Civil War Study Group

My good friend Richard Maxwell drove us over to Vicksburg, Mississippi the other night. Very interesting meeting and good grub. (Vicksburg Country Club).

Marc Thompson, in dress as Nathan Bedford Forrest, gave an interesting talk on the Civil War. I heard about the Wide-Awakes. They were a youth group in the North. The group had 500,000 members in 1860, Their uniform included a six foot whale oil torch. Give them a google.