Lexington

Thank you very much for the call.

Les in Lexington, Missouri.

Hey, Les, what's up?

Tom, I just thought I'd bring up the subject of convicted criminals being able to vote in a lot of states now.

They met first at a religious gathering, and it was a case of love at first sight.

My grandmother's people lived in Lexington, Kentucky, and she was educated in a Catholic convent in that city.

The Cole family, of which my grandmother was a member, was of old revolutionary stock.

Her grandfather was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.

March 14, 1865, the guerrillas in Missouri held a conference to talk over a plan of surrender.

The Confederate armies everywhere had surrendered, with the exception of Shelby's brigade, which was going into Mexico to espouse the cause of Maximilian.

The guerrillas at this conference decided to surrender and with the exception of Clements, Jesse James and several others, and bearing a flag of truce, they marched into Lexington, Missouri to allow all who wanted to surrender to do so.

My father rode at the head of the column and bore the white flag of truce.

I'm Luke Lamana, and this is Wartime Stories.

Wentworth Military Academy is located in Lexington, Missouri, and this story was shared online by a former cadet.

Wentworth is an old military school, and like a lot of old military schools, it has its fair share of stories.

old buildings, locked rooms, rumors that get passed down from the older cadets to the new ones.

The doors inside are the heavy weighted kind that are designed to be hard to throw open.

On another occasion, cadets saw these floating Civil War era officers and soldiers walking around the halls and through closed doors, going into the closed rooms.

Word on campus was that these were the ghosts of soldiers who fell and died during the two battles of Lexington during the Civil War, which the ground the school was built on.

There was also a particular door in Hickman Hall that was known to open and slam shut on its own.