Mystic Chords of Memory - Motier, Donald
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My father died in 1990 and in the process of going through his belongings I discovered an old wooden weather-beaten trunk in the attic that aroused my curiosity. Considering the layers of dust covering the lid, it appeared that it had not been opened in many years. The lid seemed to creak and strain with the weight of the ages as I lifted the heavy oak. A neatly-folded Union Civil War uniform, complete with cap, stared up at me from the lost past. Although obviously worn, great care had been taken in its preservation. I gingerly lifted up the jacket and immediately noticed the three sergeant…mehr

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My father died in 1990 and in the process of going through his belongings I discovered an old wooden weather-beaten trunk in the attic that aroused my curiosity. Considering the layers of dust covering the lid, it appeared that it had not been opened in many years. The lid seemed to creak and strain with the weight of the ages as I lifted the heavy oak. A neatly-folded Union Civil War uniform, complete with cap, stared up at me from the lost past. Although obviously worn, great care had been taken in its preservation. I gingerly lifted up the jacket and immediately noticed the three sergeant stripes on the upper arm. I knew then who had worn it. My great-grandfather, Sergeant Charles Powers, had served two tours of duty during the Civil War and in 1861-62 had been stationed in Washington with the thousands of other troops guarding the city from what many thought was an imminent invasion from the South. During that period of 1861-62 he was at various times assigned to guarding the White House, Capitol and Arsenal. Sgt. Powers lived till 1918 and my father, born in 1908, used to travel with his parents from Harrisburg to Lancaster to visit his grandfather where he would sit on the old gentleman's knee and be regaled with stories of Civil War Washington and the Lincolns. My father than passed these stories down to me.
Autorenporträt
Donald Motier is the author of twenty books, including ¿ve collections of poetry, nine novels, two biographies and two travel books. In 2012 and 2014 he published two historical novels, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Lost Journal of William Wallace Lincoln and Saving Lincoln: Mystic Chords of Memory Part 2. While doing research for those two books he discovered that Willie Lincoln, who was most like his father in temperament, intelligence and empathy and who tragically died in the White House on February 20, 1862 at age eleven of small pox and typhoid, is the author's 3rd cousin 2x removed. His biography of Willie He Had Rare Lights was published in 2019 and was praised by the best living scholar on Abraham Lincoln and his family Dr. Wayne C. Temple as "A great book by the leading authority on the life of Willie Lincoln."