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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3497762, member: 10461&quot;]And I&#039;m the opposite.&nbsp; I&#039;m a Southerner born and bred, but my ancestors fought for the North, and while I lament the national tragedy, I think the war had the right outcome.&nbsp; Had I been alive in that time, and forced to participate, I would have been torn (just as many people including Robert E. Lee were), but I would likely have ended up in a blue coat, marching under the Stars and Stripes, just like my ancestor, a colonel Norton (later general) did.</p><p><br /></p><p>But who&#039;s to say?&nbsp; It would be difficult to put one&#039;s self in their shoes.&nbsp; For one weekend in 1985 I was in a reenactment as part of a &quot;Confederate&quot; unit, reenacting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Natural_Bridge" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Natural_Bridge" rel="nofollow">Battle of Natural Bridge</a> in Florida, which took place in 1865, and was a very late Confederate victory.&nbsp; Living as they did for one weekend, pretending it was 1865, wearing the scratchy wool clothing, sleeping in damp hay on the hard ground, slapping mosquitoes, drilling with a model 1863 Springfield .58-caliber musket, and cooking over an open fire, it was very educational, if not always comfortable.</p><p><br /></p><p>But let&#039;s get back to coins and not stray into politics.&nbsp; That&#039;s a lovely Indian cent.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure of the numerical grade (forgot if the OP told me that in one of our text message conversations), but it&#039;s sure to have the BN designation, and I must say that these days I prefer copper coins in BN or RB with nice color (like this one) to full RD pieces much of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a beauty, regardless of the technical grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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