First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.
Posting history, in reverse order
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Link to previous New York Times thread
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His cousin, Gen. Richard B. Garnett, was killed participating in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.
I’m always very ambivalent reading articles like this because my great grandfather, his brother and his brother’s son met at my Grandpa’s house after Sunday lunch in Spicewood, Texas in 1861 and rode off to join the Texas 6th which Lee himself admitted that he came to depend on.
4 years later, only my great grandpa came back. If he had not, I would not be typing this email.
My great grandpa wrote letters that said....”I never came even close to affording a slave”, but...”I’m not going to let these “damn yankees” push Texas around” (I’m paraphrasing).