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From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:27:36 -0500
Yeah, I apologize for screwing up the name.  I worked with a guy named
"Bedford-Jones" once.  First hyphenated guy I ever met who wasn't a
Brit.  The "Jones" just slipped in.  No disrespect intended.

In fairness, the Northern generals used the advantage of numbers to
little advantage.  The same anguish you feel over Gettysburg I feel
about Fredricksburg, Chancelorsville, Chickamauga, and Coal Harbor
(not even Grant escaped humiliation).  When Lee assumed an offensive
strategy, he tasted the other end of the lash.

I didn't know that about Grant and Longstreet.  Grant was smart to
avail himself of Longstreet.  He knew that Lee was over-reaching at
Gettysburg.

What do you suppose went through Lee's mind in his last years?  The
feds took his land for Arlington National Cemetary, he refused a
college presidency, he died in 1870, he left no memoirs.  Did he say,
"Whew, glad that's over" or like Kurtz, in Heart of Darkness "the
horror, the horror."

I guess the most memorable thing he said (for me) is "It's a good
thing war is so terrible, else we'd grow too fond of it" or something
like that.

Joel W.

On 4/6/07, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> His tactics are still studied by today's military, as are those of ol' Bobby 
> Lee. Both were military tacticians of a higher order. Longstreet and Stuart 
> weren't bad either. If we hadn't been outnumbered two to one...never mind.
>
> One reason I'm a Civil War nut is that I appreciate the fact these men were 
> all gentlemen and honorable, despite working like hell to kill one another 
> for a while. Three of Longstreet's children died from some disease I don't 
> recall, and don't feel like looking up, while he was at war. It's amazing how 
> quickly the two sides of the war made up when it ended, despite four years of 
> carnage and destruction. When Grant became president, he made Longstreet his 
> minister to Turkey. I don't think there was a "Hitler" in the bunch.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Nathan Bedford Forrest. Victory goes to him what gets there firstest
> > with the mostest.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > > that would make
> > > Nathan Bedford Jones blush.

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