I honor all veterans, but I recently obtained a photo of my great-grandfather, Thomas Gillenwaters, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was born about 1835 in Hickory Cove Tennessee, spent much of his life in Fountain Run Kentucky and died in 1912 in Jeffersonville Indiana.
One photo shows him as a soldier. He is holding a Colt revolver. My grandma played with it as a toy about 1910—she then tossed it into the trash.
The other photo is recent—it is the Gillenwater Mansion in Jeffersonville—where he died.
