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Are my eyes playing tricks on me or are those Johnnies dressed up like bushes sneaking up on the Federal videttes?
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Re: I think the forest is moving ...
But, Berdan's would have been playing for the same team as the videttes!Originally posted by Charles Heath View Post
It reminds me of a scene from a Shakespeare play (maybe "King Lear"?), where he notices the forest is moving and it is the enemy advancing behind shrubs they are holding in front of them.Joe SmothermanComment
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Oh man, I see the next Bully Buy from The Rambling Irishman/Carter and Jasper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![B]Justin Morris[/B]
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Intersesting drawing, it reminded me of 1941 when the Japanese Invading party kidnapped Slim Pickens from the Christmas Tree Farm. Unlike Mr. Hollis P. Wood the federal videttes don't seem to be fooled.Jake Koch
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-Pvt. Carl Sievert, 3x Great Uncle, Co. H, 7th New York Infantry (Steuben Guard). Mortally Wounded at Malvern Hill.Comment
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This is Virginia's spouse posting.
"'Til Bernam Wood do come to Dunsinane" is from Macbeth.
Maybe these soldiers were just engaged in a bit of a theatrical presentation. And those miscreants from the union army spoiled the show by shooting at them!
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Actually I think Jake is onto something. It's Christmas-time, and those nice Rebs are just bearing trees as "gifts" to the heathen Federals.....
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't." -- Macbeth (Act I, Scene V).Rich Croxton
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Thanks for the Billy Shakes reference. I knew I had heard the lines, but it has been many years since I just sat and read Billy Boy.
God, wait til the farbs get a hold of this.Joe SmothermanComment
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