What if it had been Nun's Life?..............
The two have drawn on sources — census reports, news items, a Boys’ Life magazine article, a history of Elmwood, even a newly rediscovered 64-page memoir Robinson narrated in 1858
One of their primary sources is a Boys' Life magazine article? Okay, I'm very skeptical.
This war “hero” has FRAUD written all over him. His account was published in 1858 by Abolitionists in Chicago. Miraculously, this slave/war hero was with George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, met President Franklin Pierce in DC, had a medal pinned on him personally by Revolutionary War hero LaFayette, etc. Only a PC reporter from a major newspaper would publish this story.
“This guy lived to be 115? I’m somewhat skeptical.”
The man lived until 1868.
By oral tradition, and here it gets sketchy, he is said to perhaps been a guide that led Stonewall Jackson’s column on the long march to attack Hooker’s flank at Chancellorsville.
Well, it could have happened that way.
What if it had been Nun's Life?..............