Interesting bit of history regarding sex and the DC elite. Know you know.
1 posted on
01/14/2018 1:28:41 PM PST by
WeWaWes
To: WeWaWes
2 posted on
01/14/2018 1:29:41 PM PST by
WeWaWes
(When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
To: WeWaWes
It was the first time the defense of temporary insanity was used in a court of law. It was successful.
3 posted on
01/14/2018 1:31:06 PM PST by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: WeWaWes
4 posted on
01/14/2018 1:33:22 PM PST by
TexasGator
(Z)
To: WeWaWes
This incident was covered in a lively, novelistic fashion in Thomas Keneally’s book about General Dan Sickles.
5 posted on
01/14/2018 1:35:27 PM PST by
Tax-chick
("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
To: WeWaWes
Daniel Sickles, later as a Union Major General in the Army of the Potomac,
got his come-uppance when a cannon-ball from either a Texan or Arkansas battery
came a-smashin into his leg during the 2nd-day at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
To: WeWaWes
Daniel Sickles, later as a Union Major General in the Army of the Potomac,
got his come-uppance when a cannon-ball from either a Texan or Arkansas battery
came a-smashin into his leg during the 2nd-day at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
To: windcliff
11 posted on
01/14/2018 1:44:43 PM PST by
stylecouncilor
("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
To: WeWaWes
It gets better.
Four years later, Now GENERAL Dan Sickles, promoted BECAUSE he was a congressman, in command of a corps at Gettysburg, was worried about his position, on the left flank of the Union position, and moved his corps forward, to what he perceived as a better spot, along a road and in a peach orchard. Both his flanks were in the air, and it left the rest of the army's position exposed.
Longstreet hit like a trip hammer, and all but wiped Sickle's corps out.
Sickles was hit by a cannon ball, just below the knee, and was carried off the field, smoking a cigar. They took his leg off, above the knee, what was left, and asked Sickles what they should do with it. He told them to pack it in salt, and send it to the Army Medical Museum.
In later years, he would visit the bones, in a glass case.
It's still there, in the Nation Museum of Health, in Silver Springs, Md.
http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm?p=media.news.article.mrmc_to_exhibit_amputated_leg
12 posted on
01/14/2018 1:45:38 PM PST by
jonascord
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To: WeWaWes; Lazamataz; bagster
Is this your way of making fun of Philip Barton Key II?
15 posted on
01/14/2018 1:53:30 PM PST by
Larry Lucido
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To: WeWaWes
Interesting article. Sickle’s young wife never fully reconciled with her husband after this incident, dying prematurely in 1867.
19 posted on
01/14/2018 2:03:29 PM PST by
Ciexyz
(I'm conservative & traditionalist, a nationalist and patriot.)
To: WeWaWes
To: WeWaWes
Yes, we do and very interesting....thanks. Interesting site.
To: WeWaWes
Democrat politicians, getting away with murder via insanity, since 1859. Driven insane that the other side would dare do… what they were already doing. The literal truth!
23 posted on
01/14/2018 2:43:32 PM PST by
JohnBovenmyer
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To: WeWaWes
That article is some of the smarmiest, lousiest writing I’ve encountered in a long time. :-(
30 posted on
01/14/2018 6:53:43 PM PST by
TXnMA
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