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To: DUMBGRUNT
Weirdest and most corrupt General: Benny Butler.


21 posted on 10/01/2016 10:47:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Spooooooooons Butler. Folks in New Orleans did not like him a bit.

Bragg was so disliked that (anecdotally anyway) during the Mexican War, someone put a lit cannonball under his bunk. It went off, but, Bragg survived.

Bragg’s problem was he was a great organizer, but, a terrible field commander. He should have been moved to Richmond much earlier than he was.


30 posted on 10/01/2016 12:31:38 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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