Tales of the Civil War- 82 year old man heard stories from grandfather

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Amzi Gregory shows an old copy of the book ‘The Last Reunion of the Blue and the Gray,’ a gathering attended by his grandfather who served in the Confederate Calvary.

EDMOND, Okla. — It seems almost imaginable today to have had a direct conversation with a Civil War veteran. But an Edmond man did just that.
Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Amzi Gregory, 82, remembers the tales of the Civil War told by his grandfather, Nathan Aaron Waddell, of Texas. Waddell spent four years in the Civil War’s Confederate Calvary.
Gregory was 4 years old when his grandfather died in 1940. Waddell was born in 1844 and joined the Confederate Army at age 17. He died in 1940 in Sayre at age 96.

Waddell fought in several battles in Mississippi. He and Gregory’s father, Fletcher Mason Gregory, Sr., sat with surviving veterans of the Blue and the Gray at The Battle of Gettysburg’s 75th Anniversary in 1938, dedicated by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The commemoration was the veterans’ last reunion.
REST OF ARTICLE:https://www.edmondsun.com/news/tale...cle_ffdbe582-0f80-11e9-8a36-33a0b647384e.html
 
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