Recent site activity  Home‎ > ‎  Charles K. Marshall 2,
researched by Hale  Death, Beginnings, and Travels of Charles K.
Marshall  Death, Beginnings, and Travels of Charles K. Marshall
A paper written by Robert E. Hale  "I’m all in favor of keeping
dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with
typewriters." (1)   I began on the tenth, and final floor of
Emory University’s Woodruff Library. The sun was casting my long
shadow behind my red, hooded, sweatshirt, as I slowly shuffled
through the material before me. Utterly uninterested, my
thoughts strayed elsewhere. After some time, I placed the aged
papers down on the wooden table and began to tune into our
speaker. At this moment, I heard Naomi, who is head librarian at
Emory’s MARBL special collections, say a sentence that was to
become the beginning of my long journey. "And this Chinese man
we believe fought for the Confederacy in our Civil War." The
sentence was simple yes, but a profound in its possibilities.
In the following pages, I have