Continued from March 19th. From Dec. 13, 2010, Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After reading about Isham Booth, it is clear that he was not a slave-owning man, the case with the majority of Confederate soldiers.
In 2001, there were 130 "Real Sons," those whose fathers had actually served in the Confederate military. Today there are just 30. Many of these veterans married and fathered children late in life.
H.V. Booth has a knobby cane given to his father by the DAR in 1930 on the 65th anniversary of the end of the war. This year, 2010, marked the 65th anniversary of H.V. Booth's own war, World War II. he was in the Navy and served on a LST in the South pacific and was at the battles of Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
After the war, he worked more than 30 years at a Ford dealership, eventually owning it. Then he had another 20 years as night manager at a senior citizens home.
he has buried 2 wives and 2 sons.
More to Come. --Old B-R'er
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