Suzanne, many thanks for sharing this one--my favorite being the last line  
of the piece snipped below!  
 
In a message dated 3/30/2011 11:28:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-civil-war-20110327,
0,7924185.story






<<Susan Gabbay, 80, a retired librarian, brought an account book from  the 
farm where she grew up near Petersburg. During the Union siege of the city  
in 1864, federal troops exploded a mine to open a gap in the rebel defenses 
but  then rushed into the crater, where many were slaughtered.

"Before the  battle, the Union general came and told my great-grandmother 
to leave because it  was too dangerous," she said. "When I was little, I 
thought that's why  they called it the Civil War — because he was so  polite.">>



Holly Mills
Amherst, VA

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