Tag: slavery
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Journal Entry – This is murder; bring those troops back
This phrase was spoken by General William Tecumseh Sherman at the battle of Vicksburg, and this phrase speaks volumes on the human character. It is this type of phrase that people have a hart time understanding. Why would rational troops go blindly against a fortification knowing that they were going to died? During the Gettysburg…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Day Eighteen
The silence is deafening. This is how I felt at about 3:00 today setting in my truck in the packing lot of Melrose National Historical Park. As the handout states, “a cotton kingdom estate.” Just imagine a 132-acre plantation with a labor force of 28 people. (The owners, the McMurrens, had five plantation with 1,000…