Confederate Stuart was a much-admired personality

Public Opinion ^ | 05 October 2002 | CATHY MENTZER

[stand watie]

YEP, i do.

GEN Jackson would have thrown 4th Aabama back into the fight. Chamberlain's MAINE-iacs were BRAVE but nearly out of ammo. had we taken out 20th ME, the army of the potomac was TOAST!

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[stand watie]

CORRECT!

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[stand watie]

too bad "IV" isn't 1/2 the man his ancestor was.

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[STONEWALLS]

"Still revered today throughout the South in the same way Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson are immortalized, the young general was charismatic, brave and by all accounts, a brilliant cavalry leader."

....'the young general'.....they were all very young men..their facial hair plus the old photos make them look older than they were....the average general in the South was 35 and in the North was 37....Lee, in his 50s was quite an exception......to this day, I believe Custer holds the record for the youngest brigadier [23?] in the US Army's history.....a record that will probably never be broken....

Good luck to everybody!

Stonewalls

[BlueLancer]

"The Haunted Tank" comic series, featuring SGT Jeb Stuart commanding a Stuart tank which was haunted by old Jeb himself, was one of my favorites

[WhiskeyPapa]

Stuart, Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, Johnston, Hood, Davis...losers, all, and nothing but losers.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

Jesus, Walt, were you bitten by a SCV member when you were a kid or something?

[LTCJ]

Jesus, Walt, were you bitten by a SCV member when you were a kid or something?

ROTFLMBO, N-S! Well spoken, my Northern friend.

If not, this son of the South would happily remedy the oversight.

[stand watie]

NICE cartoon!

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[ArrogantBustard]

I think this is his idea of 'fun'. It used to be somewhat subtle "trolling", but this latest more qualifies as "chumming²"

[WhiskeyPapa]

You know the deal, as we used to say.

I read years ago that thousands of patriotic young men flocked to Old Glory in response to President Lincoln's call for volunteers to preserve the Union and the vast future of all mankind. By the battle of Fredricksburg, where they assaulted the unassailable over and over, they were mostly dead.

It was Stuart and Lee and Jackson and Lngstreet and the rest --fighting for the cause of slavery -- of all things, that killed those fine young idealistic men.

Now we see the constant rant of lies and distortion and false hero-worship on Free Republic and elsewhere. It just repels me.

Stuart, Lee, Jackson and the rest were not and are not heroes. They were vile traitors.

Walt

[stainlessbanner]

ROFTL! Non - that's gotta be a classic!

[ArrogantBustard]

Want another bucket?

[billbears]

If not, this son of the South would happily remedy the oversight.

You'd bite Walt? I don't know about that. There's a lot of things I'd do for the South but I don't know. How many shots you'd have to get afterwards?

[WhiskeyPapa]

Well, I would never chum aroumnd with - you. :-)

Walt

[LTCJ]

hero-worship on Free Republic and elsewhere. It just repels me.

Not nearly enough. No where near enough.

[billbears]

many shots you'd

Make that 'many shots would you'

[ArrogantBustard]

Your loss.

[Non-Sequitur]

Some of them go off the deep end, it's true. Anyone who has read a stand watie post when he is in full, mouth-foaming mode (which is just about all the time, come to think about it) knows that. But still, I think we can disagree on the cause that they fought for but still accept that most of those who fought for it did so honestly believing that they were right. Walt, my respect for you is immense but we have to agree to disagree on this one. Just like we agree to disagree on marines vs. Navy.

[LTCJ]

There's a lot of things I'd do for the South but I don't know.

Think of it as something akin to throwing yourself on a handgrenade. Not something you'd relish - but done for the greater good.