No - This is not a young
Robert E. Lee
or
Stonewall Jackson
or
Jefferson Davis
but
It is one of your 1967 Butler Classmates
Like a lot of us, he wasn't known really well by many
(but then - did we really know each other well back then?)
(OK, maybe Jim C and Jack R did! (1954 -2007))
Here's five clues -
1) He was born only a stones throw
from Sherman's Path of Destruction thru Georgia
on his March to the Sea
(you can imagine why he would be asked to be in
Commemorative Civil War Re-enactments - )
2) He lettered in sports in college
RIFLE TEAM AT RICE UNIVERSITY
3) He has a married daughter and a son who is excelling in college but not lettering in sports
4) There are more of his pictures on this website than any other classmate,
5) he was a good dancer and says that he
(and his camera)
rarely missed any of the dances at school or other school functions.
If you are participating in the
to raise money for the
Butler Class of '67 Scholarship Fund, then
...
Search your "Rebel" yearbook
(He is in there)
(without the whiskers)
(those above are real - by the way).
If you find him, then on
June 15, 2007
(on or after 7PM CST ) -
fill in your answers for all of the Mystery Classmates
and click the "Submit" button as shown
For each contest
the classmate (not on the Reunion Committee)
to email the most correct answers --
Wins 3 nites, 5-star accommodations at
Wyndham/Fairfield - Nashville
(Across the street from the Opryland Hotel)
GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT !!
(For a good cause!!)
(To see the sacrifices made on both sides of the war -- -
in the name of liberty, freedom, preserving a way of life, and
preserving a nation - -
click the American Flag above.)
Mystery Classmate Donations Prior to Reunion $3,200
Silent Auction (approx.) 2,000
DVD Sales of 600 pictures (45 minute show)(est. ) 800
Total Donated to the
"Butler Class of '67 Memorial Scholarship Fund"
$6,000
As the stage was set for the saddest event in American history, the "numbers" did not look good for the newly created Confederacy.
Eleven states had left the Union; twenty-two remained. The population of the Confederate states was about nine million, almost one-third of whom were slaves. The Union states could count twenty-two million individuals and had a steady stream of immigrants.
The South had only two main east-west railroad lines and limited ability to manufacture locomotives or rolling stock. Most of the known deposits of coal, iron ore and copper were in the North, together with about 92% of the country's industrial capacity.
The Navy remained loyal to the Union and most of the merchant shipping was Northern-owned. Those in the South must have known that victory for "Dixie" would surely be achieved against very long odds. (www.civilwarhome.com)
