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name: donald

golo url: oldrebel.golo.com

born: 1955

gender: male

city: sanford, nc

golo member since: September 1, 2007

about oldrebel

A week before the battle of Bull Run Sullivan Ballou, a Major in the 2nd
Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield.

July 14,1861
Camp Clark, Washington DC

Dear Sarah:

The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days - perhaps tomorrow. And lest I should not be able to write you again I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I am no more.

I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the government and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing - perfectly willing - to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this government, and to pay that debt.

Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but omnipotence can break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly with all those chains to the battlefield. The memory of all the blissful moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me, and I feel most deeply grateful to God and you, that I have enjoyed them for so long. And how hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes and future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and see our boys grown up to honorable manhood around us.

If I do not return, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I loved you, nor that when my last breath escapes me on the battle field, it will whisper your name...

Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless, how foolish I have sometimes been!...

But, 0 Sarah, if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they love, I shall always be with you, in the brightest day and in the darkest night... always, always. And when the soft breeze fans your cheek, it shall be my breath, or the cool air your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet again...

<<<<<                *******          >>>>>>                             

Sullivan Ballou was killed a week later at the 1st Battle of Bull Run.

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favorite music: amethystium, gillian welch, alana davis, cranberries

favorite movies: (recently watched and would recommend) hero, the sand pebbles, 300, cloverfield,children of men, gladiator, gettysburg, under fire,bourne triology, donnie darko, lotr,underworld, wotw, legend, interview with a vampire

favorite hobbies: discovering nc backroads and destinations

favorite tv shows: elizabeth's weather forecasts, house,friends,law & order svu,weather channel, unc-tv

favorite restaurants: fairview dairy bar, sanford; allen and son's bar-be-que, bynum; los tres magueyes in cary; pik n pig, carthage; la dolce vita, sanford

favorite web sites: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nc/nwis/current/?type=flow http://www.blueletterbible.org/index.html http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.html http://www.wunc.org/front-page http://theclassicalstation.org/ http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/nws/

favorite vacation spots: blue ridge parkway and skyline drive, civil war battlefields, american revolution battlefields and sites, obx





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"D" said he really enjoyed being in your company yesterday...said you kept him laughing and he also enjoyed the show~~~~oh yeah, what's this about me being JOHNNY? LOL :)

Thanks it was a great day. But I am wiped out. I think it is going to be an early night.

OR, i have good and helpful ("tried and true") info about gout... you can email me at surogy@msn.com if conversation about flareup prevention can be helpful..

Your mood seems so much better than it did when golo started. It makes me so happy to hear you getting out and enjoying life. Well Done, OR, well done

TY BDR...I felt a lot better today than I had all week. And the weather made it easier to get out and do something! re: On the tea room, there used to be one at the corner of Main and Lee Avenue in Jonesboro. I think it's the Old Jackson home...there's a historical marker in front of it, but I really don't know if it's still in business.

OldRebel ~ Nice images from the Ford show! Your foot pain must have abated. :) Yesterday, while on lunch from the ball and chain, a Rolls-Royce parks practically beside me! (Well, a few spaces to my left...) She was a beauty! BTW, rumor has it that there is a tea room in Sanford. Can you confirm or deny?

Mors is hating you right now. It's date night, and we are going to rent this movie and watch it. Hhahahahahha! Thanks, hon!

{{{{{{{{{{{{{OR}}}}}}}}}} Happy weekend!!!! Next time you think you might come down this way (Raleigh), let me know! Don and I would love to meet you at Oakwood! :-)

Have a great weekend and enjoy the antique car show! {{hugs}}

Beth

re: "You have definite anger management issues."

"Nope, just a low tolerance for morons."

"We have that in common. (Poof)"

Nice come back you unoriginal poot head. (Poof you)

LOL, OldRebel, my mom was trying to talk me into waiting until this Spring when I talked to her tonight. She freaks out about roads in the winter--and then add traveling through the mountains. ;)

My husband seems to be pretty deadset on moving, I'm the one that has been waffling today. Do I really want to pull my 6 year old out of school? Do I want to pull my daughter out of speech? Do I REALLY want to leave here? I've lived here for almost nine years now, I'm not a big one of change.

Thing is, I've not been able to get my Grandma Susie's face out of my mind when she said, "You can always move back" last August when we were up there. NO, we couldn't move back then but now some things have changed. I have the opportunity and if I don't take it now it may never happen. I don't know...it's a much harder choice for me than I think my husband realizes.

I'm excited but sad at the same time. Does that make sense? LOL

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