Yes, and a very few venerable gentlemen tried to reproduce the rebel yell,
seemingly a bloodcurdling sound that unsettled the Northern troops.
There was a TV item about it.
A flag ,from the Civil war was flown,with the few stars and cross of The Southern states.
Robert E Lee was undecided which side to command , he chose The South.
Arlington his home was requisitioned after the war as a cemetery and graves were placed right up to the house so no one would ever really want to live there again.
Lee had slaves.
His horse Traveller was with him throughout the war, he rode it to the farmhouse where war was declared and then to surrender .
The Southern troops lined up to pat Traveller, a grey.
We spoke to a representative of The American War Graves Commission at an
American cemetery in Belgium, along theGent- Kortrijk Road.
He offered my husband a job, but it was nothing like the pay we needed to live there with three children etc. and me not working.
At that time if both of a couple were foreign only one was allowed to work.
There was a very good series on a TV ,quite a few years ago,very informative.
My son has visited Gettysburg battlefield, much stuff still lying about in the area and the peach orchard.Small balls, cases etc.
All very sad.
If a man served at 18, many were much -younger, drummer boys etc, those who said they were older etc it was 1861-65 ,then if any lived to100 , 1961, born as early as 1851 so 14 or so when the war ended,it is possible a few lived to be televised .
A fascinating subject.
Viktoria.
The South seemed more romantic-Gone With The Wind - and all that but it was so for only its white population !