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To: wideawake
The plaque reads "on this spot" which is not true.

Unless there are authenticated maps of the battle, then there is no proof it didn't happen.

I recently read a Stonewall Jackson biography which mentioned that it took several months for Stonewall to put together battle reports.

Stonewall was so behind, he had an author on staff attempt to put together very detailed descriptions of the battle. Once completed, Stonewall eliminated huge sections of the reports and kept them very minimal.

29 posted on 11/25/2015 11:12:58 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

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32 posted on 11/25/2015 11:16:18 AM PST by mkjessup (What do terrorists, 'RATs and RINOs fear most? The prospect of President Donald J. Trump!!)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Unless there are authenticated maps of the battle, then there is no proof it didn't happen.

Yes, there are good maps of every battle that took hundreds of lives or more in the Eastern theater of the war.

And that's besides the point.

If you're going to claim that a battle happened there when there is zero historical record of it, it's on you to prove that it happened - not to someone else to prove the negative.

it took several months for Stonewall to put together battle reports

Jackson was an extremely eccentric individual - his habits are not predictive of the entire Confederate and Union officer corps.

And he is not the only person in his brigade to be tasked with preparing reports.

And his brigade were not the only units to be engaged in action.

Simple fact: there is no archaeological and documentary record of any battle action on that spot.

None whatever.

That spot is known in Civil War history.

It is near where J.E.B. Stuart forded his cavalry on his advance toward Gettysburg.

His cavalry met no resistance there (the area was under Confederate control).

This clown is entitled to invent imaginary history.

41 posted on 11/25/2015 11:28:16 AM PST by wideawake
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