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    1. Re: [Civil-War-Irish] Summation: U.S. Grant and Matthew Brady.
    2. What would you like to know about Grant? As National Registrar for Presidential Families of America, I have quite a collection of vitae on our Presidents. Possibly I could illimuminate a tiny bit. My ancestral cousin, Archibald Willard, painted the great painting, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Later and currently known as "Spirit of 76". The flutist in the painting is another cousin, Hugh Mosher of Wellington , Ohio. During the Philadelphia Exposition in the late l800s (no time to look up the exact date, someone poked a hole in the canvas. Willard took it behind "stage", and was repairing it under a light, when he heard a slight cough and "Good job, Son", He turned to find U.S.Grant standing before him. Mosher, Willard's father and another man returned from the Civil War and were dancing in the streets and cavorting, when Willard decided to put them in costume and paint Yankee Doodle Dandy His father is the gentleman in the middle playing the drum. Joan Keller

    08/07/2001 04:03:21