tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160021015821033799.post7971385958421948186..comments2024-03-13T13:10:03.122-04:00Comments on Writing Life Stories : Did Your Ancestors Serve in the War Between the States?Glenda Beallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17953170428175025248noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160021015821033799.post-80423403059037964602012-06-10T22:09:23.561-04:002012-06-10T22:09:23.561-04:00Lise, I agree. It doesn't make a bit of sense ...Lise, I agree. It doesn't make a bit of sense to go to war if we want peace.<br />Communication could work so much better than war, but the old men who make war seldom want that, it seems.Glenda jBeallhttp://www.glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160021015821033799.post-33416155965301112112012-06-10T22:06:32.248-04:002012-06-10T22:06:32.248-04:00I have letters from my father written to my mother...I have letters from my father written to my mother. The letters were simply written and exposed the lonliness of a man in love with a woman he couldn't afford to marry. But a couple of years later he wrote letters to his pregnant wife who lived with her parents. He vowed he'd find a way to get her to Florida where he worked.<br />The letters are touching, but I doubt they qualify as historical documents.Glenda Beallhttp://www.glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160021015821033799.post-57159872625598546642012-06-10T11:02:59.288-04:002012-06-10T11:02:59.288-04:00I was fortunate to inherit the letters of my pater...I was fortunate to inherit the letters of my paternal great grandparents. My great grandfather and his cousins served under Nathan Bedford Forrest. He lived through the "War Between the States" as my grandmother used to call it. When I asked a historian after a lecture what I could do with the letters, he suggested the Southern History Collection at UNC Chapel Hill. They're there now. The papers of John Price Thurman and Sallie Ecklin, interesting the librarian told us because the wife's letters have been preserved as well as her husband's.JLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14417274472131471333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160021015821033799.post-53294044464142058652012-06-09T17:17:50.020-04:002012-06-09T17:17:50.020-04:00I have family members who have served in the milit...I have family members who have served in the military, but only one second cousin by mariage who has served in a war, and he is in Afghanstan. Thank you to all who have served. <br /><br />And no, I don't understand war one bit. I did not see that show, but I surely don't know why we have kill each other in the name of peace. Does not make one lick of sense to me. <br /><br />My motto...let there be peace!Lisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12431245561712781037noreply@blogger.com