"Butt-Headedness?"

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"Butt-Headedness?"

05-06-2009, 01:19 PM

Right after the surrender of Lee, Grant wanted to aid the Mexican republicans who sought to expel the French from Mexico. Seward, on the other hand, wanted to maintain neutrality. Sheridan was also in favor of taking military action against the imperialists. In a letter to Grant, Sheridan wrote that Seward�s policy towards the French-Mexican imperialists was the result of Seward�s, �butt-headedness or the indifference or vanity of old age.�
So in belated honor of Cinco de Mayo, I ask this question: when did "butt-head" and "butt-headedness" develop? Has anyone ever seen these words used in any other period literature? :party:

Yours, etc.,
Matt White
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"One of the liveliest rows I had while in the service was with the quartermaster for filling a requisition that I made for shoes for my company, on the theory that no shoe was too large for a Negro, and he gave me all 10's and upwards. When I returned the shoes, informing him that my soldiers did not wear pontoons, he insisted that I should take them and issue them to my company anyway. Well, I didn't do it: consequently the row."
-Robert Beecham 2nd Wisconsin/23rd USCT
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