Kevin Costner's ancestor was a Union soldier, spent time at Andersonville

Actor, producer and director Kevin Costner, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” came out this week, is a descendent of a Civil War soldier, John F. Tedrick, Ancestry told Today.com.

The genealogy company found that Costner is related to a Union soldier who survived Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest Confederate prison during the Civil War. Tedrick is Costner’s second great-grandfather. 

Costner's film is set in Set in the American West during the Civil War. -- Article