Re: Literacy North and South
Mike, I lived in Marietta, at the foot of Kennesaw mountain, and twenty miles north of Atlanta. I was born about a hundred yards south of the Marietta National Cemetery, where the victims of Kennesaw and the Atlanta campaign are resting, including one of Jim Martin's relatives. The Confederate Cemetery is about three miles south of town. None of 'em ever scared me though. Reckon they was tired, from marching and fighting. My relatives were in the ANV. My GGF is buried in Richmond. His two brothers made it home and are buried in Kennesaw, and on Wade Green Road, in a little Church graveyard. We had pleasant ties, when not picking cotton! Then the county population grew about ten times over the years. I still live almost in sight of Kennesaw Mountain. I can drive about a half mile to a ridge and see it about seven miles away. We Southerners are steeped in a love of the land, whether city folk or not. Stan