I think the best way I can put it, ” Tom summarized, “was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: ‘Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?’, and his prisoner replied: ‘Because you are here, Yank’.

C.G. Faulkner
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Tom asked his grandfather if he could tell the family what he had been thinking about all those years. His grandfather told him that as a child, an old Confederate soldier had come to visit his family and said, “Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?’ The old soldier explained that his captors had captured many Southern men, but the Union soldiers who fought them were few in number.

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