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  • #46
    It's possible, but I'll have to talk fast. They know about you here.
    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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    • #47
      Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
      The Confederacy had a real chance of winning, actually. A few more incompetent Yankee generals and perhaps Lincoln losing his re-election and they could have had it in the bag. Thankfully that didn't happen.
      The south could have had no realistic expectation that the North would keep promoting such ****ing terrible generals. If the south had actually won it would have been purely down to the norths incompetence.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by kentonio View Post
        The south could have had no realistic expectation that the North would keep promoting such ****ing terrible generals. If the south had actually won it would have been purely down to the norths incompetence.
        Northern incompetence as well as southern excellence. Robert E. Lee, although he was on the wrong side, was an excellent commander. No one (except Drake) questions that.
        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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        • #49
          I can sponsor you, Ben. No problem there. Can hook you up with one of these certifications.
          Aww, thanks! You don't happen to know any pretty single Texan ladies who are into Canadian midgets would you?
          Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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          • #50
            I run sports teams named Dwarf Tossers. What do you think?
            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
            "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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            • #51
              I run sports teams named Dwarf Tossers. What do you think?
              You're actually fairly tall fwiw...
              Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
              "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
              2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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              • #52
                In the US I have to use a kind of southern accent to make myself understood, can I join the confederacy? can I? can I?
                Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                • #53
                  Just say that you're from East Texas, Horse.


                  BEN! The team tosses the dwarf. The team isn't comprised of dwarfs. Among the women associated with the team, some certainly find an attraction for the little people.
                  Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                  "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                  He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                  • #54
                    Cool. I shall have to travel up to Dallas sometime.
                    Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                    "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
                    2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                      Northern incompetence as well as southern excellence. Robert E. Lee, although he was on the wrong side, was an excellent commander. No one (except Drake) questions that.
                      I think Robert E. Lee is overrated and only has a good reputation because a number of people have a raging hardon for the Confederacy.

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                      • #56
                        He was pretty good, but the appallingly bad northern generals made most of the confederates look a lot better than they were.

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                        • #57
                          Stonewall Jackson was pretty amazing. There's a book in the collection of RIT Army ROTC called "Stonewall in the Valley" which lists his exploits in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. I've been reading through it and he pulled off some crazy ****. The author seems to think that the North often had higher quality men, but that the South had way way better officers.

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                          • #58
                            Jackson was top notch (usually) and Forrest was pretty special (the KKK racist *****). Struggling to think of many others who were really great though aside from just being good symbols like Stuart.

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                            • #59
                              There was also a Confederate Colonel named John Mosby who as far as I know pretty much invented modern guerrilla tactics. After the war he served in prominent positions in the Grant administration.

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                              • #60
                                I'll look him up, haven't heard of him before.

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