This was around the time the republicans called themselves “progressive” because of the first civil rights movement.
Counting backward, it looks like Lieutenant Grigsby was born in late 1811, which would have made him a mature man of 49 at the war’s outbreak.
I wonder what his service was like, considering most of the troopers would have been young enough to be his sons.
one of the first freepers.
Actually, the ‘warning’ is far more true today, than it was in the early 1800’s - the antebellum Democrats could be described as the party of limited federal government, and strict constitutional construction...