An N&O letter-writer takes umbrage at the bipartisan effort to pardon Civil War-era Governor W.W. Holden, denouncing him as a “pestiferous ulcer on the body politic.” (It’s hard to find good calumny like that anymore)

Then someone leaves on senators’ desks an “unflattering biography of Holden that quoted histories written by a deceased white supremacist and an apologist for white supremacists.”

I’m reminded of my older friend John some years back.  He had a grandfather who had fought in the Civil War. That mightily impressed young John, so he pressed his grandfather to tell him all about the war: “Tell me about it, Granddaddy. Tell me about fighting the Yankees.”