Tuesday, June 21, 2016

What The Confederate Stranger and A Small Town in Maine Can Teach Us About Human Decency

Via Billy


I've posted on the story before, but this is a different take and nicely done.

 In 1862, a man named Lt. Charles H. Colley of Gray, ME was killed during the Battle of Cedar Mountain. When his grieving family opened up the casket that was supposed to contain their son, they were stunned to discover that a fully uniformed Confederate soldier had been shipped to them instead. Having no way to identify the soldier, and also lacking the means to ship him back to Virginia, Lt. Colley's family decided to bury him in Gray Village Cemetery alongside the Union soldiers who had been killed in the war. They figured that this unknown Confederate's family would appreciate the gesture, even though they'd never find out about it. The Ladies of Gray, a group of mothers whose sons were either missing, injured, or killed in the war, paid to put up a headstone for this unknown Confederate.

More @ Townhall

6 comments:

  1. 20 minutes away from me. Very interesting

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    1. Check it out next time you're there and see if there is any more to the story. Thanks.

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  2. Heart warming story. Really nice people.

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    1. Yes, encouraging. Of course, if the commies get wind of this, they'll want the Confederate flags removed.

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  3. Definitely would like to check it out. I quickly looked online and found some small stories. Just looking up csa soldier buried in gray Maine. Gray is in southern Maine close to most of the population of Maine

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