Yesterday my nonfiction book club met to discuss A People’s History of the Civil War by David Williams.

We had a very good discussion of the causes of the Civil War, whether there is ever a just war and the fallacy of reasoning from a particular premise to a universal conclusion.  But the very best part was when Larry G showed us some original documents he had from the Civil War.

The documents included the discharge of Private Charles R Ayres and I took a photo of it.  He was a clerk from Boston who served a 100 day enlistment.  Ayres was Larry’s Great Great Grandfather.

“No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.”

There were also some reminisces that Charles had written later in his life about his experiences in the war.  Touching history.