interesting to think of everything he saw

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1937 Magazine Clipping of United Confederate Veteran General, J. A. Glenn, Driving A Truck."

(He wasn't a general.  That "rank" was from attending reunions)

https://www.genealogycenter.info/military/civilwar/viewpage_jamesaglenn.php?realpage=10&display=jamesaglenn-small

i find it interesting to think about everything he saw in his lifetime - im glad he didnt live to see stupid people in this country tear those monuments down - i want them put back 

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A square 10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: December 12 2006 Location: MN , USA Status: Online Points: 16998	Post Options Post Reply Quote A square 10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: interesting to think of everything he saw Posted: February 18 2026 at 7:25pm
	1937 Magazine Clipping of United Confederate Veteran General, J. A. Glenn, Driving A Truck." (He wasn't a general. That "rank" was from attending reunions) https://www.genealogycenter.info/military/civilwar/viewpage_jamesaglenn.php?realpage=10&display=jamesaglenn-small i find it interesting to think about everything he saw in his lifetime - im glad he didnt live to see stupid people in this country tear those monuments down - i want them put back

paddyofurniture Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: December 26 2011 Location: NC Status: Offline Points: 7942	Post Options Post Reply Quote paddyofurniture Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 19 2026 at 8:31am
	When my twin Brother where about two we sat on the lap of a older family member who was a Confederate solder in his youth. My Mother had a photo of the event. I do not recall it.

A square 10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: December 12 2006 Location: MN , USA Status: Online Points: 16998	Post Options Post Reply Quote A square 10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 19 2026 at 4:49pm
	you dont have a copy ? thats sad , i would want to have it in my albumen for posterity , i recall my grandfather telling me one day that the last civil war serviceman had died , that was early 1950s - i do know he was well over 100years old , i was pretty young then but my grandfather and i bonded over the civil war , shared that inerest till he passed away in 68 ,

paddyofurniture Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: December 26 2011 Location: NC Status: Offline Points: 7942	Post Options Post Reply Quote paddyofurniture Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 19 2026 at 5:11pm
	I keep asking who has the photo but to date no one knows where it is.

A square 10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: December 12 2006 Location: MN , USA Status: Online Points: 16998	Post Options Post Reply Quote A square 10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 19 2026 at 5:37pm
	thats sad , it would be something to pass on in the family and i would be proud to have it on my wall , i have an album of my life that i will leave my kids , its sorta short on anything after the kids came along but thats because they have that era of it , what they dont have is what preceded it , theres some things that may not make sense to them but maybe before i die i can add some notes that explain it all , some parts of early life is easy to understand from a photo but some not so easy to fully comprehend - ive not looked at that in a long time , im getting old , might want to put the notes in there soon

Canuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: January 17 2012 Location: Cochrane, AB Status: Offline Points: 4021	Post Options Post Reply Quote Canuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 19 2026 at 5:49pm
	I'm lucky in that I have my maternal family's photo albums from as early as the mid-1800's from France. Each photo has the name of the person or people in that photo written on the back in ink in the most beautiful hand writing I have ever seen.
	Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually

A square 10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: December 12 2006 Location: MN , USA Status: Online Points: 16998	Post Options Post Reply Quote A square 10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 19 2026 at 7:03pm
	you are fortunate in that someone cared a lot , mine are what my mother put together of my life , some i didnt know she had , but even tho her handwriting was beautiful she didnt note every photo - some i can fill in but my writing will be feeble these days , the other album i have is a history of both sides of my family as besyt she could trace them in the 80s back a far as she could get , my folks actually traveled tpo england , scotland , austrailia and germany seeking info to complete the volume , they also visited saipan so my mother could see where my father was when he was deplyed after they got married