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Wartime diary: Confederate officer gossiped in code about wives, including Jefferson Davis'
Fox News ^
| 10.13.2014
| AP via Fox News
Posted on 10/13/2014 11:41:11 AM PDT by dware
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A century and a half after Confederate officer James Malbone wrote his Civil War diary partly in code, a couple of Yankees have figured out why he took the precaution: He liked to gossip.
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posted on
10/13/2014 11:41:11 AM PDT
by
dware
To: dware
Snowden’s ancestor?...................
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posted on
10/13/2014 11:45:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: dware
I see a little heart in his “code” - I wonder if that was how he dotted his “i’s”? LOL
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posted on
10/13/2014 11:51:31 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: dware
I had never paid much attention to Varina Howell Davis until I ran across a (then) fairly recent book that contained some rather pointed - and witty - quotes. She was an interesting woman.
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
10/13/2014 11:53:30 AM PDT
by
niteowl77
(The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
To: niteowl77
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posted on
10/13/2014 11:58:29 AM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: dware
The Diary of Mary Boykin Chestnut is likewise full of gossip.
Even, it seems, with the world coming down around us, we can’t resist knowing what so and so was wearing.
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:23:44 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Ouchthatonehurt
The so-called "Liberal" racists of the Left would HATE to learn that the First Lady of the Confederacy was (like Queen Elizabeth) of African descent.
It would spoil their narrative. How they would scramble to reinvent it.
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:00:17 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
To: Pharmboy
A little off your beaten path, but I thought you might find this interesting and know who to pass it on to, if there is anyone.
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:34:39 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Savage Beast
An attractive and intelligent lady by all accounts.
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:53:11 PM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
My father and I read a collection of the Davises’ letters years ago. Dad thought Varina was whiny, while I thought she had a lot to whine about!
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posted on
10/13/2014 2:01:26 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
To: niteowl77
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posted on
10/13/2014 2:12:24 PM PDT
by
varina davis
(Gov. Rick Perry in 2016)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
Painting clearly have been "adjusted"
To: School of Rational Thought
She’s got a bad case of Picasso-eyes.
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posted on
10/13/2014 2:56:47 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: jocon307; SunkenCiv
I know just the person to pass it on to, jocon. Thanks for the ping...interesting!
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posted on
10/13/2014 6:23:32 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
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