Memorial Day: Remembering three men from three wars

The Cotton Boll Conspiracy

It’s difficult to walk through any older Southern cemetery and not find gravestones identifyingindividuals who gave their lives for their country.

Even if one doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of Confederate dead that dot cemeteries from Virginia to Florida, the Carolinas to Texas, there are many, many thousands who died in the line of duty, whether it was during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars of the 1830s, the Spanish-American W...