AGEod's American Civil War website
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." Mark Twain
AACW stuff
Wallpapers and map on the official website
Banner for signature on forums (I should make a new one...)
Banner for signature on forums (I should make a new one...)
Very nice indeed 
. Will use it as desktop background 
. Will use it as desktop background Forrest said something about killing a Yankee for each of his horses that they shot. In the last days of the war, Forrest had killed 30 of the enemy and had 30 horses shot from under him. In a brief but savage conflict, a Yankee soldier "saw glory for himself" with an opportunity to kill the famous Confederate General... Forrest killed the fellow. Making 31 Yankees personally killed, and 30 horses lost...
He remarked, "I ended the war a horse ahead."
He remarked, "I ended the war a horse ahead."
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"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. While we are permitted to scorn nothing but indifference, and do not pretend to undervalue the worldly rewards of ambition, we have seen with our own eyes, beyond and above the gold fields, the snowy heights of honor, and it is for us to bear the report to those who come after us."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
20th Massachusetts
Supreme Court Justice
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
20th Massachusetts
Supreme Court Justice
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Yeah, I know. I'm a lawyer. I had to read a lot of OW's bombasticity.
It still reads like "heartburn" to me.
Best O.W. Holmes anecdote for me? He was involved in a minor squabble with a neighbor farmer over to whom some pigs that had gotten loose belonged. Holmes was in the midst of waxing erudite, citing cases involving foxes, elephants, chickens, and even petroleum.
The old farmer stamped his foot, spit terbacky juice on the ground, and exclaimed, "Gol durn it, yerroner, if he's got a snout, hooves, and a curly tail and grunts and squeals, why, he's a pig, gol durn it!"
The porkers wound up remaining in the farmer's feedlot...
It still reads like "heartburn" to me.
Best O.W. Holmes anecdote for me? He was involved in a minor squabble with a neighbor farmer over to whom some pigs that had gotten loose belonged. Holmes was in the midst of waxing erudite, citing cases involving foxes, elephants, chickens, and even petroleum.
The old farmer stamped his foot, spit terbacky juice on the ground, and exclaimed, "Gol durn it, yerroner, if he's got a snout, hooves, and a curly tail and grunts and squeals, why, he's a pig, gol durn it!"
The porkers wound up remaining in the farmer's feedlot...
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