It isn’t fiction, viewed as disloyal by Union officers for siding with Virginia in secession Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs appropriated Robert E. Lee’s farm for use as a graveyard to mostly Union soldiers after the Civil war. His intention was to make the house uninhabitable in case the Lee family ever tried to return.
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A 55 and a bit of history. Who could ask for more>
Well done.
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Salting, burning, turning houses into enemy graveyards…No wonder the South hates the North, lol. Great 55!
Us dragons helped in that war by eating confederate soldiers. They were not very tasty though.
Nice 55 with history.
Ours is up
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Erica…The first ‘Memorial’ 55 of the day.
BTW…I LOVE anything historical.
Excellent post my dear, thank You so much.
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Have a Great Week-End….Galen
How spiteful. Makes me want to visit. Good FF55 for this weekend, too.
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love the historical 55. btw i have pics of when my 12 yr old was a toddler in cabinets, too. what is their obsession? lol
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