18 comments

  1. Chris Giddiens

    Taylor Giddiens

  2. Charlie Powell

    Typical Reconstruction by entitled Yankees

    1. Jeff Webb

      Amen, brother!

  3. Jimmy May

    Susan Taul

  4. William Proctor

    A long read, interesting and informative of the times of the 1860s. Of interest also is the style of prose in the report which was published in 1908.

  5. Brandon Ivey

    I urge all supporters of historical monuments in Alabama to contact the Governor and other politicians to pass a stronger bill that increases fines and penalties for destruction or removal of all monuments 40 years or older. http://216.226.177.218/forms/contact.aspx

  6. Tommie O'Beirne

    I love history!

  7. Jeff Webb

    Episodes like this perpetrated by low-life union soldiers during Reconstruction, is the reason the strong dislike felt toward today’s yankee carpetbaggers. I wish they’d stay up north where they belong.

  8. Phil Cronan

    My wife’s father was from Alabama. She still has family there. We had bought the Alabama Footprints series.

  9. Jo Kail

    Why was Tood sitting in Jeffries’ lap?

    1. Richard Hancock

      I’m wondering about that as well.

    2. Alabama Pioneers

      I did too when I transcribed it so I double-checked the wording. I believe that may be a way they phrased sitting nearby in 1908 but I’m not sure. It could be a typo in the book, but I honestly don’t know the answer.

  10. Janet Money

    Donna Jackson

    1. Donna Jackson

      Interesting

  11. Samuel T Richardson, Sr

    For all intents and purposes, the “Reconstruction Era” ended after the political Compromise of 1877. There is no justification given for calling this a “Reconstruction days” incident. How is that characterization justified?

    1. Daryl E. Ratterree

      Read intently, the incident happen in the mornining of August 31, 1865. The despicable Yankee Reconstruction was in full swing. Technically it still exsist today. Read the book “Punished In Poverty” by the Kennedy Twins as proof.
      Believe me, it will open your eyes as to what “Our Glorious Federal Government has done to the Southern People” and it was intentional.

  12. Janis Gilbreath Martin

    Thanks for sharing.

  13. Melinda Taylor Woller

    Odette Yeager, this is a great story about Greensboro!

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