[Repeal The 17th]

An upturned cannon waymark in the Glenwood Triangle of Atlanta currently marks the place where Walker was killed...
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[DoodleDawg]

Walker had been wounded so often in his Army service before the Civil War that his nickname was ‘Shotpouch’.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah, but across the street from us over on Stilesboro road is the marker where another Confederate general was shot through with a single cannon round from the union gunners on Pine Mountain, aiming about 5000 feet at the Confederates observing them shoot.

Who appoints the generals who fail their country?
Obama, Jeff Davis, the Kaiser, ....

Wilson got lucky with Pershing. It was one of the few decisions he made that was right. Bush was ill-served at the end of the First Gulf War when HIS generals back in Washington at the Pentagon and White House lost their nerve and refused to fight down the highway towards Baghdad. As a result, Saddam was able to survive, his military and his government were kept more or less intact, and we had to fight again.