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    General Warren was a potty-mouth.

    I thought I'd share this excerpt I found after an exceptionally boring workday at the Tredegar Iron Works. Colonel Charles S. Wainwright wrote this while at Cold Harbor, 1864:

    "I was talking with some of the corps staff, when the general returned, and seeing no preparations for the night, he ripped out at his staff generally. I used to think the Charleston hackmen the most profane in the world. Our army swears as badly as did Uncle Toby's in Flanders. I have heard Meade in one of his towering passions. But I never heard anything which could begin to equal the awful oaths poured out tonight; they fairly made my hair stand on end with their profaneness."
    Wainwright, Charles S. A Diary Of Battle: The Personal Journals Of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865. Da Capo Press, 1998.
    Jason C. Spellman
    Skillygalee Mess

    "Those fine fellows in Virginia are pouring out their heart's blood like water. Virginia will be heroic dust--the army of glorious youth that has been buried there."--Mary Chesnut
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    Re: General Warren was a potty-mouth.

    General Warren should have been a commodore instead. When a sailor swears, no one is surprised.

    Excuse me while I duck and run before the squids throw things at me.
    GaryYee o' the Land o' Rice a Roni & Cable Cars
    High Private in The Company of Military Historians

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      Re: General Warren was a potty-mouth.

      Bet he had a few expletives for Sheridan around 7pm on April 1st, 1865.
      John Marler
      Franklin, TN

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        Re: General Warren was a potty-mouth.

        Originally posted by Gary of CA View Post
        General Warren should have been a commodore instead. When a sailor swears, no one is surprised.

        Excuse me while I duck and run before the squids throw things at me.
        Consider things thrown. But Warren was an amateur. Swearing is an art form among sailors.
        [COLOR=Blue][SIZE=4][FONT=Verdana]Bob Dispenza[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
        [COLOR=Navy]US Naval Landing Party ([url]www.usnlp.org)[/url][/COLOR]
        [COLOR=SeaGreen]Navy and Marine Living History Association ([url]www.navyandmarine.org)[/url][/COLOR]

        "The publick give credit for feat of arms, but the courage which is required for them, cannot compare with that which is needed to bear patiently, not only the thousand annoyances but the total absence of everything that makes life pleasant and even worth living." - Lt. Percival Drayton, on naval blockade duty.

        "We have drawn the Spencer Repeating Rifle. It is a 7 shooter, & a beautiful little gun. They are charged to us at $30.00. 15 of which we have to pay."
        William Clark Allen, Company K, 72nd Indiana Volunteers, May 17, 1863

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          Re: General Warren was a potty-mouth.

          His peers must have believed he was not in violation of Article 3 or Article 5.

          Mike Stein
          Mike Stein
          Remuddeled Kitchen Mess

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          • #6
            Re: General Warren was a potty-mouth.

            Clearly the Articles of War, or the modern-day UCMJ do not apply to superiors, only to subordinates. ;-)

            Ron Myzie

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