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WHY I VOTE TRUMPALL THINGS SOUTHERNKEVIN MCKINLEYMcKinley2971@yahoo.com In an era when political vitriol is at fev...

09/26/2024

WHY I VOTE TRUMP

ALL THINGS SOUTHERN
KEVIN MCKINLEY
[email protected]

In an era when political vitriol is at fever pitch, and the country is as divided as it has ever been, we face a choice. Each side blames the other for being the cause of the division but after studying American politics and history for a lifetime the choice I make is Trump; the reasonings of which are outlined below.
Because the United States, as we currently know it, is corrupted in its politics from the top down we need a change.
Establishment politics permeates every layer of our society in a manner that doesn’t reward ingenuity or creativity but instead in a manner which pushes ambition, self-advancement and self-interests to the top with more loyalty owed to the party than the country.
The Establishment isn’t necessarily Democrat or Republican, and it’s not every politician in the nation’s capital but it’s a conglomeration of an entrenched, powerful leadership who went to D.C. as elected officials and became insanely rich during their stint in government and who thereafter go into the private sector and make ever more money while the rest of us fight COVID, take care of dying family members and deal with insane inflation as the world collapses around us.
Whether it’s the “wink and the nod” of contractors with lobbyist connections in government or one friend or relative getting another friend or relative a job in government it’s all based “not on what you know but who you know,” as the old saying goes and if it doesn’t sicken you, it should.
Consider The Power Elite, a 1956 book by C. Wright Mills, the writer warns against a country of interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate and political elements of American society which leaves the ordinary citizen relatively powerless and subject to manipulation by those three entities. I propose to you that this is the unfortunate current state of political life in this country.
President Eisenhower warned of such when he left office, citing the growing danger of the “Military Industrial Complex” which wielded great power over elected government and could influence wars for the benefit of contractors.
Today some would say a “Medical Industrial Complex” also exists which in some ways determines who lives and who dies in medicine; some would say based upon a cost calculus that does away with the elderly and sickly. I see Trump as a check on these interests.
As to all the above, I tire of a government of entrenched, wealthy politicians detached from the day-to-day affairs of their populace, who rule through government agencies and who bend the rules for some and manipulate the rules against others.
Because this elite ruling caste makes decisions which are not in the best interests of the populace we need change. Even as an idealistic college kid in the early 1990s, it was obvious to me that NAFTA was a death sentence for American manufacturing.
The Establishment loved the North American Free Trade Agreement because they made money from shipping American manufacturing offshore where environmental protections and unions didn’t exist, and goods could be made with child and prison labor while a “wink and a nod” was exchanged as the large container ships traveled the ocean with their cheap goods bound for American consumers with less and less purchasing power. We need leadership that will bring manufacturing back to our shores.
Trump’s tariffs would spur the growth of industry at home, providing for better paying jobs which result in greater purchasing power by Americans.
Greater purchasing power at home for Americans is better than greater purchasing power for those nations who hate us abroad and nowhere is this truer than in the energy sector.
It never made sense to me that elements in the government would attempt to curtail oil and gas production in the US. Yes, we need to expand all energy options, but when the average worker can’t afford the gasoline to make it to work while an ocean of oil and gas lies beneath the very ground they are standing on, it is an insanity and a dereliction of duty on the part of a nation’s leadership to not improve their plight.
It also makes no sense to set a defective example in the international community by allowing things such as the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to occur. I watched the fall of Saigon unfold on television as a child; I thought we learned from history but instead I watched the events of 1975’s Saigon disaster repeat itself on cable news as Kabul fell to the Taliban and a generation of women were returned to the darkness of burkas and totalitarianism at the hands of a radical Islamist state.
Meanwhile America’s enemies waited in anticipation of weak American leadership so as to seize Ukraine and Taiwan.
Likewise, it makes no sense that unbridled, unchecked immigration has damaged the security and integrity of the borders of this country as it places a strain on infrastructure, services and resources.
Whereas regulated, proper immigration brings talents and hard workers into a nation, the opposite can be said of open borders where the jails of other nations are emptied to have their inmates dumped on America.
None of the above woes can be laid at the feet of Trump. Some have pointed out the members of the Republican leadership who have lined up against him. An easy answer for this is that they are part of the same Establishment that doesn’t want to see their boat rocked by an anti-Establishment President in office.
There’s no shame in wanting your homeland to be successful and it’s hard for anyone to argue that Trump doesn’t put America first while his opponent would prefer to put Americans last. In closing, Trump took a bullet for his beliefs while his opponent took a check for hers.
All Things Southern marks 20 years of columns in The Tri City Ledger in January of 2025-Thanks for Reading and contributing your comments and suggestions to this writer. Be sure to check out Southern Shadows and Dust on You Tube for more stories from SW Alabama and NW Florida.

05/10/2024

BLOOD IN THE RUST ALONG COWPEN CREEK
ALL THINGS SOUTHERN
Kevin McKinley

Last week we looked at the 100th anniversary of the Farmall tractor and it brought personal reflection of years past when a Farmall H plowed the fields and rolled up the wooded trails along Cowpen Creek at our place.
It also conjured stories I heard growing up of how dangerous farm life could be back in the day. I could remember in my own time when my dad lost the tip of one finger on a home-made riding lawn mower, he modified it in the early 1970s but history was repeating itself on that simple homestead between Canoe and Robinsonville even in those days.
My grandfather had a “Kwik-Cut Saw” a forerunner to the modern chain saw. It was a saw on a push trailer which had a huge blade like a sawmill which would be pushed to a tree and thereafter the huge blade would rip the tree down.
It was sometimes hard to start in the winter and more than one user would start it by grabbing the belt which ran from the pulley to the blade and giving it a good sn**ch. On one winter’s day my grandfather, dad and uncle were on the north bank of Cowpen Creek cutting wood with the saw when my grandfather grabbed the belts and the engine somehow sn**ched back, pulling his fingers into the pulley, and cutting off two of his digits.
My uncle said they walked swiftly back across the woods, the pasture, and the field to the old Model A Ford and took off for Dr. Trehern’s in Atmore. My grandfather wrapped his hand in a t-shirt and held his hand out the window, dripping a trail of blood along the red dirt roads on the way to town.
I can remember my dad adding to the story years ago saying that my grandfather returned to the location of the incident and buried the digits he left behind in that he was afraid ants stinging the severed fingertips would be felt as phantom pains.
Another near miss on the farm occurred with an old hay rake. My grandfather cut a hitch for the rake yearly from trees in the creek bottom and then would hook it to a team of mules to cut hay. That way he always had a solid tongue hitch which hadn’t dried out and wouldn’t break as he rode it in the field.
One year, while in somewhat of a hurry to rake whatever hay or crop they were gathering he hooked the rake to the mule and into the field he went. Along the way the tongue hitch broke, throwing him to the ground, along with the mule and trapping him in the forks of the rake. The scene was one of a man trapped out on a limb as the mule kicked into his torso and brayed chaos as the animal lay trapped on the ground while two young boys caught in the clutches of fear tried to save their father.
My uncle said he was nine years old, and my grandfather yelled for him to grab the reigns of the mule, which he did, but in that he was such a young boy the mule slung him like a rag doll in a dog’s mouth as the animal struggled to break free. Between my dad and my uncle, the two young boys managed to wrestle the mule loose, free their father and another trip to Dr. Trehern’s revealed my grandfather had several broken ribs and he remained laid up for months from the injuries. He was in his 60s at the time.
It was such a different time than today. Yet in another way, the 1950s weren’t that long ago. When considered in the great historical context of the pyramids, the War Between the States or other events of human history it was only 70 years or so ago. Yet when one considers REA (now Southern Pine) ran power through the Robinsonville area in the 1950s, it seems ancient. In the years before they had electricity, they used propane refrigerators, had hand drawn wells and spring water on this humble but sacred piece of ground.
My grandfather moved here in 1936, having spent half his life in Monroe County but living the other half on ground purchased at the height of the Great Depression and held onto through blood, toil, and tears. He had an infant child burned to death in a house fire, shed his blood in these fields and although I was around 2 years of age when he passed I feel like I knew him from seeing the things he left behind.
When you work in your gardens, fields, and backyards this summer season remember to put some thought into safety.
Thanks for reading.

Below: An old hay rake with a story.

MONROE COUNTY BOYS AND MEN MEET THE YANKEESKevin McKinley, AdjutantWilliam Carney CampSons of Confederate VeteransMcKinl...

04/26/2024

MONROE COUNTY BOYS AND MEN MEET THE YANKEES
Kevin McKinley, Adjutant
William Carney Camp
Sons of Confederate Veterans
[email protected]

Following the Confederate victory at Chickamauga, Bragg bungled his chance and soon lost Chattanooga which saw Grant successful at Lookout Mountain and eventually gave way to the burning of Atlanta and Sherman’s brutal March to the Sea.
Pvt. John William McKinley and cousins were among the Confederate forces which sought to delay, harass, and attack Sherman on his march.
John William McKinley’s brother, James Monroe McKinley of the 36th Alabama Infantry Regiment fought at Lookout Mountain and later went with General John Bell Hood on his disastrous invasion of Tennessee.
During a 2007 visit to the Franklin, Tennessee battlefield a park ranger told me the 36th was in the line to go up to the battle but darkness fell and this likely saved the regiment from being decimated in the carnage.
After the defeat of Hood's army at Nashville, and the stalemate between Lee and Grant at Petersburg, the war entered a turbulent era as the death throes of the Confederacy began. Caught in the middle of this chasm were Southerners who faced a ravaging Union army and a society staring at the abyss of destruction.
Among the soldiers from this area that were thrown into this man-made hell was William Robert Black of the 5th Alabama Infantry. His unit had endured the deprivations of the Virginia theatre and now faced an uncertain future.
Black's unit followed Gen. Jubal Early on a daring raid behind enemy lines and crossed the Potomac. The result was the Battle of Cedar Creek. The unit lost heavily and wintered at Petersburg. Petersburg proved to be a foreshadowing of World War I with its trench works and artillery bombardments.
The siege of Petersburg would last for 9 months. Behind the Confederate lines civilians and soldiers died of starvation and disease while basic consumer goods reached incredibly high prices on the Richmond streets.
Meanwhile, in the western theatre, Confederate soldiers and civilians fared no better. In 1861, boys such as John William McKinley (16 years old) rode a horse to Claiborne, AL and enlisted in the 1st Alabama Cavalry. His brothers James Monroe and Ambrose McKinley, walked from Monroe County to Mobile, along with the Stacey brothers, to join the 36th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Four years later, the boys had turned to weathered men in the wake of the greatest war ever fought on the American continent.
By April 1865, John W. McKinley had been captured and released from Camp Douglas, IL; wounded at Chickamauga, and was now involved in the desperate attempt to stop Sherman's march through the Carolinas. The men of the 1st Alabama, along with the rest of General Joseph E. Johnston's army, would rally for one last victory at Bentonville, NC before retreating into the North Carolina interior.
In Alabama, the men of the 36th (including James Monroe, Isham McKinley, and the Stacey brothers) had walked home from Nashville and Franklin after Hood's defeat. After returning to South Alabama, the 36th joined with others to fight at Spanish Fort and Blakely. As Confederate forces gathered in Baldwin County, Union forces rushed to meet them.
On March 28, 1865, Union forces left Canoe Station and marched west as the distant rumble of cannons beckoned them to Baldwin County. As Spanish Fort fell to the Union, a daring group of Confederates risked capture by holding back a sea of blue so that others could escape to Blakely.
Thereafter, in the dark night, men such as Allen Jefferson Driskell and other men of the 18th Alabama, slipped quietly into the swamps around Spanish Fort and made their way to Blakely. As the storm clouds of war formed over Blakely, Union forces are said to have quartered their horses in the Montgomery Hill Baptist Church where hoof prints in the floor are said to be visible until this day.
As Baldwin County faced the Union juggernaut, US Army troops under the command of Gen. Lucas invaded Monroe County. The forces advanced through Eliska and marched pass the Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church which had been constructed during antebellum days. Union cavalry then raided Claiborne.
The courthouse was ransacked, and the flag of the Claiborne regiment seized. The 15th Confederate Cavalry, consisting of GW Emmons, Wm. Odom, and others fought a retreating action through the swamps around the town. Now the people of Monroe County would face a Union army bent on raiding their homes and farms.
The people of Monroe County had known the deprivations of war time even before the Yankee cavalry arrived. Due to shortages, women would often gather dirt from smoke house floors and sift for left over salt. Coffee was brewed from substitutes such as sweet potatoes.
As the end of the war drew near, residents in the area and local sons on distant battlefields waited for the war's conclusion which was rapidly approaching.
The men now returned from war and the veterans sought to return to their families and live “under their vine and fig tree,” as the I Book of Kings at 4:25 says.
John William McKinley returned to Monroe County Alabama after marrying Nancy Wells in 1865.
He farmed and worked as a railroad laborer and begat sons and daughters. John William McKinley rested with his fathers in Monroe County on March 13, 1904. He is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Mexia.
James Monroe McKinley settled in Clarke County where he worked as a logger. He was married twice, his first wife passing away. Among his children was Jeff McKinley who passed at age 102 in 2002 and was the oldest living true son of a Confederate veteran at the time of his passing. James Monroe McKinley, Jeff McKinley and other McKinley descendants of James Monroe McKinley are buried at Liberty Baptist Church at Fulton, Alabama in Clarke County.
Isham McKinley moved with his family from place to place after the 1880s. He eventually ended up living in the area around Dauphin Island where he delivered the US Mail by sailboat. He died in 1902 and is buried in the old Methodist Cemetery on the island.
George Washington Emmons is buried off of Rawls Road which is off of Highway 113 north of Flomaton.
Allen Jefferson Driskell returned to his pastor duties as a Primitive Baptist preacher and is buried at Shiloh Cemetery which is along the road between Frisco City and Perdue Hill.
Today the Woke mob would seek to dehumanize and deconstruct the proud history of the South and her people. This should be insulting to people of all races and heritage whereas it seeks to divide and espouse hate. Yet when you read of the very human stories of these men, who fought the Federals because they were here and attacking their home states, it changes the context of our understanding of the times and the men. Thanks for reading.

Below:
Confederate veteran Rev. Allen Jefferson Driskell and wife

Monroe County Boy Wounded at ChickamaugaKevin McKinleyMcKinley2971@yahoo.com By September 17, 1863 the stage for t...

04/19/2024

Monroe County Boy Wounded at Chickamauga
Kevin McKinley
[email protected]

By September 17, 1863 the stage for the Battle of Chickamauga was set. Longstreet’s desperate and fatigued men had arrived in the area after a two-week train ride from Virginia. Forrest, Bragg and nearly all the best Confederate officers and regiments now converged on the tiny town of Crawfish Springs which was the site of battle along Chickamauga Creek. Within 48 hours the greatest Confederate victory in the West would be won.
Many of our Confederate ancestors were at Chickamauga in that a great call went up to move men and supplies to support this Southern effort against the Federals from all quarters of the Southern nation.
Men from one regiment would be marching down a mountain road as another regiment was moving along and soldiers would recognize one another from home. The men would shout to one another in passing and ask about this relative or that relative back home.
Flowing through this sea of humanity along the battlefield was a simple creek. Chickamauga Creek winds its way northward after crossing the La Fayette Road at Lee and Gordon's Mill on the Georgia side of the line. The first large scale action took place on the 18th between the cavalries of Bragg and Rosecrans.
The terrain was utterly unsuited for such a battle as most of the area was virgin forest. A historian by the name of Steele wrote of these early hours of battle: "Neither army knew the exact positions of the other...It is probable that division commanders on either side hardly knew where their own commands were, in the thick woods, let alone the other troops of their own army, or the troops of the hostile army. The lines were at this time about six miles long."
Further adding to the confusion was the arrival of Confederate reinforcements from Longstreet's corps which had arrived on the same day and Longstreet himself who arrived the next night.
During these early hours the cavalry of Joseph Wheeler and the 1st Alabama Cavalry deployed as well.
Wheeler’s men had fought Rosecrans with daring raids from behind the Union lines throughout the last months and now the men felt jubilant to finally be giving the enemy a frontal thrust instead of a blow to the back.
Among the men was Pvt. John William McKinley who served as a messenger for a Confederate officer and who was wounded around this time from an exploding shell bursting above his position. A makeshift hospital was established to the east of the town of Crawfish Springs and many of the wounded were carried to the facility.
The next day, September 19th, saw the Federals in control of the roads and bridge crossings which had to be taken if the Confederate offensive was to reach fruition. The Confederate goal was to secure the bridge crossings along the creek and the Southern commanders were willing to pay any price to gain control of the crossings.
The fighting that morning started with an attack by Union General Thomas, who believed he was attacking only a small force under cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest to his front. The fight expanded and lasted throughout the day as Bragg and Rosecrans engaged more of their armies.
Throughout the day of September 19th, the battle swirled back and forth as both sides continued to commit division after division into the swirling mass of battle. Eventually the Federals were pushed back beyond the Lafayette Road.
As night fell on the 19th, Rosecrans consolidated his forces to form a compact defensive line. Bragg planned to resume the fighting on September 20th by attempting to envelop the Union left flank.
Bragg was once again unaware of the military situation when he met Longstreet later that night and told him “The troops have been engaged in ... severe skirmishing while endeavoring to get in the line of battle."
As the fading embers of the sun sunk below the western horizon on the night of the 19th, the Confederate soldiers encamped in the overgrown ravines and hill sides of north Georgia took comfort in having held their own against Union forces during the day’s fighting.
The wounded, such as Pvt. John William McKinley, rested their wounded bodies in make shift hospitals along the edges of the battlefield while commanders such as Bragg, Longstreet, Forrest, and other Confederate generals stood silhouetted against the night sky as they discussed strategy against campfires which seem to echo the heat of the day’s battle.
Elsewhere on the battlefield, John William McKinley’s brother-James Monroe McKinley and his regiment would soon battle “above the clouds.”
At this apex of history these men stood as giants. Bragg had held his army together on the march from central Tennessee, Longstreet had survived the meat grinder of Gettysburg, and Forrest had wrecked havoc on Union forces from Mississippi, through Alabama and now into Georgia.
During the coming days a victory would be gained, an opportunity lost, and Forrest would threaten the life of the blundering Bragg but for this night the Southern cause savored victory in the shadow of Lookout Mountain and the north Georgia woods.
April is Confederate History Month; learn history-not propaganda. Thanks for reading All Things Southern for 19 years in The Tri-City Ledger.

Artillery overlooking Chattanooga.

MONROE COUNTY BOY RETURNS TO WARALL THINGS SOUTHERNKEVIN MCKINLEYMcKinley2971@yahoo.com Last week we left 17 year ...

04/12/2024

MONROE COUNTY BOY RETURNS TO WAR
ALL THINGS SOUTHERN
KEVIN MCKINLEY
[email protected]

Last week we left 17 year old John William McKinley, cousin Isham and another McKinley cousin in the Camp Douglas prisoner of war camp near present day Chicago.
The McKinley cousins from Franklin, Alabama had been captured at the Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862, most likely while serving as replacements in the Wiggins Battery, an Arkansas Light Artillery Battery that was assigned to the 1st Alabama but which had suffered massive casualties while riding in support of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Forrest was a daring and fearless cavalry man. He lacked formal military training and had made a fortune in the cotton trade before the war. He joined the war as a private but came to believe the men commanding his regiment were there because of who they knew and not what they knew. He left after his short enlistment and used his millions to equip his own cavalry regiment. He had 30 horses shot out from under him in the war and killed 31 men in hand-to-hand combat stating that he was “horse ahead” at the end of the war. It was the most any man during the war could say when he said, “I rode with Forrest.”
According to Joe McKinley the boys were involved in a detachment sent to burn a bridge on the battlefield and captured by the Union forces who swept the field in that area.
Camp Douglas was a terrible place for the young Southerners from Monroe County Alabama. Men died daily from disease and filth. Things were so bad that Chicago citizens often helped the prisoners escape or took them supplies.
Lincoln closed the camp in May 1863 for a time and the men were swapped for Union captives. The Southerners were sent to Virginia where they were swapped. John William returned to the 1st Alabama but Isham was sent to a Confederate military hospital at Tunnel Springs, GA suffering from a severe nutritional aliment from his time in the camp. The South takes much criticism for prisoner camps such as Andersonville, GA. Yet the South was losing the war, couldn’t feed her own soldiers and civilians.
Meanwhile the Union was winning the war and there was no excuse that proper medical care and adequate food could not be provided to Southern POWs throughout the North.
Upon his return to the 1st Alabama, John William McKinley and the cousins were soon on the march again. General Longstreet, a Southern general from Virginia made a rapid march to the Chattanooga, Tennessee area by rail and on foot to take his men slamming into the Union forces seeking to secure Chattanooga and move into Georgia.
Soon, thousands of men from the South would be concentrated in a relatively small area as they sought a great Confederate victory around Crawfish Springs.
Next week, battlefield injuries, events at home and the war takes a vicious turn.
April is Confederate History and Heritage Month; study history-learn from history.
All Things Southern marks 19 years of columns in The Tri City Ledger in January of 2024-thanks for reading.

Pictured below: Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest

MONROE COUNTY BOY CAPTURED IN TENNESSEEALL THINGS SOUTHERNKEVIN MCKINLEYMcKinley2971@yahoo.com A 16-year-old John W...

04/05/2024

MONROE COUNTY BOY CAPTURED IN TENNESSEE
ALL THINGS SOUTHERN
KEVIN MCKINLEY
[email protected]

A 16-year-old John William McKinley rode a mule to Claiborne, Alabama and enlisted in the 1st Alabama Cavalry regiment. He was assigned to Company H Welles Volunteers. This company rode es**rt for General Joe Wheeler. Many Monroe County boys were in this regiment.
McKinley served as a shelver, this term denotes he was a battlefield courier, responsible for delivering messages from an officer to other officers on the battlefield. In an era before satellite or radio communications, these young men served as the eyes and ears to their commanders.
The regiment saw action at Shiloh. It was here that General Albert Sydney Johnson fell mortally wounded. He led a charge against the Union lines and came back shot up. A simple tourniquet would have saved his life, but he had sent his personal physician to attend to wounded Union prisoners.
The confusion caused by Johnson’s death cannot be overstated. The Union forces capitalized on it and was able to turn a defeat into a victory. There were more losses at Shiloh than at all other US wars combined to that point in history. It was a bloodbath. It has been said there were so many dead bodies across the battlefield that a person could walk across the field and never touch ground.
Adding to the surreal scene was that after dark fell hogs fed on the dead and dying on the battlefield. As a spring thunderstorm boomed over head the hogs could be seen in between lightening flashes as they did their gruesome work.
Union troops were buried in a special cemetery. Grant refused to allow Southern families to collect their dead but ordered the Confederate dead buried in mass graves, sometimes a dozen men deep. Today the pristine woods around the Shiloh battlefield are a peaceful place but beneath its grounds is blood soaked fields and the cries of men who fell in the springtime of their youth.
After a time, the battle hardened men of the 1st made their way to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where in late December 1862 Confederate General Bragg would bumble a chance to defeat his Union nemesis and lose central Tennessee in the process. It’s not what you know but who you know which is what could be said of Bragg’s ability to stay in command, and it is a sad testament to the loss of good men under such circumstances and a warning from history to political appointments and the good old boy networks of today.
It was at this battle, also known as Stone’s River in the Union lexicon, that John William McKinley, Isham Benjamin McKinley and another cousin were captured near a creek on the battlefield. If you are researching an ancestor, it is important to note that you will not find a record of a Confederate prisoner of war in your state archives. This is because these were Federal prisoners. It is always good practice to check with National Archives in Washington, DC to check for prisoner of war records. The results can be surprising.
The men were sent by cattle car, along with countless other captives to Camp Douglas, Ill. Forty Acres of Hell would become its nickname. Yet at this point in the war some of the prisoners could get day labor in the city of Chicago. The good people of Chicago would also slip in goods to the prisoners and in some instances help them escape.
The Camp Douglas concentration camp lacked proper sanitation and the men’s cots (if they were lucky enough to have one) set mired in raw sewage. Food, rations, and medical care was not forthcoming to these men and many died. A local cry went up to Lincoln to do something about the condition of the camp and he began to look into it.
As the teenage boys John William McKinley and cousin Isham huddled with their compatriots at Camp Douglas, Isham developed a form of rickets and the boys struggled to help one another. Meanwhile, national events were about to sweep the boys up into political wrangling and war time intrigues.
Next week: Prisoner exchange or death in the prisoner of war camps of the North.
All Things Southern marks 19 years of columns in The Tri City Ledger in January of 2024-thanks for reading!
Below: Shiloh Battlefield 2019; at the location where the 1st Alabama Cavalry stood.

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