tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162685021216818539.post5812859320205453857..comments2023-07-19T21:53:55.104-05:00Comments on Hill Country HOGS Blog: Comments on "Shhhhhhhhhh!, Let's not talk about this. . ."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162685021216818539.post-59980224976069055952010-07-11T22:26:15.999-05:002010-07-11T22:26:15.999-05:00Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unf...Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution<br />(or the abridged A short history of reconstruction) helped me place the "shhh..." attitude in context. There was an ongoing price to pay for dissenters (or those associated with Unionism or Republican Reconstruction governments) in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction era. I think 1865-1965 is the real "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162685021216818539.post-30150535268362620442010-06-29T15:25:17.331-05:002010-06-29T15:25:17.331-05:00Thank you, Mona, for your kind words. Indeed the C...Thank you, Mona, for your kind words. Indeed the Civil War involved families from Hill Country fighting each other --- the tombstones and military markers in the graveyards of our region show numerous Southern Unionists buried alongside their Southern Confederate kin. It is a chapter of our heritage that used "revisionism" in our history --- and, as you have discovered in the Terry Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251750196282728118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162685021216818539.post-32347717916396679062010-06-29T12:52:33.659-05:002010-06-29T12:52:33.659-05:00Terry,
I loved your "Shhhhhhhh!" post a...Terry,<br /><br />I loved your "Shhhhhhhh!" post and don't know how I missed it the first time around. Like you, my education indicated nothing but an undivided South, totally united in their opposition to the "Northern aggression." Genealogical research has really opened my eyes, and I've found brothers fighting against brothers and cousins against cousins in Mona Robinson Millshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07942686174431804604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162685021216818539.post-22522305766485017412010-06-15T07:23:11.073-05:002010-06-15T07:23:11.073-05:00Thanks Dorene. I most appreciate your comments.
...Thanks Dorene. I most appreciate your comments.<br /><br />Terry Thornton<br />Fulton, MississippiTerry Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251750196282728118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162685021216818539.post-90208560608019777812010-06-14T20:26:19.416-05:002010-06-14T20:26:19.416-05:00Terry,
Due to time constraints, I have not yet fu...Terry,<br /><br />Due to time constraints, I have not yet fully "digested" all the facts in your post or in the comments yet...but it looks to me like you are sharing history in a very honest way...and also opening up dialogue....and in the process making us all the wiser! Thanks!<br /><br />And I will read your post thoroughly.....!Dorene from Ohiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05371522353987796175noreply@blogger.com