GDG- Foote

[jack]

Dad remembered civil war veterans marching (riding?) in veterans parades. 
This would be in the twenties/thirties. I have a National Geographic from 
the centennial showing some vetrerans in sorts coats atop LRT, at the 60th 
anniversary. Foote was born in 1916, so he would have had access to 
veterans. Woodrow Wilson was raised in a house that had slaves and lived 
through the war.

I have a chilling DVD short of DW Griffith talking about the post war 
period. He would hide under the kitchen table and listen too his father and 
friends talk about what they had done out on one of their Klan rides.

There were many folks around in  Foote's childhood that he could have been 
exposed to.

Faulkner has a great line in a book about every Southern Boy growing up 
spending time in a a place where it is always 4:00 on July 3, 1863, and they 
turn the tide at the angle.

IMHO, Foote was like many, raised in the Lost Cause mythos.

There were people who just lived a long time.

And longer memories.

Regards,



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "keith mackenzie" <bluzdad at yahoo.com>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: GDG- Foote


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> john: Without appearing to dimwitted, if thats possible, wouldn't the 
> death rate from the war itself skew the averages for that generation?
>  K.
>
> John Baniszewski <jdbano2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> SNIP
>
> Given the life expectancy data, most CSA vets would have died prior to mr. 
> Foote's birth assuming
> an enlistment age of 17 years and a life expectancy of 40.1.
>
> UNSNIP
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> You need to be careful about numbers like that. Factored into that life 
> expectancy figure are all of those who died in their infancy. The 
> mortality rate was so high back then among the really young, compared to 
> today, it can skew an "average" number.
>
> John Baniszewski
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>
>
> John Baniszewski
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