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jtdragon wrote:

My mother went to collage in Gainesville, Ga in the mid 30's. One Sunday afternoon she had tea with Gen. Longstreets last wife who died in 1968. She was 21 when she married the very old Gen. in 1904/5.
My Grandfather as a young boy knew Gen Joe Kreshaw in Camden, SC. Kreshaw was one of Lee's better Div. Commanders but you hear very little of him.

The Civil War, which seems so long ago in history, was not really that long ago. Some of us more "mature" forum members could have talked to civil war vets.

Amish John wrote:

The Civil War, which seems so long ago in history, was not really that long ago. Some of us more "mature" forum members could have talked to civil war vets.

Now that would have been something !!!



Chamberlain

Chamberlain wrote:

Amish John wrote:

The Civil War, which seems so long ago in history, was not really that long ago. Some of us more "mature" forum members could have talked to civil war vets.

Now that would have been something !!!



Chamberlain

No kidding! That would be an experience of a lifetime!! B)

Chamberlain wrote:

Amish John wrote:

The Civil War, which seems so long ago in history, was not really that long ago. Some of us more "mature" forum members could have talked to civil war vets.

Now that would have been something !!!



Chamberlain

That is one of the reasons that the books by Bruce Catton were so successful...he spent hours and hours of his youth "interviewing" and listening to the old stories told by the veterans of his hometown. Then he incorporated them into his writings providing "first-person" accounts and human interest stories.

I was never fortunate to have visited a CW warrior, but did spend some time in the last century with a widow of one who had accompanied her husband to the last Gettysburg reunion. She lived in Table Rock, NE, about a stone's throw from the depot where I spent some time as a train-order operator. Like Longstreet's last wife, her marriage was a May-December arrangement that turned into a love affair AFTER the marriage ceremony was performed. A very gracious lady who loved to share her husbands stories.