Re: Civil War

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

I believe, dear sir, that the more genteel of us, the ladies in particular,
prefer the term- " The Late Unpleasantness" when referring to that period of
our country's history.  :)
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, 08 November, 1997 12:23 PM
Subject: Civil War

>Well, I inhabit a Yankee city in a Southern state, just one of the other
>ambiguities in my uncertain life.
>
>One of my ancestors fought for the South at Phillipi, was captured, and
>deemed so vital to the Southern War Effort that the Yankees let him go
>after promising 'not to fight the Union again', the so-called 'Lincoln
>pill'.  Another relative did spend the war years riding with Jeb Stuart,
>but he was a pretty distant kinfolk at best:  interestingly, he had one
>leg, the original 'Monopod Trooper'.
>
>The rest of my kin were Bluebellies.  My great-grandfather served in the
>206th Pennsylvania in April, '65:  he was in the first unit to march into
>Richmond.  I love dropping this on CCV matrons when they get snitty about
>the War of Northron Aggression.   (I can recoup my status, though, as
>another relative was Adjutant to the Virginia Regiment during the French &
>Indian War.)
>
>So, damn straight, brother, GLORY!  Glory, Hallelujah!  Save your Dixie
>Cups:  the South shall Rise Again!
>
>By the way, there's a camera show in Charlotte next weekend:  it will be a
>grand one for Leica folks, as this is a user show, and there are generally
>a couple of panicked collector dealers there who, generally, will knock a
>LOT of their asking prices.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>