Ted Cruz really hates gerrymandering...now.
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which they began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12th, 1861 at 4:30 a.m.....
They started it--- and them later calling it "the war of northern aggression"
is misinformation propaganda,
and essentially their whining about the fact that We FINISHED IT!
After his retirement, my father became an amateur genealogist, continuing the efforts
that his mother had made in documenting our family line. However, my father did extensive research
into his wife's (and my mother's) family history---
I am very proud of the fact that two of her (and my) ancestors (who perhaps ironically bore the family name 'Richmond')
were enlisted as Union soldiers from Michigan, and served under General Sherman in the latter years of the war,
and thus very likely seemed to have participated in Sherman's 'march through Georgia'!
They survived the war, as my father found later records about them after the war---
but oddly enough, he could find no record of 'discharge from the army' papers for them----
---which seems to indicate that when the war was over,
they didn't wait around for the 'formalities',
but "self-discharged" and went home! LOL
Father also discovered another relative on his mother's side,
who had served in the 12th Regiment of the Virginia Confederate cavalry,
who was killed about the time of the 'Battle of the Wilderness' in Virginia in 1864.
I have no pride for that, but parts of my family line came here through Virginia,
as well as points further north, so it is only to be expected that there would be such
somewhere in the family tree....
The 'patriarch' of my actual family name, as far back as my grandmother
was able to research it in the 1970's before the internet,
actually DID serve with the American army in the Revolutionary war!
