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In reply to the discussion: Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule [View all]eppur_se_muova
(42,243 posts)Wilson's father was originally from Steubenville, Ohio, where his grandfather published a newspaper, The Western Herald and Gazette, which was pro-tariff and anti-slavery.[15] Wilson's parents moved south in 1851 and identified with the Confederacy. His father defended slavery, owned slaves and set up a Sunday school for them. They cared for wounded soldiers at their church. The father also briefly served as a chaplain to the Confederate Army.[16] Woodrow Wilson's earliest memory, from the age of three, was of hearing that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming. Wilson would forever recall standing for a moment at Robert E. Lee's side and looking up into his face.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#Early_life