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A Christmas present for President Lincoln

Posted on 12/22/2021 8:44:31 AM PST by Bull Snipe

President Lincoln receives the following telegram from Major General William T. Sherman “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.”


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1 posted on 12/22/2021 8:44:31 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

Cotton is racist. It was picked by slaves. Ban cotton.


2 posted on 12/22/2021 8:53:54 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: FatherofFive

That’s right.

Q-tips must be banned./s


3 posted on 12/22/2021 9:07:44 AM PST by laplata
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To: Bull Snipe; All

And all these years later, we are still in servitude...
I pray that I am wrong but I can see how our beloved St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be cancelled yet again...
Between the Unions and Northern Money, my hometown is run by a twisted minority that just like Sherman, was handed over by good people fleeing the city.


4 posted on 12/22/2021 9:09:08 AM PST by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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To: Bull Snipe

30 years ago, when I was working in Kinko’s in Savannah, they had us making T-shirts. We were told to practice making our own so we knew how to do it. I made one with the 1870 military map of Savannah on the front, and, Sherman’s note to Lincoln on the back.


5 posted on 12/22/2021 9:47:49 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: SavannahWonderer

We always went to the parade when I was a kid. Once I started working full time, I would volunteer to work for others that day.


6 posted on 12/22/2021 9:56:19 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: Bull Snipe
Meh. I'm sure old Adolf received a similar notice when the Germans captured Warsaw.

Murdering invaders using superior numbers to invade other people's lands has been going on since the beginning of time.

7 posted on 12/22/2021 10:08:49 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: SavannahWonderer

The Savannah St. Patrick’s Day event has changed. It used to be a fun event. Two years ago I attended, which was the year of all the blm crap. Shortly after nightfall when the good bands normally start up there was a blm rally right in front of the Hampton Inn. We were getting some street food from one of the food trucks and I grabbed my wife and told the rest in our party it was time to go.
My MO has been in Savannah for over 30 years and it’s sad that she has watched the city decline so much. The leadership are primarily “give me dats”
Which is why they’ve seen the rif raf get away with almost everything.
Even Tybee has changed, the same weekend we were there was a black biker or some other organizations get together. Was a sad spectacle.


8 posted on 12/22/2021 10:35:30 AM PST by TermLimits4All (Biden will never be my President. There’s only 1 option left and it won’t be pretty.)
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9 posted on 12/22/2021 10:42:00 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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10 posted on 12/22/2021 10:42:00 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: laplata

Q-tip was one bad dude, and he ran with a bunch of bad boys...


11 posted on 12/22/2021 5:18:48 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

I don’t remember that name.


12 posted on 12/22/2021 7:08:09 PM PST by laplata
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To: laplata

It was a play on the name of Xiden’s fictitious arch nemesis (Corn Pop) from when he claimed to be a lifeguard.


13 posted on 12/22/2021 7:52:54 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Thanks.


14 posted on 12/22/2021 8:48:15 PM PST by laplata
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