[DL] Civil War Question

[John Vogel <velvetandiron@yahoo.com>]

Thanks, I'll certainly check out the link.

John

> Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 18:17:27 -0400
> From: serfmonkey@ameritech.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] Civil War Question
> 
> John -- The Civil War mythology that you vaguely
> remember sounds like the
> story of "Barbara Frietchie" as told in the
> narrative poem by John Greenleaf
> Whittier (1807-1892).
> 
> Stonewall Jackson is impressed by the feistiness of
> this little old lady who
> insists that she won't take down her Union flag. He
> decides to allow her to
> keep it up:
> 
>     "Who touches a hair of yon gray head
>     Dies like a dog! March on!" he said.
> 
>     All day long through Frederick street
>     Sounded the tread of marching feet:
> 
>     All day long that free flag tost
>     Over the heads of the rebel host.
> 
> The complete text of the poem can be found at
>
http://users.erols.com/kfraser/union/homefront/frietchie.html.
> 
> The Schoolmaster
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 18:57:49 -0500
> From: zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu
> Subject: Re: [DL] Hucksters and Backlash
> 
> > The huckster in my posse...drew 4 black jokers in
> one night of play.
> > Yeah, bad luck seems to be his middle name...if
> not mumbles.
> 
> You think that's something? Our HoE Huckster, in the
> Unity adventure, mind
> you, drew THREE royal flushes (only one with a
> Joker, and even then it was
> Red) last week and another this week. He decided
> during creation that his
> character had sold his soul, and it would seem game
> reality is having an
> influence on ours!
> 
> Nick Zachariasen
> Editor Emeritus
> Trojan Times
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> End of deadlands-digest.20030503
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