westcobbdog
Senior Member
I once said the Etowah was the Rubicon of Ga.
I personally led my men with sword in hand through some serious fire to route the yanks out of their strong defensive position at Boatswain's Creek in the 7 Days , my boys captured 22 yankee cannons previuosly hub to hub and spitting out death. .
I once said the Etowah was the Rubicon of Ga.
I am reading a book about these battles now, but havent got to that part yet..... It sure sounds like that old Ga General J.B. Gordon to me.
I have read several books about the rascal who made that statement.
It was that villian WT Sherman (had to spit to get the taste of that name out of my mouth)
I claim to have fired 120 shots in one day and that I hit a man with almost every shot.......who am I
Co Aytch...Sam Watkins of TN.
I live near that spot. Too many dead yanks became a human abatis that day and kept the good guys position from being over run.
I claim to have fired 120 shots in one day and that I hit a man with almost every shot.......who am I
Indeed it was Sam Watkins. In my reading of Company Aytch it seemed to me that Mr. Watkins may have embellished himself a tad in his memories of the war, but it was almost 20 years after the war when he wrote that book.
Our SCV group is doing a field trip to the Dead Angle next month. A historian is giving a 2 hour walking tour of the Cheatham Hill area.
I had to get working early this morning so I missed my chance to say:
You sir are a braggart and, most probably, a liar to boot.
Charleston comes to mind..
Milkman said:What southern city was under seige during the wbts and had been seiged in an earlier war??
New Orleans?