We did so enjoy your visit
From: Judi Price - judi.homerprice@gmail.com
Date: Sat, May 30, 2009
H.K. just wanted you to know how great it was to fellowship with you Thursday night. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Always do love to be at the receiving end of one of your wonderful informative speeches. You may be interested to know that Raymond's mother ( the elderly lady) is singing your praises to any and everyone who will listen to her. She says, "I never heard a better sermon in my entire life." So you have another member of the "H.K. Edgerton fan club!!!!"
The letter below is from a friend of mine, actually he and my brother are the same age, but have been forwarding Southern Heritage to him for some time. He is researching his relatives now to get in SCV in Union, SC where he lives. Thought you might be interested in his thoughts.
Also am enclosing the pictures I made the other night. Forgive me for being so interested in your speech and later for running my mouth instead of taking more pictures, but thought these turned out pretty good.
Again, thank you so much for a wonderful speech. Trust you got home o.k. that was some storm we had that night. We had to drive home in it, then unlock the gate to get in, but I don't melt or rust either one and we sure need all the rain we can get.
In a minute am going to send you some pictures of the flowers here this spring
letter from Jimmy Stepp
I find this information curious but informative. My GGGrandfather was from Old Fort, NC, fought with the armies of NC, and was captured along with his brother. They spent time in Elmira NY prison, His brother Silas Stepp’s letters from war and prison are a vital reference in the North Carolina archives. My dad told me some of the skirmish events in Old Fort witnessed by his grandfather, as a child. They were mountain folk, had no slaves, and probably cared not a whit about that issue. They fought and died and others later said they fought for slavery. Somehow I do not believe these good old mountain boys thought that. Seems to me that even from the Whiskey Rebellion era, the mountain men have been resisting the ‘meddlin’ revenuer’ and perceived ‘illegal taxation.’ If you look, Virginia split into West VA and VA, Kentucky was in turmoil, NC was divided and internally rebellious. The South was not the neat clean united South that is depicted. If you draw up the NC losses during the war, you will find they lost more than any other southern state and FAR MORE from disease than from war. North Carolina had 14,522 killed, 5,151 war wound deaths from battle and 20,602 from disease. – the most of any southern state in each category. One should feel sympathy in remembrance, but not rewrite. That is my thought of the moment. Jim
http://thomaslegion.net/confederategeneralskilledmortallywounded.html
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