Monday, March 13, 2006
Finality
Every year, we go to Allegheny Cemetery after the parade, and visit the gravesite of Captain Samuel Taggart. Capt. Taggart was the real, flesh and blood commander of the 116th's Company I, and he was killed late in the war at Reams Station, Virginia.People come to this site for many reasons. I go to remind myself that what we're doing is in essence, acting. 145 years ago, men (and women) marched off into a real, shooting war, and hundreds of thousands of Americans on both sides paid with their lives.
Captain Taggart was just 23 years old when he was killed.
