thankyou all for your sentiments  And congratulations to you as well Ami! As for the sectional question, my son will live and die for the union! His birth will save a nation!! I'm already looking for the smallest yank uniform I can find 
__________________ "In mortal combat, a man may and will become so infuriated by the din and dangers of a bloody fight that his heart will turn to stone and his every de sire [be] for blood."
John Hadley, 7th Indiana after the battle at Port Republic |