tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949335591314305902.post6038601480157402516..comments2023-05-15T06:04:01.862-07:00Comments on Bydan Free means Forever Free: Sullivan Ballou Killed at age 32; his wife was 24 and remained a widow until her death 56 years laterRICHARD K. MUNROhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12285008371586474385noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949335591314305902.post-64325285673250129302009-06-03T22:52:30.753-07:002009-06-03T22:52:30.753-07:00Yes, Svetlana and I hope you heard the music accom...Yes, Svetlana and I hope you heard the music accompaniment to the letter which is read aloud.<br /><br />Sullivan Ballow was what Highlanders call a LEAL AND TRUE MON that is to say a (Highland) Gentleman. He was a loving husband and father and he loved his young wife -only 24 years old!- very dearly. And yet when duty called -he was among the first to enlist he gave up a promising political career to serve as an infantry officer because his hero ABRAHAM LINCOLN asked for 75,000 volunteers. He was one of those 75,000 and those men saved Washington DC and probably the UNION. Harry Jaffa has written that if the North had lost history would have been entirely different. He said if slavery had continued in the USA the USA of 1939 would have been an Axis power and a an ally of Nazi Germany. <br /><br />Just think of that! Could there have been a more horrible possiblity. So all the world owes Sullivan Ballou and the men who fought by his side for the Union and in a larger sense for the cause of Democracy and Freedom round the world.RICHARD K. MUNROhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12285008371586474385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949335591314305902.post-65556592699790968582009-06-03T20:22:47.304-07:002009-06-03T20:22:47.304-07:00Heart-wrenching story! And what language! One thin...Heart-wrenching story! And what language! One thing is to feel the emotions, but to express his sentiment in such eloquent, refined, poetical manner... Why, I wish I lived in the 19th century!Svetlana Mamedovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17381372361172059562noreply@blogger.com