[Non-Sequitur]

The Northern Army took anything that wasn't nailed down here (Grant's wife took 20 wagon loads of furniture from this town alone) and burned the rest.

Now couldn't we just have had a nice discussion slamming Dodd for sticking his nose where it don't belong without injecting southron myth into the mix and making into another Southern rebellion thread?

[vetvetdoug]

The Whitfield Plantation was razed along with the rest of the town to outfit the whims of Grant's wife. There is ample documentation of her taking the furniture to Memphis and shipping it back to Galena. The Confederate Cavalry stopped her and commented and thought she was running from the Union taking her treasures and that she was the ugliest woman many of them had ever seen. The Cavalry later found out that the woman had been Grant's wife. The Whitfields petitioned after the war to have their possessions returned to no avail. Looks like the effort to free the slaves also was to free we Southerners of our furniture.