I'd say y'all might get some drunj history but as you can see, getting a refill is gonna be a problem
She's purring SO loudly
Okay, I got refills
She's relocated her base which means that I'VE GOT TIME AND SPACE FOR DRUNJING
Ok ok ok. Lessee...
OH
HEY
LET'S TALK BOUT THAT CRACKER LINE AT CHATTANOOGA
And you're like ugh, no, that sounds like grocery shopping
FINE
Lemme rephrase that
Who wants to talk bout how that dude who they named a fort after that got horny on Twitter got his ass kicked
YES I KNOW THE GRAMMAR BROKE DOWN, YOU'LL GET OVER IT
Ok ok ok
So it's like 1863 and all that shit, and William Rosecrans basically blindfolded that rebel asshole braxton bragg, spun him around three times, pinned a tail on him, and maneuvered his ass outta Tennessee in a goddam SYMPHONY of maneuver
Some lyrical shit, man
Bragg suddenly wakes up one day in Georgia and is like "oh fuck, how did I end up like this" and calls for help from Bobby Lee who's like, fine, have some reinforcements, and so Bragg attacks Rosecrans, because that's what ya do, and wins a basic bitch victory at Chickamauga
But there's a probbbbblemmmmmm for ol B-squared
And his name is George "fuck the hell right off" Thomas, who just doesn't know what retreating in front of rebels even is
I mean, he's from Virginia, but still wearing that ol US blue, and lives for schwacking rebels
Anyways, Thomas buys everyone enough time to get back to Chattanooga and Bragg rushes up and begins besieging the shit out of things as best he can
Lincoln freaks the fuck out and sends in US Grant to save the day
Lemme tell ya
The Army of the Cumberland didn't need no rescue
Grant shows up OTD in 1863 just as Rosecrans gets his resupply line established - called the cracker line because it brought crackers in - that's just exactly how imaginative they were at naming shit back in the 1860s
Ummmm... Right. Yes. So. Besieged
Ok, so here's how this shiznit lay. Confederates up on this long ass ridge named for their sex lives - Missionary Ridge. Some of em up on Lookout Mountain, on their left. Some of em dug in on their right
Grant's looking around like "lotta high ground up there"
Now Grant, he devises a cunning plan. Super cunning. He's gonna attack the rebs with Willy Sherman on their right. Then he'll have some newly arrived troops from the east under Joe "Yes, that's actually my last name" Hooker make a feint against Lookout Mountain
Sherman and Grant are buds, they arrived to this total loser army, in their opinion, and are like the cool kids in high school, sitting at their own table, attacking in their own cool kid way
And totally faillllllling
Except for Hooker on Lookout Mountain, who's soaring like an
Sherman gets all kinds of hung up so Grant asks Thomas to make a demonstration in the middle against the impossibly strong sex ridge
I mean, Missionary Ridge
So, Thomas sends his boys after the first rebel line at the bottom of the ridge. But they alllllllll kinda mad
See, they've NEVER LOST and they don't like this implication of WT Sherman and Ulysses SG coming to "save" them
So, they take the first rebel line and, uh, keep the fuck going
Grant and Thomas are sitting in an orchard. Grant mumbles something about someone catching hell
Sheridan, probs a tad drunk, def short, toasts the enemy artillery, then gets mud splattered all over his uniform by a rebel shell
"That was ungentlemanly. I'll take your guns for that," he says, all short and whatnot.
Thomas's boys goin straight up Unimaginative Sex Ridge
Grant asks who ordered them to do this
Thomas shrugs. Maybe moves an eyebrow.
They watch the flags go straight up Basic Sex Ridge, as Wisconsin, Illinois, and Ohio vent some Big 10 rage on the SEC
Now, Missionary Ridge is a strong af position. But the rebs can't angle the guns down low enough
Also, their morale can't go any lower even though they'd just won but now they're surrounded by pissed of Midwesterners with bayonets
And then the rebs begin to RUN
Sure, everyone had seen the rebs retreat. But... Run? Straight leggin it
Bragg's army was straight up runnnnnnning allllllll the way back into Georgia with their proud leader (for whom we named a horny base for, let me remind you)
And that's how Braxton Bragg got his ass kicked at Chattanooga
Willy Sherman would take this opportunity to run after Atlanta & then Savannah & burn. It. All. Down.
Allllll down.
Cause that's what you get when you do a treason to defend enslaving people
Ok, overlooking that the author read one book and then decided that he now understands all historiography about Gettysburg, let's talk about why this title and this piece are incredibly garbage takes
Thanks to @DavidLarter for getting me pissed off of a Saturday morning
First - that title - the Maine story at Gettysburg. My dude, the Maine story at Gettysburg is NOTHING but worthy of the reels. From Cpt Hall withdrawing his guns by recoil from McPherson's ridge to the 16th Maine's heroic charge as the I Corps rear guard on Day 1...
Where the 180 dudes literally hold off 5000 rebels for 20 minutes & then tear their colors to shreds before being overrun - or the 4th Maine in Devil's Den, retaking the NY guns with the bayonet - or the 17th Maine in the Wheatfield, which also runs out of ammunition...
Reading the "Black Codes" passed by southern states during Reconstruction, placing freed people into conditions as close to slavery as they could make them
Sherman should've mowed the deep south like a lawn, making multiple passes
I hate institutional racism so goddam much
29 July, 1866 - New Orleans police (mostly ex-rebel troops) attacked a delegation of whites and blacks meeting to amend the LA state constitution. Police fired into the crowd, which took shelter in the convention hall. Police broke down the doors, firing into the mass, killing 38
Army declared martial law in the city, Sheridan concluded "it was no riot, it was an absolute massacre by the police" and compared it to Fort Pillow. When the city did nothing to investigate, Sheridan sacked the city leadership & forced the police to be 50% US Army vets
Going through some of my grandpa's WWII photos. He did some of his pre-war training at the Carlisle barracks in Pennsylvania before heading to Camp Polk for maneuvers and then Camp Miles Standish prior to embarkation to North Africa in spring, 1943.
Caption reads, Bizerte shoreline from LST, December 28, 1943
Not sure the date is correct, because the LST number was incorrect
Grandpa liked to doodle. And carve. And he left his doodles around North Africa...and Italy...and southern France
Well, well, well, what have we here. A disheartened populace and a bottle of gin. Just like..
17fuckin81 and it's time for some goddam yorktown and hell, I dunno, maybe even some Daniel Morgan doing some crazy ass double envelopment shit along the way
It's THURSDAY, people
Ok, so - 1779 in NY and it's like the goddamned holland tunnel - gridlocked like a mothafucka. Henry Clinton can't get out, G. Washington can't get in. You got Lord Germain in London all anxious for someone to do something
So the Brits run off and take savannah GA
Now, this might seem ass backwards, but the Brits have this idea that MAYBE there's all these magical loyalists in the south who r gonna materialize put of thin air once the Redcoats march in so they go ALL IN on the dirty south
Honestly, instead of doing pushups to bring awareness to the veteran suicide issue, how about we destigmatize mental health treatment in the military and leaders be open about how we *all* struggle at different points in our lives
I'll start - I've been in therapy for 2 years
It started because I'd buried stuff from my past for a long time - my upbringing told me that men just suck it up, put their heads down, and push on. Add military service and a deployment in there, and I was struggling. I finally decided to talk to someone about it.
But even then, it took me SIX MONTHS to finally pick up the phone, such was my hesitance to admit that I alone couldn't handle it. Six months to break through the lying point in my brain that told me that "you're weak if you do this. You can't lead troops"
How the 1932 Bonus Army - which brought dramatic change to how the US government treated its war veterans - was painted in 1932
It was on this day in 1932 that the Bonus Expeditionary Forces was attacked by the US Army:
"I was treating a man who had been overcome with heat when in came soldiers with bayonets and gas masks..I'd been 18 months overseas and knew what that meant"
Even after the Bonus Marchers were evicted from DC, they moved to MD and PA. Law enforcement was called to account for their unusual activities - many cited communist influences among the bonus marchers