That’s very nice I’m sure,
But I only like poetry that involves the word Nantucket
Great-Great Grandfather volunteered for the 7th Wisconsin Infantry. He was late to the war, having only entered service in November 1864. But he did fight at Five Forks and was present at Appomattox Court House. And having recently arrived in the United States from Stettin, Prussia in 1848, and having left five children behind in Watertown Wisconsin to go fight, no he never owned a slave. But he did risk his life to free them.