Posted on 04/24/2005 6:08:20 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Wacky Mac....I am not a freakin computer. There is NO way I can possibly remember every fact all the time.
And I don't CLAIM to have anything. I do.
You on the other hand.........
I TRULY hope I have the pleasure of meeting your big mouth in person someday....... :)
Thanks....at least it WAS...it is becoming a haven for Marxist-Lenin types these days. They call our state Capitol the "Peoples Republic of Austin"....:)
Mix government jobs and government unions, and you'll get that crap. Don't feel bad, it's everywhere. It is the government unions that are the problem and until that is addressed, (not necessarily the employees) we have a problem.
Just like industrial unions, where I have some experience, members of gov unions don't pay much attention to what the leadership does. but the left has focused on controlling every union and use them to meet their agenda, not those of the average worker. They are worms that we must eradicate.
Is that a directed proscription, or does it apply to all --- including yourself?
Or is it simply more "shut up you uncouth Yankee, I don't want to hear any facts" that the neo confederates usually default to.
So far on this post, I have been accused of being stupid, of being a DU troll, and I'm not even sure what else. But as of now, I have yet to go after any individual like you have.
Perhaps, if you don't care for rigorous debate, based on fact, you may want to visit some other site. Or maybe grow up a little.
Actually, in our case it's not the unions, but the liberal academia of UT & the Government employees. Almost as bad as Unions......
Ditto:
I will cetainly vouche for the fact you are NO DU Troll, and in fact are usually very polite. Yes, we have had our disagreements over the causes etc. of the "Late UnPleasantness" but you have been a gentleman.
Mac: We all can get testy at times, myself included. The thing that we all need to keep in mind on these threads is that like it or not, we are all in the same boat, (or at least till the blue states secede! :) and we need to attempt to be civil.
He was a POLITICIAN, not a statesman, whose actions led to the deaths of over one million people.
The difference being that Lincoln won two consitutionally held elections to the office of President of the United States, despite the best efforts of a rotten group of southern slave hounds.
Oh yeah, and he beat a Democrat both times...
don't you get tired of being laughed AT??
free dixie,sw
Washington, D. C., May 19, 1864.
Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:
SIR: I have the honor to suggest that the ration as now issued to prisoners of war may be considerably reduced without depriving them of the food necessary to keep them in health, and I respectfully recommend that hereafter the ration be composed as follows, viz: [redacted]
I also recommend that ration of sugar and coffee, as above fixed, be issued only every other day.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.
[First indorsement.]
MAY 19, 1864.
The within recommendation is referred to the Chief of Staff, the Commissary-General and Commissary-General of Prisoners, and Surgeon-General for report.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
[Second indorsement.]
MAY 19, 1864.
Respectfully referred as above directed. Why not dispense with tea, coffee, and sugar and reduce the ration to that issued by the rebel Government to their own troops?
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
[Third indorsement.]
I concur with the views expressed by Major-General Halleck.
J. P. TAYLOR,
Commissary-General of Subsistence.
[Fourth indorsement.]
I respectfully approve of the reduction of the ration as suggested by Major-General Halleck.
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.
[Fifth indorsement.]
SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE, May 19, 1864.
The reduction proposed by Major-General Halleck could be carried out with the exception of the ration for the sick and wounded, who would require that proposed by Colonel Hoffman or more than its equivalent in medicine and hospital items.
Very respectfully,
J. K. BARNES,
Acting Surgeon-General.
[Sixth indorsement.]
MAY 27, 1864.
Proposed ratio, except that sick and wounded are to have tea, coffee, and sugar, approved.
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
[Seventh indorsement.]
The ration approved by the Chief of Staff and Surgeon-General approved.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/120/0183.cfm
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., May 31, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel MARTIN BURKE,
Commanding Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, N. Y.:
COLONEL: In reply to your letter of the 10th instant I have the honor to inform you that the circular from this office of May 7, in relation to prisoners of war, cannot be departed from, as it is the order of the War Department. ... I inclose herewith a circular establishing a new scale for the rations to be issued to prisoners. *
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.
CIRCULAR.] OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., June 1, 1864.
I. By authority of the Secretary of War the ration to be issued to prisoners of war, as announced in the circular from this office dated April 20, 1864, is hereby modified as follows, to go into immediate effect, viz: [redacted]
* See next statement.
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http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/120/0184.cfm
II. The difference between the ration as above established and the ration allowed by law to soldiers of the U. S. Army constitutes the 'savings" from which is formed the "prison fund."
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third U. S. Infantry. and Commissary-General of Prisoners.
the last time i was in Austin, i must have seen a 100 cars with the bumpersnicker:
"KEEP AUSTIN WIERD!"
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
In Kilpatrick's memoir, authored by Moore and published in 1865, he states the plan had the approbation of Lincoln and Stanton in all its details.
1. an IQ "above room temperature",
2. logic,
3. thought and/or
4. an educational level greater than 3d grade.
posting NONSENSE like # 1556 just makes you look like a DUMB-bunny.
why not shut off your PC, head over to the library & LEARN something/anything?
then, you MIGHT look smarter & not be the MAIN laughingstock of FR.
otoh, you COULD "log-off" of FR & head over to DU, where you :
1. could sup with Whisky Papa, #3 fan. cvn76 & other FORMER FReepers, who've joined the ANTI-freedom DU denizens
2.would be one of the more intelligent class of REVISIONIST, lincoln-worshiping damnyankees of the DIMocRATS party.
free dixie,sw
btw, your look SMARTER & more cultured in your "before my monthly bath" pix than i thought you would.
rotflmRao AT you!
free dixie,sw
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