[ExI] sturgis - washington post

[William Flynn Wallace]

* My family came from West Virginia and Kentucky.  I had (I think) 8 direct
ancestors in the war, and all were yanks except one*

*Aha! So your ancestors were traitors too!  Although most Southerners now
don't regard Kentucky and Virginia as 'South', they were and are.  bill w*

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:42 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2020 3:26 PM
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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] sturgis - washington post
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> Ja, well, we yanks won the war, so we get to make the rules.
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> *A Florida Yankee!  Turncoat!  Traitor!    Bill**w*
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> *Florida came later, me lad.  My family came from West Virginia and
> Kentucky.  I had (I think) 8 direct ancestors in the war, and all were
> yanks except one, and we think the one guy was drafted.  *
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> *Regarding being conscripted into the confederacy: that brings up some
> interesting questions in itself.*
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> *Now it might be we could be called carpet baggers, but the family didn’t
> go to Florida until the early 1960s.*
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