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
3) He has a married daughter and a son who is excelling in college but not lettering in sports
4) at least two other 1967 pictures of him are on this website besides just his "senior" picture from the "Rebel"
5) he was a good dancer and says that he 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
April 23 and/or May 23
(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
Battle of Gettysburg
Date: July 1-3, 1863
Location: Pennsylvania
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: George G. Meade
Confederate Forces Engaged: 75,000
Union Forces Engaged: 82,289
Casualties: 51,112 (23,049 Union and 28,063 Confederate)
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Battle of Chickamauga
Date: September 19-20, 1863
Location: Georgia
Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg
Union Commander: William Rosecrans
Confederate Forces Engaged: 66,326
Union Forces Engaged: 58,222
Casualties: 34,624 (16,170 Union and 18,454 Confederate)
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Battle of Chancellorsville
Date: May 1-4, 1863
Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: Joseph Hooker
Confederate Forces Engaged: 60,892
Union Forces Engaged: 133,868
Casualties: 30,099 (17,278 Union and 12,821 Confederate)
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Battle of Spotsylvania
Date: May 8-19, 1864
Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 50,000
Union Forces Engaged: 83,000
Casualties: 27,399 (18,399 Union and 9)000 Confederate)
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Battle of Antietam
Date: September 17, 1862
Location: Maryland
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: George B. McClellan
Confederate Forces Engaged: 51,844
Union Forces Engaged: 75,316
Winner: Inconclusive (Strategic Union Victory)
Casualties: 26,134 (12,410 Union and 13,724 Confederate)
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Battle of The Wilderness
Date: May 5-7, 1864
Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 61,025
Union Forces Engaged: 101,895
Casualties: 25,416 (17,666 Union and 7,750 Confederate)
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Battle of Second Manassas
Date: August 29-30, 1862
Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: John Pope
Confederate Forces Engaged: 48,527
Union Forces Engaged: 75,696
Casualties: 25,251 (16,054 Union and 9,197 Confederate)
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Battle of Stone's River
Date: December 31, 1862
Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg
Union Commander: William S. Rosecrans
Confederate Forces Engaged: 37,739
Union Forces Engaged: 41,400
Casualties: 24,645 (12,906 Union and 11,739 Confederate)
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Battle of Shiloh
Date: April 6-7, 1862
Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: Albert Sidney Johnston/ P. G. T. Beauregard
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 40,335
Union Forces Engaged: 62,682
Casualties: 23,741 (13,047 Union and 10,694 Confederate)
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Battle of Fort Donelson
Date: February 13-16, 1862
Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: John B. Floyd/Simon B. Buckner
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 21,000
Union Forces Engaged: 27,000
Casualties: 19,455 (2,832 Union and 16,623 Confederate)
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By the end of the Civil War, 600,000 Americans had given
their lives in the pursuit of ideals, liberty and freedom..
