0:14:44but nobody remembers the people passing the ball.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48It's the kind of unnoticed sacrifices that Isaiah and his brigade made
0:14:48 > 0:14:51that make the big victories even possible.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55I am a little hesitant about going to Andersonville Military Prison
0:14:55 > 0:14:58because how sad is that, that all these thousands of people suffered
0:14:58 > 0:15:00after fighting for our freedom?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03To find out about Isaiah's experience as a prisoner of war,
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Kelly is visiting the location of the camp where he was held -
0:15:07 > 0:15:09the Andersonville Historic Site and Cemetery.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Today, most of the camp's original structures are gone,
0:15:16 > 0:15:18but park ranger Chris Barr is here
0:15:18 > 0:15:22to tell Kelly what the camp looked like when Isaiah was a prisoner.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Hello, I'm Kelly.- Hey, I'm Chris.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27I've been looking into my three-times great-grandfather
0:15:27 > 0:15:31Isaiah Rose, and he was taken to here, Andersonville Prison.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33I was curious, what does that mean? What are the conditions of
0:15:33 > 0:15:35a military prison in the Civil War?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37I'd be happy to help you out with that.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39This would have been the main entry point
0:15:39 > 0:15:41for most prisoners coming in here.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Our gates are reconstructed on the original spot
0:15:43 > 0:15:46so if you'd like, let's maybe walk through the very gates that he did.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Yes, sir.- And let's explore this place.- All right.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52And so as he walked in here,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55he'd be looking out across this valley
0:15:55 > 0:15:58- and just see a sea of humanity out here.- Yeah.
0:15:58 > 0:16:03One prisoner said it looked like an ant hill that had been stirred up.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Andersonville prison camp was a large fenced-in stockade
0:16:06 > 0:16:09completely open to the elements.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11No housing was provided.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Isaiah Rose and his fellow POWs
0:16:15 > 0:16:18were left to create their own makeshift tents
0:16:18 > 0:16:22for shelter from the blazing heat and winter frosts.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27With a space for a maximum of 10,000 prisoners, the camp became
0:16:27 > 0:16:30home to more than 45,000,
0:16:30 > 0:16:35making it a breeding ground for violence, starvation and disease.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40The Confederate military prison policy was simply open the gates,
0:16:40 > 0:16:42turn the prisoners in, close the gates
0:16:42 > 0:16:44- and you're on your own on the inside.- Oh, my gosh.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48I have a first-person account from a prisoner named Robert H Kellogg.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51And this is his description of what the place looked like
0:16:51 > 0:16:54when he arrived in May of 1864.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58Which is two months before my three- times great-grandfather got there?
0:16:58 > 0:17:01- Exactly.- OK.- But the scene is still going to be pretty similar.- OK.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03"As we entered the place
0:17:03 > 0:17:07"a spectacle met our eyes that almost froze our blood with horror.
0:17:07 > 0:17:11"Before us were forms that had once been active and erect, stalwart men,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14"now nothing but mere walking skeletons,
0:17:14 > 0:17:15"covered with filth and vermin.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20"Many of our men, in the heat and intensity of their feeling,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23"exclaimed with earnestness, 'Can this be hell?'"
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Wow.- And this is a photograph of a prisoner
0:17:28 > 0:17:30who was held here at Andersonville.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33And this is what he's talking about by walking skeletons.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36- This is what's here.- Oh, my gosh!
0:17:36 > 0:17:38You can see his pelvic bone.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Like, I mean, you can see...
0:17:42 > 0:17:43I don't even...
0:17:43 > 0:17:45I don't have words right now.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51I cannot imagine.
0:17:53 > 0:17:58"In the centre of the hole was a swamp
0:17:58 > 0:18:01"occupying about three or four acres of the narrowed limits,
0:18:01 > 0:18:06"and a part of this marshy place had been used by the prisoners as a sink.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08"Excrement covered the ground,
0:18:08 > 0:18:12"the scent arising from which was suffocating." Like, what is that?
0:18:12 > 0:18:16What is that? That's like, where they washed their hands, their face?
0:18:16 > 0:18:17What the sinks are is,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21that's kind of the Civil War era term for the latrines.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24- They're using...- Oh, my God!
0:18:24 > 0:18:26The restroom was the downstream end of the creek.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Then of course, the upstream end of the creek
0:18:28 > 0:18:30is where they're having to get their drinking water from.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Oh, my God, like dysentery, like, there's so much stuff going on there.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Dysentery, diarrhoea, as well as diseases related to nutrition.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41But a lot of it stems from that water.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Of the 45,000 men who walked through those gates you came through,
0:18:44 > 0:18:46just under 13,000 of them died here.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52- Making this really the deadliest place in the Civil War.- Wow.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Obviously, I'm here, so I know Isaiah survived this
0:18:57 > 0:18:59but what happened whenever the war ended?
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Like, what, they just opened the doors and people left
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- or how did that happen? - If you just take a second
0:19:05 > 0:19:08and tell me what that document says across the top there.
0:19:08 > 0:19:13"Record of escaped prisoners of war, USA."
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Of escaped...?
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Wait, row...
0:19:19 > 0:19:21"Isaiah Rose".
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Oh, my gosh! he escaped!
0:19:25 > 0:19:28"Isaiah Rose, private, F, 63rd Ohio,
0:19:28 > 0:19:33"escaped Savannah, Georgia, December 1st '64."
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I don't get it. Why does it all of a sudden mention Savannah?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38In all likelihood, what happened was
0:19:38 > 0:19:40he escaped in transit to another prison.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43They'd started to evacuate prisoners to other places around
0:19:43 > 0:19:46and Savannah was one of the places they were taking prisoners to.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Where did he go? If he escaped, like, what happens afterwards?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52The circumstances of his escape, we don't know.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55For all we know, you know, he joined up with runaway slaves.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58For all we know, he hid in the swamp somewhere. We just don't know.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02All right. I guess that means I need to go back to Tim Orr in Atlanta.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Thank you so much for all of this. This has been incredible.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- Thank you for visiting us today.- All right, have a good one.- You too.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17I think the most powerful thing about Isaiah Rose's character
0:20:17 > 0:20:18was the fact that he never gave up.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24So many people died in the 14 months here at Andersonville.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Still he persevered and he pushed through
0:20:26 > 0:20:29and survived this horrible circumstance.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33I know that Isaiah escaped in December of 1864
0:20:33 > 0:20:36but where did he go? Like, did he return home?
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Did he stay in hiding until the war ended?
0:20:40 > 0:20:43To find out, Kelly is heading back to Atlanta
0:20:43 > 0:20:46to see what new information Tim Orr has been able to turn up.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48So I learned a ton at Andersonville
0:20:48 > 0:20:52and then I kind of ended there learning that he escaped.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55I remember you saying you were going to do some research.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56I was curious if you found anything.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Well, the best source we have, that are called the pension files,
0:20:59 > 0:21:04they are sources that describe soldiers' infirmities after the war.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08And I have a document that I think you'll find interesting.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Very cool.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13"Declaration for an invalid pension.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16"On or about January 11th, 1865,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20"while making his escape from the rebel prison
0:21:20 > 0:21:23"and while approaching the Union lines,
0:21:23 > 0:21:31"Isaiah Rose was wounded by a member of the 33rd Indiana infantry..."
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- Oh, my God, he's shot? - So it would seem.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Oh! "..who mistook him for a rebel soldier or scout."
0:21:39 > 0:21:42He was shot by his own. That sucks.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44And then trying to get back, that is horrible.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46It is a spot of bad luck.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Oh, man, this shows you exactly where the bullet went in.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53- Yep.- This is an examining surgeon certificate.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56"The examination reveals the following conditions.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00"We find the scar of the gunshot wound of the left leg,
0:22:00 > 0:22:02"scar three inches long,
0:22:02 > 0:22:05"ball entered about four inches above the knee."
0:22:05 > 0:22:09He says he has "pains when walking or standing,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11"disability permanent."
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Man, to be so young and be disabled, you know, so quickly.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19And then you have your whole life kind of ahead of you,
0:22:19 > 0:22:21that would have been really intense.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24There's this Patty Griffin song, like, I Will Never Give Up.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26That's the name of the song and it totally reminds me,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28that's one of my favourite songwriters.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31And it's cool, like, that was him.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Quite a being I'm related to, so...
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Mm-hm.- Whew!
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Yeah, I mean, he seems fairly indestructible.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41You know, and I often like to think about it this way.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Also, we want to remember
0:22:43 > 0:22:47- the accomplishments that generation made...- Yeah.- ..for the long run.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50They freed 4 million Americans kept in bondage,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52and they preserved a government
0:22:52 > 0:22:54where the people decide who leads them.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57And, you know, the fact that that government still stands today...
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- Yeah.- ..where you and I can participate in it
0:23:00 > 0:23:02is an incredible legacy.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06I think what's really amazing and why I'm so emotional about it is
0:23:06 > 0:23:09I just got to perform at an inauguration for a man...
0:23:13 > 0:23:17..that would have never been able to be President
0:23:17 > 0:23:20if it weren't for, you know...
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Mm-hm.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25..the sacrifice of my, you know, three-times great-grandfather.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Mm-hm.- I'm so crying about it, but it's happy tears.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32I'm just so emotional because it's like... I wish and I hope,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35you know, somewhere, not only my three-times great-grandfather
0:23:35 > 0:23:39but all those people know, like, what they fought for mattered.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42I think if he were alive today,
0:23:42 > 0:23:43Isaiah Rose would be quite proud
0:23:43 > 0:23:46- of his great, great, great-granddaughter.- Yeah. Pff!
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Isaiah Rose was a patriot from '61 when he first volunteered
0:23:54 > 0:23:57whenever Lincoln called for volunteers. He did it.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00He stayed in the war the entire time.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03He mustered out in, you know, '65 and mustered out a hero.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05You know, he survived so much
0:24:05 > 0:24:09and helped keep these United States these United States.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12I'm definitely starting to feel the connection, and feel like, you know,
0:24:12 > 0:24:15I am Isaiah Rose's three-times great-granddaughter.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Because I'm still a patriot in my own sense.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Like, I still feel like I know what is right
0:24:20 > 0:24:23and what is wrong in my heart, and I go for it regardless.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25And that had to have come from a long line, you know,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27of people that believe like that.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32I'm just really grateful that that's my past.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40To begin exploring Isaiah's life after the Civil War,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Kelly is following his trail home to Washington County, Ohio.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Kelly knows from her mother's research
0:24:54 > 0:24:55that Isaiah was a coal miner -
0:24:55 > 0:24:58a difficult profession for a man with a war injury.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03To find out if his disability affected his livelihood,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Kelly is visiting the Washington County Archives
0:25:06 > 0:25:08to meet genealogist Josh Taylor.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- Ooh, I'm so excited.- So you're looking at a family folder,
0:25:13 > 0:25:15which is basically a folder of documents gathered by
0:25:15 > 0:25:18potential other relatives, people who visited and did research here,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- all about Isaiah Rose.- Oh, cool! OK.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24"The Leader, Marietta, Ohio,"
0:25:24 > 0:25:28"Tuesday, August 31st, 1886."
0:25:28 > 0:25:31So he'd be about 43, 44 by now?
0:25:31 > 0:25:35"Sheriff Rose, during his official career..."
0:25:35 > 0:25:38That can't be him, right? Or...
0:25:38 > 0:25:39What do you think?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41He's a sheriff?!
0:25:41 > 0:25:44He's like Tombstone?! He's a sheriff?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47What does that mean? I'm so excited!
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Oh, my God, OK, wait.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53"So say we, Sheriff Rose during his official career the past two years
0:25:53 > 0:25:54"has made hosts of friends.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57"He believes that public office is a public trust.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01"That he will be re-elected by a larger majority than two years ago
0:26:01 > 0:26:04"is a conclusion accepted by both political parties."
0:26:04 > 0:26:06So sometime around 1884,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09he ran for office, he ran to become the county sheriff,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12won the election, so now he's being re-elected.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Because he's so popular! Right on.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17All right. "The Daily Register,
0:26:17 > 0:26:22"Marietta, Ohio, Wednesday, November 8th, 1905."
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- So he's probably 63, 64?- Mm-hm.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27OK.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Oh, my gosh! Is this his picture?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Oh, my God!
0:26:31 > 0:26:34I didn't know that was his picture!
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Oh, my gosh, that's what he looked like.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Senator IR...
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Senator?! He was a senator?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Mm-hm, state senator.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46I'm sorry, I can't...
0:26:48 > 0:26:50"Late advices from the district show
0:26:50 > 0:26:55"the election of the Republican candidate for Senate, Isaiah R Rose."
0:26:55 > 0:26:56This is Lincoln's party,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59I mean, he's a state senator as part of Lincoln's party.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Oh, my gosh!
0:27:02 > 0:27:04So he fought for Lincoln as a kid,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08like, grew up, became a man in the military in the Civil War,
0:27:08 > 0:27:12then back to the same party just still believing in the Union
0:27:12 > 0:27:14and became a senator, a state senator?
0:27:14 > 0:27:18I could not be more proud of this man.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19What in the world...?
0:27:19 > 0:27:23And you can just see in his eyes in this picture - like, what a life.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Oh, my goodness.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31So is there a way to find out what he was a part of politically?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- Like, what kind of laws he was part of?- Absolutely.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35For the next step, you can visit a colleague of mine
0:27:35 > 0:27:37- actually in Columbus, Ohio.- Oh, OK.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40At the state house there. And keep in mind when you're there,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42you'll be walking literally in his footsteps.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Well, I can't wait to find out. Oh, my goodness.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- Thank you very much, Josh.- OK.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50I just love how much drive I'm seeing.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54I mean, he was this young kid in the war and he's shot, he has a bum leg.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56And he just still was a survivor.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00And then worked his way up, you know, to be a sheriff, and then a senator.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I'm very driven, and I think that's because of my family.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09And it's cool to find out how far back that strength comes from.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I'm really just curious to know what laws he got behind.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Because I'm very, you know, hardcore in my beliefs.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16And I hope I can stand behind,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19you know, what he believed in politically as well.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26Kelly is heading back to Columbus, to the Ohio State House,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29where she's meeting political historian Tom Pegram.
0:28:31 > 0:28:36Tom has been doing some research on Isaiah Rose's Senate career.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Would you be interested in seeing his office?
0:28:38 > 0:28:41- Oh, definitely, yes, please. - Let's go.- Yeah.- Let's go see it.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43All right! Is it this way? OK.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46I can't believe I'm going to see where his office was. That's so cool.
0:28:46 > 0:28:50- This was his office, this is where he worked.- Thank you.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Are you kidding me?
0:28:54 > 0:28:57SHE LAUGHS
0:28:59 > 0:29:00Yeah, not too shabby.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Oh, my goodness.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04That is amazing.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09This is, like, extremely intimidating.
0:29:11 > 0:29:12I sing in front of people all the time
0:29:12 > 0:29:16but I would be scared to death to talk in this room.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18This is where he sat in 1906
0:29:18 > 0:29:21at the beginning of his three-year term as senator.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22That is so weird that I'm, like,
0:29:22 > 0:29:25sitting in a room where he was. That's super weird!
0:29:25 > 0:29:28So is there any way to find out, like around that time,
0:29:28 > 0:29:31what laws he was, you know, for?
0:29:31 > 0:29:32Or like, what he was trying to pass
0:29:32 > 0:29:35or what kind of legislation he was involved in?
0:29:35 > 0:29:39These are newspapers from Ohio in the early part of the 20th century.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42- OK.- Those are the best records of political debate
0:29:42 > 0:29:44and political issues in the state.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47"The Repository, Friday, March 1906."
0:29:47 > 0:29:50- So this is pretty early on in his political career?- Yes.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53- This is like, freshman year?- Yes.- OK.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56"Hot Talk From Rose - Senator Rose of Washington County,
0:29:56 > 0:29:59"the strongest temperance advocate in the senate."
0:29:59 > 0:30:02- What is the temperance? - The temperance movement at this time
0:30:02 > 0:30:05was a large movement in Ohio and elsewhere
0:30:05 > 0:30:09- to restrict or even eliminate the liquor industry.- Oh!
0:30:10 > 0:30:13So he's a part of the people that don't want liquor?
0:30:13 > 0:30:15He is indeed a part of that.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Oh! Hiccup in the ancestry department!
0:30:18 > 0:30:21So he's, like, trying to wipe out all liquor?
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Actually saloons, retail saloons.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27They didn't attack individual drinkers so much. The idea was
0:30:27 > 0:30:31that the liquor industry, and that saloons, were for men mainly.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34Woman were generally not allowed.
0:30:34 > 0:30:35Yeah.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Pay cheques were cashed in saloons
0:30:37 > 0:30:39and men spent a lot of time drinking in saloons.
0:30:39 > 0:30:44There was a great deal of domestic violence that accompanied drinking.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46This was also seen as a women's issue.
0:30:46 > 0:30:51The argument was, the saloon then was hampering their family life,
0:30:51 > 0:30:54their children's lives, health, safety.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58Well, right on. I'm glad he's for women. That's awesome.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02"Senator Rose several weeks ago introduced a county option bill."
0:31:02 > 0:31:05So what is the county option bill?
0:31:05 > 0:31:07County option gets the issue down to the local level.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09It allows the people themselves
0:31:09 > 0:31:12to decide whether they want to regulate saloons or not.
0:31:12 > 0:31:13OK. "Thursday morning,
0:31:13 > 0:31:15"February 27th, 1908."
0:31:15 > 0:31:18Yes, this is the last year of his term. He has to act.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20Yeah. I bet he's pushing hard. OK.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22"After more than two hours' debate,
0:31:22 > 0:31:25"the house this evening passed the county option bill
0:31:25 > 0:31:30"introduced and championed by Senator Isaiah R Rose of Washington County.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32"The measure will now go to the governor
0:31:32 > 0:31:35"and it is generally expected that he will sign it."
0:31:35 > 0:31:37Oh, my gosh, he actually got it to pass.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39He got it through the legislature. Now it's up to the governor.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41There would be a ceremony here,
0:31:41 > 0:31:44there would be a lot of rejoicing from the temperance people.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47It would go to the governor's desk, the governor was co-operative
0:31:47 > 0:31:49- and he did sign it.- He did?- Yes.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52That is so exciting. And he's a freshman senator,
0:31:52 > 0:31:54- you know, when he started this.- Yep.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57And being a freshman senator, I'm imagining that would be unheard of?
0:31:57 > 0:32:01- They are usually very unassuming. They don't rock the boat.- Yeah.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03He put a motor on the boat.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05I love it!
0:32:05 > 0:32:07He has fire! That's awesome.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12OK, so I'm imagining since he is a freshman senator
0:32:12 > 0:32:14and he was kind of rocking the boat,
0:32:14 > 0:32:16he made a lot of enemies on the other side.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20How do you know, like, if he continued in his political career?
0:32:20 > 0:32:23- Did he get re-elected? - Well, let's see.
0:32:24 > 0:32:29"The Marion Weekly Star, Saturday, November 11th, 1908."
0:32:29 > 0:32:31So November, so this is election time.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34"Senator Rose Down And Out."
0:32:34 > 0:32:36Oof! Not a good headline.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39"The official count is in for the Ninth and Fourteenth districts
0:32:39 > 0:32:44"and Senator IR Rose, father of the Rose county option bill, is defeated.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47"Semi-official returns proclaimed Rose's election,
0:32:47 > 0:32:50"but the count beats him by 32."
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Not a lot.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54So wait, it's saying that people thought he won
0:32:54 > 0:32:57so they were already saying, like, congratulations?
0:32:57 > 0:32:59The original reports were that he had won.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02They were celebrating, and then the formal count came out
0:33:02 > 0:33:05and he had lost by, you know, less than three dozen votes.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09- Oh, my goodness!- Isaiah Rose became the particular target
0:33:09 > 0:33:12of the organised liquor industry and its supporters.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16They pooled their resources, and they got him out of office.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny, it doesn't surprise me
0:33:19 > 0:33:22that he went down fighting for something he believed in
0:33:22 > 0:33:25because he kind of had that whole past.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27He definitely was the guy that, like,
0:33:27 > 0:33:29stood up for what he believed in and fought for.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31So what did he do now?
0:33:31 > 0:33:34- Well, we have one more document. - Oh, the book.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38"Washington County, Ohio to 1890."
0:33:39 > 0:33:44"The grandparent I remember best was Isaiah R Rose."
0:33:44 > 0:33:45So this is just like an account book
0:33:45 > 0:33:48of people putting together all their knowledge?
0:33:48 > 0:33:51- Yes.- Of their families? - Local communities would do that.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Oh, my gosh!
0:33:53 > 0:33:55"Isaiah R Rose family."
0:33:55 > 0:33:58- So that's Isaiah Rose right here? - Yes, it is.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01In the middle? Oh, my goodness!
0:34:03 > 0:34:07"In 1866, he married Melissa Ellen Crawford.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10"They made their home in Coal Run and raised a family of seven children."
0:34:10 > 0:34:12Man, they had some kids, didn't they?
0:34:12 > 0:34:14- Yes, they did.- Whew!
0:34:14 > 0:34:17"His death came on Thanksgiving Day,
0:34:17 > 0:34:22"November 26th, 1916 at his home.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26"He lies in historic Round Bottom Cemetery near Coal Run."
0:34:30 > 0:34:31(Wow!)
0:34:33 > 0:34:37That's Coal Run, Washington County, that's not far from here, right?
0:34:37 > 0:34:39No, that's not far. It's outside of Marietta.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42Well, this is his story. I just finished it up.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46Thank you so much. Now I know, like, where he's buried.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48And I would really love to go see it.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- All right, well, thank you very much, Tom.- OK.
0:34:51 > 0:34:52Good day!
0:34:52 > 0:34:54'It's cool to know and relay back with my family that
0:34:54 > 0:34:57'my three-times great-grandfather did not abandon anything.'
0:34:57 > 0:35:02You know, he was so relentless in his morals and in his beliefs.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04It makes me feel just really proud,
0:35:04 > 0:35:06and know why, you know, I stand up for things.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08It's because it's in my blood.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19The coolest part now is, you know, I'm at the end of his journey
0:35:19 > 0:35:22and now I get to see where Isaiah, you know, rests in peace.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26And I get to go visit his grave, and I'm pretty stoked about that.
0:35:28 > 0:35:33'Just to like, you know, have a cool ending to such an amazing journey
0:35:33 > 0:35:35'that I've been on, you know, finding out about his life.'
0:35:35 > 0:35:38Oh, my God, this is like, my whole family.
0:35:48 > 0:35:49Prentice C Rose...
0:35:51 > 0:35:53Prentice C Rose.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55Oh, my goodness!
0:35:55 > 0:35:59Leslie Rose! That's my two-times great-grandfather!
0:36:01 > 0:36:03I did not expect to find you here.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08So it's like a Rose graveyard.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Mary Rose. Melissa Rose...
0:36:17 > 0:36:19Oh, my goodness.
0:36:21 > 0:36:23Isaiah R Rose.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28I'm your three-times great-granddaughter. What's up?
0:36:28 > 0:36:30I brought you these.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Oh, my gosh.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39I just took a long journey, man.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42You have had a well-lived life.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Thank you so much for being just such a...a hero.
0:36:48 > 0:36:52'You know what, you would think that coming to pay respects'
0:36:52 > 0:36:54would be a sad part of this journey
0:36:54 > 0:36:57but oddly enough, it's been just a celebration for me.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00All right, love you.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04'My mother and I, you know, I started this journey off,
0:37:04 > 0:37:07'we're not really connected to our families.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10'I mean, her maiden name is Rose, so to walk into this cemetery'
0:37:10 > 0:37:16and see just what a life and legacy that name is, it's pretty amazing.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20This whole thing has made me just kind of feel like, way more connected
0:37:20 > 0:37:22than I thought I was going to be.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25I think everybody should do this because it has just lit a fire in me
0:37:25 > 0:37:29and I'm very excited and it's just cool to know your story.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32You know, not your own, but your family's.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36Kelly's journey was started by her mother's research.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40So she's heading back to Nashville, to tell her what she's discovered.
0:37:43 > 0:37:44I can't wait to show her
0:37:44 > 0:37:48the strength and perseverance that exist in our family line.
0:37:48 > 0:37:49- Hi, Mom!- Hey, sweetheart.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52'And I'm hoping my discoveries about Isaiah will give her
0:37:52 > 0:37:56'the sense of family connection that she's been looking for.'
0:37:56 > 0:37:58At the beginning of this, I was like, my mother's so strong
0:37:58 > 0:38:00and I'm a pretty strong individual,
0:38:00 > 0:38:03there must have been people in our past that were just as strong.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05And what's funny is to find out that
0:38:05 > 0:38:07your two-times great and my three-times great-grandfather
0:38:07 > 0:38:10Isaiah Rose is really the pillar of strength with our family.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12He signs up to be in the Civil War.
0:38:12 > 0:38:17- He got taken prisoner. Have you ever heard of Andersonville Prison?- Yes.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19You have?!
0:38:19 > 0:38:20Yes. That was a horrible place.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24- It is mind-blowing when you go there. - You went there?- Yeah.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27One in three soldiers that went into Andersonville died.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30I mean, you have to really want to live
0:38:30 > 0:38:34- to get through something like that. - Yeah.- That is amazing.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39'I think my mother and I, we're both really very honest with the fact
0:38:39 > 0:38:42'that we don't feel really connected at all with our families.'
0:38:42 > 0:38:45And I think it was cool to be able to show her a story of how,
0:38:45 > 0:38:48you know what, we come from a long line of strugglers
0:38:48 > 0:38:50but at the end of the day, we survive.
0:38:51 > 0:38:56And then he ends up running for Senate.
0:38:56 > 0:38:57I know.
0:38:57 > 0:39:01Just amazing, this guy that is always kind of up against the odds,
0:39:01 > 0:39:04you know, and just... and doesn't get knocked down.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07But you see, that's why I wanted to look.
0:39:07 > 0:39:09- I wanted to know about our ancestors.- Yeah.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12I wanted to know, do we have any of those traits?
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Yeah. And we do.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18- I know.- And that's what I find amazing, that we didn't know that,
0:39:18 > 0:39:20that we came from that. You know, it's in our blood.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24'It's innate that you need family.'
0:39:24 > 0:39:27Although I've tried a couple times previously in my life
0:39:27 > 0:39:30to mend some fences either with my father or other people in my family,
0:39:30 > 0:39:33like, I think it's just time... You know what,
0:39:33 > 0:39:36maybe it's that thing where it's like Isaiah, you just don't give up.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39You just keep trying and keep trying.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42I think that that's a very powerful thing.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44I'm glad you got to do this.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47This was the coolest thing I've by far done in my life,
0:39:47 > 0:39:50finding out, like... I think it's the coolest thing anybody can find out.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51Finding out where you come from.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55- And I can't wait to figure out what else we can find out.- I know.
0:39:55 > 0:39:59- Yeah. You want to hug it out? - Yes.- Bring it in, team hug.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01- Thank you, baby.- All right.