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This has come up before, but... on 09:09 - Jan 8 by Northolt_Rs
‘Helen Viola Jackson married James Bolin in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93’
Now that’s true love!
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As it says in the piece, the main incentive was that you could claim a widow's pension for life for a few year's nurse-maiding, a big deal during the depression. Even if you could get a job then, deflation had lowered wage rates while war pensions had not been cut. A lot of the women were single mothers in dire straits, though not in this case. One of the most famous "Confederate widows" had two kids with her new husband but later married her late husband's grandson, assumed locally to be the real father. "Are you my Dad, or my nephew?"
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This has come up before, but... on 09:45 - Jan 8 with 1921 views
I am currently watching the PBS Civil War series and it has been fascinating. Abe Lincoln doesn't come across very well with his handling of the war in it and, IMO, if Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson & Jeb Stuart had fought on the Union side the war wouldn't have lasted six months. Episode 5 has the daughter of one of the black soldiers reciting a poem, she was 104 at the time of the recording.
The grass is always greener.
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This has come up before, but... on 09:45 - Jan 8 by Esox_Lucius
I am currently watching the PBS Civil War series and it has been fascinating. Abe Lincoln doesn't come across very well with his handling of the war in it and, IMO, if Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson & Jeb Stuart had fought on the Union side the war wouldn't have lasted six months. Episode 5 has the daughter of one of the black soldiers reciting a poem, she was 104 at the time of the recording.
It's hard to comprehend now, but the pre-war US Army was tiny and had only fought one war in over 40 years (against Mexico in the 1840s). Almost the whole officer class happened to come from the South, so Northern politicians who were able to persuade local men to enlist were initially allowed to lead them, with some predictable but calamitous results. Can you imagine Colonel Farage, or General Jo Swinson?
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This has come up before, but... on 09:45 - Jan 8 by Esox_Lucius
I am currently watching the PBS Civil War series and it has been fascinating. Abe Lincoln doesn't come across very well with his handling of the war in it and, IMO, if Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson & Jeb Stuart had fought on the Union side the war wouldn't have lasted six months. Episode 5 has the daughter of one of the black soldiers reciting a poem, she was 104 at the time of the recording.
I've mentioned this book before but the excellent 'Team of Rivals' backs that up to a large degree. In it, it seems clear that Lincoln - understandably, perhaps - left the war to his generals but he was far too loyal to the many incompetent generals he inherited or appointed, prolonging the war by many years as a result.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
This has come up before, but... on 09:45 - Jan 8 by Esox_Lucius
I am currently watching the PBS Civil War series and it has been fascinating. Abe Lincoln doesn't come across very well with his handling of the war in it and, IMO, if Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson & Jeb Stuart had fought on the Union side the war wouldn't have lasted six months. Episode 5 has the daughter of one of the black soldiers reciting a poem, she was 104 at the time of the recording.
Oi no spoilers!! I am on episode four ;)
Yeah the Union should have finished it early but General McClennan didn't have the bottle to see through their early advantage.
Been to Gettysburg numerous times playing in soccer tournaments. My team won a final and the locals turned on me telling me to go back to Baltimore. It’s a bit rebel flag and Harley Davidson yet an interesting place.
Did a tour and the most memorable comments were about the rivers of blood running down the streets and local streams, horrific.
Was up in Breezetown PA last week selling my rims and tyres. On the way back stopped at Hancock and Williamsport. Civil War stuff everywhere. The West Virginia border with Maryland, Baltimore Ohio railway and canal. I’ve been to museums (every smallish town has one) and have been told the story how animal trails, then became American Indian trails, then routes for new settlers with horse and wagon, then main roads creating towns to major highway arteries linking America. Fascinating and beautiful scenery.
had some family that fought and died in that war,one died on Bone island pow camp not sure where that was and another got injured in a skirmish got better then got killed in some battlehe was in a virginian regt and his name was Lewis Gommon but i cant find anycivil war website where you put the name in and find out stuff
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This has come up before, but... on 19:39 - Jan 8 by bollockchops
had some family that fought and died in that war,one died on Bone island pow camp not sure where that was and another got injured in a skirmish got better then got killed in some battlehe was in a virginian regt and his name was Lewis Gommon but i cant find anycivil war website where you put the name in and find out stuff
You can try to Google 'the civil war soldiers and sailors data base' its run by the US govt and its free to use. They have records of men who enlisted on both sides.
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This has come up before, but... on 19:39 - Jan 8 by bollockchops
had some family that fought and died in that war,one died on Bone island pow camp not sure where that was and another got injured in a skirmish got better then got killed in some battlehe was in a virginian regt and his name was Lewis Gommon but i cant find anycivil war website where you put the name in and find out stuff
If he was in the 5th Vermont from 1861, he would have already been through some of the bloodiest battles of the war: Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg before the Wilderness.
Battle of the Wilderness was an inconclusive slaughter in a forest in Virginia that had been fought over before - I think Stonewall Jackson died there the year before. What was different was that Grant accepted his casualties and pressed on as he knew the Confederates could spare them less as their army was so much ch smaller and less able to survive a prolonged war of attrition.
This has come up before, but... on 10:14 - Jan 8 by BrianMcCarthy
I've mentioned this book before but the excellent 'Team of Rivals' backs that up to a large degree. In it, it seems clear that Lincoln - understandably, perhaps - left the war to his generals but he was far too loyal to the many incompetent generals he inherited or appointed, prolonging the war by many years as a result.
The Tony Fernandes of American politics
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This has come up before, but... on 19:39 - Jan 8 by bollockchops
had some family that fought and died in that war,one died on Bone island pow camp not sure where that was and another got injured in a skirmish got better then got killed in some battlehe was in a virginian regt and his name was Lewis Gommon but i cant find anycivil war website where you put the name in and find out stuff
My paternal grandfather was born in 1872 and joined up in 1890 for the household cavelry.My dad was the youngest of 9 siblings and was born exactly the same day as the queen(21/04/26),and his dad a year or 2 later,32 years before I was born. We have his old army book and he was still in the army until 1917.He must’ve got a lot of leave to have had 5 kids by then.
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