tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post5325813816424809859..comments2024-01-11T04:23:41.813-06:00Comments on ColRebSez: House snoop yields a small treasure trove of historyCol. Reb Sezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962693457509336759noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post-14470066647278338052014-01-16T08:10:12.572-06:002014-01-16T08:10:12.572-06:00Colonel~
My most memorable experience at attic sn...Colonel~<br /><br />My most memorable experience at attic snooping was that of going through the steamer trunk of my great-great-grandfather who came to America from Ireland aboard the steamship, <b>The Conqueror</b>.<br /><br />Anyway,there was a Mississippian that achieved national recognition in the executive administration of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson appointed Thomas Watt Gregory to Attorney General in 1915. Gregory served through the WWI years until 1919 and became Wilson's advisor at the 1919 Paris Peace Conferenc after not being reappointed to the AG post.<br /><br />Gregory was born in Crawfordsville(Crawford), Mississippi in 1861, and soon after his birth, his father, a Captain in the Confederate Army(probably the Prairie Guards) was killed in battle and is buried at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus. <br /><br />There is dark side to his tenure at AG in the treatment of antiwar pacifists during WWI.<br /><br /><a href="//lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012037.pdf" rel="nofollow">Thomas Watt Gregory</a>Pugnaciousnoreply@blogger.com