National Civil War Museum
Spent the morning and afternoon at this museum. It was founded about nine years ago. The have a nice presentation that is balanced. Saw the sword of Hunter McGuire, kin our cousins the Beach family of Beattyville. Saw Lee's bible from the Mexican American War and carried until the evacuation of Petersburg where it was found by a yank among Lee's personal items. The bible was thick. I mused it contained the Apocrpha as Lee was Episcopalian. One leaves with a sensing of the epic struggle and how events, culture, history, and politics spiralled the states toward the revolution that was this war. Lee had used those very words as he bemoaned the situation in a personal letter in about 1860 or early 61. Seems states and folk recognize that we are seeing the effects of a very strong central government more and more and understand the concern of Jeffersonian Democrats.
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