I’m going on 71. My parents started taking me to Shiloh
when I was a young child. My great-great grandfather had
fought for the Confederacy at Shiloh. Back then, “The
Bloody Pond” was still a very dark old blood, dark brown
color from where the wounded and dying from that battle
crawled down to wash their wounds.
My grandmother once asked my great-great grandfather when
she was a small child, “Grandaddy, did you kill anybody
at Shiloh?”
He told her, “Izora, I don’t see any way I could have
kept from killing people even if I’d wanted to. Shiloh
was such a mess!”
The pond has faded over time; but it was once a deep dark
brown bloodstained reminder of that battle.
.......I’m just curious. Do you agree that Nikki Hailey’s take down of the Confederate Flag dishonors our grandfathers and the men on both sides that fought each other hard for their beliefs, right or wrong, in the Civil War?