News Staff
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
October 14, 2021 To the Editor, Ainsworth Star-Journal, (And to anyone who thinks that flying the Confederate battle flag is an appropriate protest against the United States government.) One of my great-great-grandfathers on my father’s side, John Ross, moved his family to Manhattan in the territory of Kansas to try to see Kansas brought into the Union as a free state. Another great-great-grandfather, Daniel Drake, a middle-aged widower with a new wife and six living children, enlisted as a private in the artillery on the Union side and was killed.