Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Union And Confederate Veterans Together

This photo was taken on the steps of the Haywood County Courthouse in Waynesville, NC a few years after the end of the Civil War. In the group are local veterans from both sides in the war. Liberals who auto-condemn anyone who lives below the Mason-Dixon line need to take a moment and study that photograph and contemplate what the immediate survivors of that war learned.

2 comments:

anonymous said...

"Liberals who auto-condemn anyone who lives below the Mason-Dixon line need to take a moment and study that photograph and contemplate what the immediate survivors of that war learned."

Especially in Western NC. Wilma Dykeman's "French Broad" showed that there were many on the Union side all up and down the mountains, so much so that Union enlistees from one border Tennessee town got an official send-off. (She said those in Asheville had to leave more quiet-like, but were still known about and tolerated)

Bob Harrison said...

Thanks for Dykeman pointer. I've got a copy on the way.