149 years ago today, Private Alfred B. Hays - later known to his family as "Pappy" - shouldered his Enfield 3-band rifled musket, formed ranks with his fellow soldiers of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry of Helm's Brigade, Breckinridges division of Bragg's Confederate Army of the Tennessee, and charged into the teeth of MG George Thomas' breastworks at Chickamauga. My middle name is Hays, and I was named thusly for Pappy, my great-great-grandfather. As the box in the graphic indicates, I'm lucky to be here at all. Pappy had a hell of a Civil War. He fought in the battles of Fort...
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Sep 20 2012, 07:35 AM
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