That’s great, even better was the story about Davy Crockett when he was in Congress. He voted against a pension for a war widow on the grounds that Congress had no right to give away the people’s money, even in charity.
The plan he offered was that the members of Congress take up a collection for her from their own pockets.
I’m not sure by what stretch of the imagination Winfield Scott Hancock is considered a Southern general. He earned his highest distinction in beating back the Alabamans in the Union center at Gettysburg. He was born in Pennsylvania, and although he studied with Armistead and served under Albert Sidney Johnston, he declared for the Union as soon as hostilities began.
Never mind. I misread the comments by the good Congressman from Alabama.