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Alan Dugan - On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860-64Alan Dugan - On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860-64
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Because of the unaccountable spirit of the troops oh we were marched as we were never marched before and flanked them off from home. Stupid Meade was after them, head on to tail, but we convinced him, finally, to flank, flank, cut off their head. He finally understood, the idiot, and got a fort named after him, for wisdom. He probably thought Lee would conquer Washington from Appomattox if he, Meade, should march his infantry behind him, Lee. Ah well, the unaccountable spirit of the troops triumphed, Meade got his fort, Grant got his presidency, Sherman got his motto, what was it? War is heck?, Lee got a military school for the education of young Southern gentlemen, and the Union Army was taken over by Southern noncommissioned officers in the wars against the Indians to the west. I know all about this, I know who won, I served under them for three hundred and fifty years in World War II, just long enough not to be called a rookie but a veteran, and realized the rank and order of my enemies: first, the West Point officers; second, the red-neck sergeants; third, the Nazis and perhaps the Japanese. I won all of these wars as a private soldier, for a while, and am happy to have done so: without me Hitler and Hirohito would he ruling the world instead of America and Russia, but I still will not drive through Georgia with New York license plates.
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