The Children of Bryant Collins (1814-1862) and Mary Morgan (1815~1910)
Brother vs. brother in the American Civil War
Bryant Collins was the son of Thomas Collins and Nancy Williams. He married Mary Morgan by about 1837 and had 11 children. They were both from North Carolina, but Bryant had numerous land grants in Letcher Co., Kentucky, along Alum Cave creek and then the Rockhouse Fork in the 1840s and early 1850s. During the American Civil War, some of their sons enlisted in the Union Army, while others volunteered for the Confederate Army. The allegiances for some changed after Bryant was murdered in his own farmyard by Confederate soldiers under the command of Col. Benjamin Caudill.
The Collins children, according to censuses and birth and marriage records, were (for full references, see My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 2):