My New Book of Old Poetry

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Ditto on the congrats! I will be attending a lecture by Dr. Bradley Gottfried, a Civil War author and recently retired college president, on October 21. He will be speaking on Point Lookout, which is of particular interest to me since I had a great-uncle who was imprisoned there. A member of the Confederate Navy, he survived the prison; however, he was assigned to grave digging details and injured his ankle with a pickax. The tool was so filthy from the conditions in that camp that his wound never healed. He still had a running sore the day he died.

I also can claim a divided Maryland family during the war. This man's brother fought for the Union and survived. They both attended family gatherings, but never spoke a word to each other for the rest of their lives.

I will certainly try to remember to mention this book and the background on Fr. Tabb after the lecture. We'll see if Dr. Gottfried is aware of this.