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To: Smokin' Joe
Gettysburg is HALLOWED GROUND for BOTH sides!

fwiw, my ancestor was PVT William James (Little Thunder) Freeman, late of the First Cherokee Mounted Rifles & the Fourth Missouri Partisan Rangers & REBEL, to his marrow.

"L.T." would be HIGHLY OFFENDED by this ATROCITY against the memory of BRAVE men.

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22 posted on 02/16/2006 9:40:57 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
"L.T." would be HIGHLY OFFENDED by this ATROCITY against the memory of BRAVE men.

As am I, regardless of which army they fought for. I was surprised, frankly, that the damaged unit monuments were to Northern units, but regardless, this is an obscenity.

BTW, if you are interested, at gutenberg.org, under

Author: Annie Heloise Abel (Smith College)

Title: The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War (published in 1919)

Release Date: June 6, 2004 [EBook #12541] , the book is available for download for free. direct link to the download page

I cannot attest to the accuracy of the volume, (I have not had time to read it), but it caught my eye while I was browsing there, and may be of your interest.

65 posted on 02/16/2006 10:57:39 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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