Yeah, Stoneman was a good one. No John Buford, but sadly John had passed by then. Ol' John was from down the road in these Bluegrass parts. A real Union man. Edited to add... Buford died, likely of Typhoid, a few months after Gettysburg. I had forgotten that he died at Stoneman's house in DC. They were good friends. And now you know The Rest of the Story. I'm Paul Williams......... good day!
Virgil Strickler, GM of the Ohio State Expo Center/State Fair. He is the one who first publicly raised red flags about The Crew/City of Columbus project at the fairgrounds.
I didn't know Buford died at George Stoneman's house. Very interesting. I am a huge John Buford fan.I have a photo of him with his staff on the wall next to a big bookcase. Most people don't realize that he basically started the Battle of Gettysburg on his own when his cavalry bumped into that idiotHeth's infantry on the Carlisle road. Any other cavalryman in the AotP would have gotten the hell out of there. Cavalry couldn't stand up to infantry. But Buford loved a fight, refused to back down and sent word to John Reynolds. Who in turn died an hour or two later but not before a whole bunch of guys were there shooting at each other.
In-f'n-deed. Sam Elliot should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Buford in Gettysburg. His "gold watch fobs" rant to Devin is a classic and pretty much lifted word-for-word from The Killer Angels. Except it was an internal soliloquy in the book. RIP to John Reynolds, he would've lived had he accepted the position at the head of the AotP, but wanted to do things his own way without interference from Halleck et al.
You didn't call for one, so no KHT punishment required. Besides, @puttputtfc is back, so I'll never get there first again!
Fictitious speech, but the facts are pretty much spot on. They teach it at US Army Command School as both an example of terrain analysis and a subordinate officer taking responsibility. He was a Brigadier with 2500 men who decided on his own to stand up to an entire Confederate Corps because he couldn't accept ceding Cemetary Hill to Lee without a fight. That "et al" includes that Lincoln fellow, who figured that, as the freakin President, he had a right to a little bit of say.
IMO, newspapers are dying because they're really yesterday's news that nobody has time to read anymore... remember breakfast when the dad would look at the news and the kids would look at the comics and sports? Anyone with a smartphone can learn about the 4:30pm breaking news event at 4:31. By the time the 6pm newscasts hit, it's old news. If it's 4:30am breaking news on the 18th, it *might* be in the newspapers on the 20th. Now it's all about leaving the house with barely enough time to stop at the Starbucks drive-thru. Regarding practices: A once-a-year open practice at the stadium could make a nice benefit for STMs, but I'm sure the CBA would say otherwise.
I'm scrolling through posts sort of skim reading them and all of a sudden I'm like wait, how did we go from Obetz to civil war stories, with a sprinkled in mention of the Virgil douche who got butt hurt city leaders didn't include him in future of Maprfre discussions.? This F'ing board can go completely off the rails in like 3 minutes.
Christ almighty, I forgot how good that movie is. And the book, too. BRB, going to go dig it out of the bookshelf and put it in the "to read" stack.
Buford's decision only really mattered because Lee was too stubborn/proud/sick?? to, you know, not attack a dug in enemy at its strongest point. Thank god, or else we would probably have some racist a s s h o l e as presid...............
Wow. Some people can look at a bowl of Cheerios and find a reason to drag their narrow, ignorant, brainless political opinions into it somehow. These people need to seriously get out more.
Even though I knew who Virgil was, this is the first thing I thought of too. Although I only know it through the Zac Brown Band version of it. I need to learn more about Civil War History.