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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.

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.

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.