First good laugh from this thread (besides the OP).
Perfect!
The good one from the other thread (see my link just above) was feckless’:
“I figure we owe them at least one more for Yoko Ono.”
Back in the late 80's, I was doing research on the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments in the Civil War. I managed to track down the great- nephew of Robert Gould Shaw, who was the Colonel of the 54th, and died on Morris Island, S.C. on July 18, 1863. To make a long story short, the relative happened to be an elderly Episcopalian Priest named Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, who lived in Lenox, Mass., same place that Colonel Shaw's widow was buried. I told him of my interest in Shaw, and he invited me to visit him at him home in Lenox. What an interesting person, and family history. Besides his relationship to R.G. Shaw, Shaw's sister Ellen, who had also lived in Lenox, and who Rev. Whitman remembered visiting as a little boy, was married to General Francis Channing Barlow, of Gettysburg fame (Barlow's Knoll), and later NY State Attorney General who defeated the Boss Tweed Ring. She was his second wife. As well, his father's sister had married Anthony McAuliffe. At the time, I hadn't heard of him, so he told me about the General's "Nuts" message to the Germans. I've since honed-up on my WWII history.
I also learned that Rev. Whitman's father and grandfather had been prominent surgeons in NY City.
Rev. Whitman had paintings of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather hanging on the walls in his dining room. He kindly let me take photos of them. His great-grandfather was Colonel Royal Emerson Whitman, connected with the Camp Grant Massacre in Tucson, Arizona in 1871. A group of vigilante civilians with the help of Mexican Indians attacked a settlement of Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who had surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona. After the attack, Whitman tried in vain to bring the perpetrators to justice, but all for nought. It took the jury a very short time to acquit the group of 100 individuals. Whitman is also known for the invention of the Whitman Saddle. Before the Civil War, he was a manufacturer of saddles. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery. His headstone was completed by Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mt. Rushmore. Here's Whitman's wikipedia page if you're interested:
And here is the wikipedia page to the Camp Grant Massacre:
I can also recommend the book: "Vast Domain of Blood by by Don Schellie (1968).