JR

long as we're doing JR i'll throw in my two bits. the first is the rocking chair in which JR recuperated for several years following his early morning encounter with a reb miniball near the Dunkard Church just southeast of Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1862 whilst fighting in what can only be considered america's most macho war. JR was a young raw recruit. Antietam was his first battle. He never fired his weapon before he took one for Mr. Lincoln.

the second photo depicts the leather knapsack carried by JR's big brother George who had fought in both Battles of Bull Run before taking a reb miniball to the noggin and dying instantly at the hitherto mentioned Battle of Antietam. one brother dead, one brother severely wounded. was it worth it? and why? slavery? good christ, by 1860 even those stinking russians who would later become commie bastards had freed the serfs. what on god's green earth was the good old USofA waiting for? seven hundred thousand dead? and way over a million wounded?