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To: Badeye
A steamroller would be more appropriate, based on how he eventually won the war.

Hmmmm...take stuff from people and destroy railways or kill Southern men in the field in a futile bloodletting? Gee, what a horrible man Grant was...

183 posted on 05/24/2007 7:34:51 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: Mr. Silverback

‘A steamroller would be more appropriate, based on how he eventually won the war.
Hmmmm...take stuff from people and destroy railways or kill Southern men in the field in a futile bloodletting? Gee, what a horrible man Grant was...’

To be clear, I admire both sides. The whole era is facinating to me, and the wife and I are traveling to Gettysburg within the next month or so to pay homage to them all.


225 posted on 05/24/2007 7:54:57 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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