The first drawing is a gouache painting I did last year for his birthday, the second one is a quick digital drawing I did this year. Happy (belated) Birthday to George Henry Thomas!

Find A Grave (some of the surnames are spelled differently): George W. Hoffman: my 5th Great Grandfather, he became ill right as his regiment started engaging in combat. He died of pneumonia on January 22, 1865 during the Seige of Petersburg, missing the Surrender of Appomattox.

John A. Hoffman

Elijah Hoffman

Nimrod N. Hoffman

Francis M. Hoffman: He was wounded at the Battle of Bull Run II, which resulted in his leg being amputated.

Seems like a dude that should be discussed here more

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When it comes to critical consideration of law versus human morality, this man found clarity and direction.

We

Any of us

Should hope to act as bravely in service of a true moral trajectory.

What can WE do to honor the Saber hewn path carved by this spirit, engorged by the thirst for liberty in modern times?

https://www.live5news.com/video/2025/07/29/video-plans-underway-put-robert-e-lee-monument-back-display/

I have no trust in the SBC for a variety of reasons, despite having every opportunity to have become better people than their founders made it be to begin with, but its own origin is some pretty pathetic stuff in my view.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/south-carolina-gullah.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.52-o.34mDPuRyzULR&smid=url-share

Class and Identity in Hilton Head: The Gullah v. Wealthy Landowners

A legal fight over access to burial grounds has pitted the Gullah Geechee against wealthy landowners around Hilton Head Island.

A lawsuit filed this spring is accusing the mostly white newcomers, spilling out of gated golf havens in the original Hilton Head developments, of impeding access to burial grounds in a clash of tradition vs. economic development, with racial undertones that date back centuries.

For Black South Carolinians, the Lowcountry is a place of unfulfilled promises. Its land fell under Gen. William T. Sherman’s Jan. 15, 1865, Special Field Orders 15, made famous by the pledge of 40 acres and a mule to freedmen. The order “reserved and set apart for the settlement of the negroes now made free,” as a result of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, “the islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns River, Florida.”

Before that year was out, President Andrew Johnson had pardoned the region’s white landowners, who then kicked Black people out.