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To: BroJoeK
I see your one-time "senior moment" has now evolved into "stuck on stupid" -- unless by "Montgomery" you refer to Davis' capital in Alabama, you meant to say: Union Maj. Anderson.

Montgomery was indeed Davis's first capital. There's also the old story that Maj. Anderson's daughter and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair's son had a love child, who became the mother of the actor Montgomery Blair. She believed it anyway.

More trivia: the once-famous writer George Plimpton was the descendant of Benjamin Butler, Adalbert Ames, and Oakes Ames, two Civil War generals and a politician from the same era. The two Ameses were not related.

1,135 posted on 01/28/2020 5:31:56 AM PST by x
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To: x

Adalbert Ames died at 98 years old in April 1933, He was the last Regular Army General of the Union Army to die


1,136 posted on 01/28/2020 6:48:13 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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