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Our Lee and Rogers Civil War Heroines

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digital file from b&w film copy neg. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a09983 Our Lee and Rogers Civil War Heroines Many cultures have stories that honor and idolize both their known and unknown heroes/heroines. This story is about three women on my maternal side who kept my mother’s families alive during General Sherman’s intense military campaign in the USA state of Georgia, during the American Civil War.  These women were my known second great-grandmother and her sister-in-law and an identity-unknown heroine who was part of their lives. Caveat:   If you are sensitive to the subject of slavery and the culture of that time and feel the need to judge the current generation or not tell it the way it was, you may want to skip this article.  I am using a name in this article that has come down through two of my related families and am telling the story as it was told to me. Context is everything and I believe it is a crime to rewrite history. Allied Families Sometime after...