[Non-Sequitur]

Chivalry was [and is] not dead in the hearts of Southern men.

(*sigh*) You realize that the whole Barbara Fritchie poem is a myth, don't you?

[Salamander]

Wow!
You were actually *there*?

[I’ll give you a dollar if you go to Frederick and yell that in the public square]....:)

Apocryphal or not, it typified the treatment offered by Southern troops, as a whole.

Here’s something *not* apocryphal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28abolitionist%29

From the Pottawatomie massacre to poor Heyward Shepherd, ol’ Crazy Eyes Brown was a terrorist without conscience.