including my great-grandfather, crowder patience, and company c. of the 103rd pennsylvania regiment. i was quite surprised to see how my great grandfather birth certificate can his surname -- being illiterate runaway slave who had not been allowed to learn how to read or write, he would not have been able to spell his name when he enlisted in the union army. therefore, the recruiter wrote what he presumed he was hitting. of the military records his name is spelled various ways. the final spelling is the surname pennsylvania teachers gave his first child when he entered the first grade in 1881. one of grandpa's favorite pastimes was to congregate with his local jiyai our comrades come just like sammy j. patterson would 12 miles away. i have no idea those two old veteran who knew each other 12 miles was quite a distance by wagon. interestingly, though, two of his granddaughters of samuel j. patterson's granddaughters married two of crowder's grandsons, two generations later. 12 miles was such a great distance by automobile in the 1920s. [laughter] th