Who Said That/Wrote That? ANSWERS

1. Congressman Robert Hatton (c) gave an impassioned speech at the Capitol during the 36th Congress. As Confederate Brigadier General Hatton just a few months later, he was killed in battle in Virginia.

2. Private William H. Bradbury (b) penned many poems; this one was written several years after the war's close.

3. Private Bradbury incorporated a verse from William Shakespeare's (c) Macbeth in an important court proceeding on charges for murder against a Confederate who would be executed for his crimes.

4. Former slave, Freedman, and abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass (b) addressed a New York audience with these remarks from a stirring speech during the war years. While Douglass is not mentioned nor quoted in While Father Is Away, Bradbury, too, wrote about dimensions of slavery, its demise, and a country that would be reconstructed without the heinous institution.

5. Written for the Manchester Guardian, William H. Bradbury's (c) article, "The Federals in the Southwest" was written from Nashville, Tennessee.

6. General Julius White led the command of an awesome Union troop and supply movement over the Cumberland Mountains as chronicled by Private William H. Bradbury (b) in his published letter to the readers of the Chicago Tribune.