[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.

[Rodamala]

I am inclined to think that if Saddam were still around the mid-east would be a tiny bit more stable.

[AnAmericanMother]

Drive past that very marker on my way to dog training.

Here's the actual site - up in the woods.

The "Fighting Bishop" - Leonidas Polk.

[RedStateRocker]

And then there was General Reynolds (my last name, also).... The family joke is that his last words were “Those bastards couldn’t hit the side of a barn at this.....”