Well, I don’t feel so old when I think of my great-grandfather having been in the Civil War. This fellow is my mother’s paternal grandfather, George Shimp. I’m thinking her maternal grandfather may have been too young to go. My other two great-grandfathers served and I remember sleeping at my paternal grandma’s under a picture of her father in uniform. Once she asked, “Wasn’t he handsome?” She probably thought I would join the Daughters of the Union, but I think that organization faded away.

Now, in another bedroom was the picture of Roy – you remember Roy? No? Well, here’s HERE.