Little Sorrel

[FarawayFriend]

I hope and believe that won't happen. When I toured his home the tour guide was so knowledgable and happy to tell wonderful stories about Jackson such as his nightly walks from his home through downtown Lexington. It was a wonderful experience, listening to all the fond, heart warming stories about the man. Seeing the actual walking stick he used on his nightly walks leaning against the wall is if it were left there in that spot by the man himself.

Indeed!
And as I said before, I did discover an entirely new side in him there. Somehow I always thought him a miser and very narrow-minded, but that was just one side if him (when he gave lessons and probably was too insecure to stray from the verbatim repetition of his text). The other side was that he was an accomplished, cultivated gentleman who was eager to self-improve and who cared for the education of slaves in Sunday school. He had even toured Europe to widen his mental horizon before he proposed to his second wife. The visit of his home was very enlightening to me and made me understand Jackson a little better (although I still have to read that brick of a book, the biography on him by James I. Robertson you had recommended to me years ago. But it sits on my shelf already!!)

 

[TSJ]

I hope and believe that won't happen. When I toured his home the tour guide was so knowledgable and happy to tell wonderful stories about Jackson such as his nightly walks from his home through downtown Lexington. It was a wonderful experience, listening to all the fond, heart warming stories about the man. Seeing the actual walking stick he used on his nightly walks leaning against the wall is if it were left there in that spot by the man himself.

I went to stonewall's house in 2016 with my wife and absolutely loved it. I was planning to take a friend the next spring but he was diagnosed with brain cancer and went to be with the Lord before we got to go.

 

[War Horse]

Indeed!
And as I said before, I did discover an entirely new side in him there. Somehow I always thought him a miser and very narrow-minded, but that was just one side if him (when he gave lessons and probably was too insecure to stray from the verbatim repetition of his text). The other side was that he was an accomplished, cultivated gentleman who was eager to self-improve and who cared for the education of slaves in Sunday school. He had even toured Europe to widen his mental horizon before he proposed to his second wife. The visit of his home was very enlightening to me and made me understand Jackson a little better (although I still have to read that brick of a book, the biography on him by James I. Robertson you had recommended to me years ago. But it sits on my shelf already!!)

Lol, read it. It's a masterpiece.

 

[War Horse]

I went to stonewall's house in 2016 with my wife and absolutely loved it. I was planning to take a friend the next spring but he was diagnosed with brain cancer and went to be with the Lord before we got to go.

I am so sorry the hear that.

 

[8thFlorida]

% correct

"It's time to restore history" should be our campaign. And we can all speak about how the North, Great Britain and Spain and many African tribes participated in bringing slaves to the US. Its all fair game.