Posted on 04/01/2017 7:29:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I just finished this book about General Thomas Meagher (as will be in a few years). He and General Sherman deeply disliked one another.
Curious. Meagher does not appear in the index of the McDonough bio.
Too minor a figure in the trajectory of Sherman’s career, perhaps. They crossed paths early in the Civil War, when the Union army was just getting going, and at the end of Meagher’s life, when he was territorial governor of Montana.
“Without guns there’s no freedom.” —”TURN”, 3rd Seas, Epi 9
It’s on my list of things I want to do. There is such drama that is about to unfold involving this place.
Very interesting.
One thing the Leftist revisionists work very hard at hiding is the fact that as a result of the free market economy running with NO federal government interference in the 1800’s, the average American lived better than the average citizen in any other country and as well or better than many rich people in other countries.
In the recorded history of man, America in the 1800’s is one the very few examples of a truly free society.
I don’t see travel in my future. We just have tv.
Meagher was with the 69th New York Militia at First Bull Run and Colonel Sherman was his brigade commander. He viewed Sherman as something of a martinet, probably because Sherman was trying to instill army discipline in the volunteer regiments under his command in the short time available. Sherman, for his part, spoke highly of the 69th New York. The dislike may not have been mutual if Sherman didn't know Meagher, then a junior officer. Or it could have been; Sherman had a short temper.
Did you see the sikh and the Treasury in the movie “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade?” Some neat shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGN0LuEXBYY
According to the book, Meagher’s opinion of Sherman became public knowledge, and Sherman took Meagher in dislike. “Deeply” was probably too strong. “Instantly” would have been better word; in the author’s opinion, it was also “permanently.”
For fellow refugees from the WWII by day threads, I ran across a website with some interesting maps, a few of which I hadn’t seen. It’s the 40,000 feet view of the War. http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7148855/40-maps-that-explain-world-war-ii
Speaking of WWII by day threads, on Twitter I started following @WWII75YearsOn, who posts daily updates. I reply every day with the same old threads and reach a new and appreciative audience. One regular reader is Manuel L. Quezon III, grandson of the wartime President of the Republic of the Philippines. If you tweet and want to do it all over again you can follow @WWII75YearsOn or me (@dwdeardorff).
April 7. Journal sorely neglected of late, but I have been working night after night well into the small hours. The Senate passed Brooks’s second substitute (not the Hawks plan) 19 to 12, at two this morning. Very bad. I hoped we should escape a vote against us by indefinite postponement, but Thurlow Weed is omnipotent. I can’t see how we can prevent his forcing the bill straight through the legislature. However, Mr. Ruggles in his letter of yesterday predicted it could not get through the legislature.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Doing what, I wonder. Perhaps writing letters to lobbyists and legislators and editors, writing pamphlets, that kind of thing. So much more labor-intensive than Tweeting.
Samuel Ruggles was a prominent New Yorker and Strong’s father-in-law. Weed was known as “Boss” Weed and was extremely influential in Albany. The fissures are interesting because they were all nominally on the same side - former Whigs who became Republicans.
Thanks, I hadn't caught that.
I'm not sure what Weed's object was in the matter being considered in Albany, or how it related to Republican policy, but Strong and Ruggles, as Trinity Church Episcopalians, no doubt saw it transcending party politics.
I think you’re on to something, Homer. From what I recall, Weed was a very powerful machine politician. As we already know, Strong is a very principled man.
Maybe it was personal.
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