Henry W. Grady
Henry Woodfin Grady (May 24, 1850 – December 23, 1889) was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the former Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. As a teenager he witnessed probably the fiercest fighting of that war in his home state of Georgia and lost his father William to a Union bullet.
Read more about Henry W. Grady: Early Life, Journalist, Orator and Spokesman For The "New South", Support For White Supremacy, Death, Legacy and Honors
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“The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)