Today, I acted as a docent at the Fairfax Historic Courthouse in the suburbs of Washington DC. They were open today as part of the Chocolate Festival so people could come in to see a mock trial (Wolf v Pig) and see some of the historic documents the court has in its archives.

One such book was where they recorded court cases. During the Civil War, Union soldiers were stationed inside the courthouse, and they would use the extra space in the courthouse books to handwriting practice, doodles, poems, and other sentiments.

I'll post some of the interesting bits, but I was showing the book to a woman, and when I said it was in the courthouse during the Civil War, she turned to me and said, nicely enough, "The War of Northern Aggression."

It's not as often that you meet people who call it that anymore, but I neglected to show her the sentiments that one Yankee had written in the book regarding the Confederate General Robert E. Lee (see the picture).

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Roosevelt was physically handicapped, and this memorial is accessible in many ways.