re: #643 HappyWarrior

Our wingnuttest candidate for governor is from your neck of the woods. I feel like should I ever encounter ask him if he knows who Albert Woodson was and how much the 1st Minnesota lost at Gettysburg or if he’s too busy pandering ot the idiots down here in VA still not over the Civil War to care..

I was a big Civil War history buff in high school, and the stand of the 1st Minnesota was courage personified. Their flag hangs in the Capitol Building, which I need to go and see; the flag they captured during Pickett’s Charge, that of the 28th Virginia, we keep locked away across town.