[rustbucket]

On the other hand, prior to the war Sickles also murdered Philip Barton Key, son of the author of the Star Spangled Banner.

Someone offed Key?

Your humble narrator is distantly related to the Keys.

This humble narrator is a second cousin by blood to Chief Justice Marshall and more distantly related to the Marshall who married Robert E. Lee's sister (he was a Yankee colonel). My claim to Southern royalty, such as it is.

[Non-Sequitur]

Well, this humble narrator isn't related to anyone famous that I know of.

[WhiskeyPapa]

This humble narrator is a second cousin by blood to Chief Justice Marshall and more distantly related to the Marshall who married Robert E. Lee's sister (he was a Yankee colonel). My claim to Southern royalty, such as it is.

Wow, some of us are well-heeled. And some of us are just heels. ;-)

Walt