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My boy, a properly supplied army does not rely on "camp followers" to supply its needs. The U.S. Army has all the pots and pans it requires. And I must protest the whiff of innuendo in your use of that term.

What kind of a General generally speaks of cereal with a hair cut like that? I am sweeping up but you are sweeping over. Too much sweep General. Is that the missing hair under your chin? Or is that cereal tucked in for a late night snack?

GWScott: "My boy, a properly supplied army does not rely on "camp followers" to supply its needs. The U.S. Army has all the pots and pans it requires."

Sir, this excerpt, from a recent book on Iraq:

"There have always been civilians who have quite literally followed armies. Establishing camps just outside the military perimeter, when the army moved, they moved, thus earning the name “camp followers.” While this term usually conjures images of prostitutes and unscrupulous merchants plying contraband to soldiers, the vast majority were likely soldiers’ wives and children, washer women, servants, slaves, photographers, religious ministries, journalists, military equipment contractors and sutlers purveying legitimate merchandise. By the time of the American Civil War, camp followers were sufficiently important to merit special mention in Dr. Francis Lieber’s famed General Orders 100 (1863), an early attempt to codify wartime conduct for Federal troops. It declared that, '[C] itizens who accompany an army for whatever purpose, such as sutlers, editors, or reporters of journals, or contractors, if captured, may be made prisoners of war….' "
http://www.hnn.us/articles/20067.html


-- and this link to the courtly manners towards the nurses and ladies of the evening I'm sure will strike a chord of familiarity, Sir:
http://ladiesofreenacting.com/CWCampEtiquette.html

-- thank you for gracing us with your opinion, General

How a soldier spends his pay when he is off duty is his concern. I am well aware that many avenues exist for such expenditures. But never let it be said that the U.S. Army failed to feed its men. Or its horses too, I might add. Our cavalry is mounted on some of the finest horses in the world, fed on good American oats. I am unaware what sort of cereal Mr. Dylan eats, but he could do far worse than the oats our Army horses eat.

General Lee's Traveller is one of my heroes, bravo for mentioning what fine warriors!

"And now at last,
Comes Traveller and his master. Look at them well.
The horse is an iron-grey, sixteen hands high,
Short back, deep chest, strong haunch, flat legs, small head,
Delicate ear, quick eye, black mane and tail,
Wise brain, obedient mouth.
Such horses are
The jewels of the horseman's hands and thighs,
They go by the word and hardly need the rein.
They bred such horses in Virginia then,
Horses that were remembered after death
And buried not so far from Christian ground
That if their sleeping riders should arise
They could not witch them from the earth again
And ride a printless course along the grass
With the old manage and light ease of hand."

— Passage from "Army of Northern Virginia', a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet

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Ah, General Lee. A sore subject in this household. A fine man, a fine officer, I would even say a friend. But what a loss to this nation when he declined to lead our Union army. What a brief war it might have been!

Woah! Fate - Jack Fate? My sign in is General Custer!

General Lee was a man faithful to his home. I honestly don't know whether one goes to war for self-defense, moral cause, or greed. I have never put my life on the line.

What say you General?

General Lee's home was the United States of America, of which the great state of Virginia is an indivisible part. Loyalty to one ought to be loyalty to the other. Virginia is my own home as well, and I would never let the rascality of a few puffed up slaveholders tell me otherwise.

I offer you the final word Sir, General W Scott!

I shall take leave now to participate in some more of my Polk-Salad-Annie-gators-got-you-granny salad preparations.


Elvis Polk Salad rehearsals 1970 Vegas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyL4GFhNe8&amp;v3<br><br>Post edited by: quanta, at: 2007/08/25 23:35

I don't think this is anyone's business and wish these type of offensive personal questions weren't debated here. I thought this new Pool would have rules and decorum?

Bravo Helpful Friend! And let me heartily second that!

No more Cival War/Army General talk in this thread please!


Thank You All,

NEP

Was my post deleted here? Where I pointed out that this idiotic thread was started by the Admin, who then chatised others for posting on it, and thus struck me as outrageous? If that is how this place works, I give this place 1 month, after that time, rather than the 5 posts per day, it'll be down to 2.