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Re: Why?
From: Randy Allen
Date: 08 May 1999
Time: 01:22:53
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I'm not sure I understand your question. African Americans remain the victims of discrimination and recism to this day. We have come a long way but a person would be wrong in assuming that slave owners were the only people to abuse these people. I understand that some slave owners were sympathetic and understood the problems of slaves more than the self rightous people who expressed less knowledgeable opinions about the problem than those who lived closer to situation. U.S. Grant owned a slave at one time and married the daughter of a southern planter who owned slaves. Lincoln was very pragmatic about slavery and would have been willing to compromise the issue if he could end the war. The Civil war was not fought to free slaves but resulted from a disagreement over states rights and whether the new states should be free or slave. Many books have been written about the problems in Kansas and fighting was going on West of the Mississippi long before Fort Sumter. Hope this helps.
Re: WRIGHT,JOHN G 38th vol.GAR,NASHUA,IA
From: Dave Wildman
Date: 28 May 1999
Time: 01:31:25
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Sorry to say your ancestor wasn't buried with the regimental flag. There wasn't one. The custom at the time the men were mustered in was for the womens group, in the local community, to purchase a flag or have it donated and present it to each company. There was a flag ceremony about 1912 where the Stars and Stripes was presented at the state capital as the emblem of the 38th Iowa. I don't recall the reference but if I come across it I'll let you know. My gg Grandfather was in Company I, of the 38th. If you have any other information about your ancestor I am interested in any information regarding the 38th regiment.
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