Jewells of Thought

What historical event fascinates you the most?

There are too many for me to only mention or simply pick just one event. Although right now I am currently reading a book about the Civil War. More specifically about President Abraham Lincoln and the illustrious Frederick Douglass. I’m more than halfway through the book as of this morning. Several mental notes were made but I’m not certain if they are still solidified in my brain after the long day of traveling back and forth.

Usually the American Revolutionary War would be the broader topic of interest for me or World War II because of family connections. However, like I said so many events in American History astound me as well as Biblical History. I have also been to the Presidential Museum for Lincoln not just once but twice. Seeing the family as you walk into the main hall of the museum is a mock up of the entire Lincoln family as they were height wise coloring wise and dressed up in clothes from a photo from long, long ago.

Another moving scene is the bedroom where their son is shown on his deathbed. The room where the death and casualty statistics were everywhere was a heart-breaking room to be in seeing the numbers and names of the dead, maimed and whatever you can imagine from that horrific war.

In the dozen chapters I have read these two men have met twice. It is 1864 and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation has been written and read. So has the Gettysburg Address only 272 words, but it was meant to be a brief speech from the President since he was an afterthought to this ceremony. Another man had the keynote speech of the day. I feel like as soon as I read this I will need to read it quickly once again so I can remember what I just read better.

I know what’s coming he has just been reelected. His proclamation worked and his Black Troops were helping the cause of the Union Forces imagine that. Men wanting to fight for their ability to have the same rights of course that’s what they wanted Douglass and Lincoln finally realized they wanted the same thing for these men.

There’s so much more to say and I am just scratching the surface. This book totally makes me want to make a second Patriots article I wrote several years ago during our Covid Era when a few comments from ‘The View’ inspired me to write about the Founding Fathers contradicting their foul views and lying tongues about our American History. They simply didn’t do their research and the sad part is… they simply didn’t care like I do and so many others. American Exceptionalism is real because we had a brilliantly amazing assembly of persons that made up the Continental Congress, the Army and those who created the Declaration and our Constitution.