For a change of reading pace I ordered from my Connecticut bookdealer "The Moonshine Mule." It is about a present day Englishman who decides to walk from Texas to Manhattan with a mule. No, not a donkey. A mule as in Grand Canyon mule. Why? Because a relative of his did the same thing during the Civil War. YOU CAN"T MAKE UP STUFF LIKE THIS.
Turns out EVEN YOU know the guy, His name was Lieutenant Colonel Arthur James Lyon Fremantle of the British Coldstream Guards. Remember in the movie Gettysburg there was an Englishman observing Longstreet and Pickett and Bobby Lee during the battle? Well, this is the same guy. Small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
Robert Haversack Bacon 20th Massachusetts 1861-1865
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