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23 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Stuck behind a commemorative truck fire in Pennsylvania is pretty much just peak Pennsylvania
It's commemorative because 1) @TaubHistory says so and because 2) if something isn't on fire on a highway in PA, something is wrong
Everytime I drive on PA roads, I think of Sgt Henry Richards of 2d US SS, a teacher from Portsmouth, NH, on the march to Gburg: “God Damn your Pennsylvania [!] The Rebels ought to destroy the whole state if you can’t afford better roads. This road is worse than Virginia Roads."
IT WAS A LITERAL DUMPSTER FIRE

AN ACTUAL DUMPSTER ON FIRE ON A TRUCK BED

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These are the arguments historians live for. Had one earlier on just how terribly Valley Forge - or any RevWar encampment - must have smelled, given that commanding officers often threatened soldiers with extreme punishments for defecating randomly about the place
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8 Jul
The white supremacist rifle clubs attacked Black members of the South Carolina Militia (today the National Guard), torturing several before they killed them, in a deliberate act to show their disdain for the civil authority and freedpersons.
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5 Jul
We close out today with the true story of the heroes that saved the world from aliens in 1996

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5 Jul
Judging from the sounds outside, the neighborhood kids are playing "how many roman candles before we lose a finger" and so I therefore deduce it's July 4

And since it's July 4, I've had some gin, and do you have a moment to talk about the Gibraltar of the West?

Of course you do
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We begin with the Mississippi river. It's a bigass river. Like. Big. Ass.
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It's around 0730 on the sunny, already-humid morning of July 1, 1863. One of the many blue-coated cavalry patrols and videttes posted to the roads surrounding the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania spots the movement of heavy columns of butternut uniforms west of the town
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PSA: this account is going to be mostly Gettysburg-based for the next few days, with some Vicksburg thrown in, so if that's not your thing, be warned

This begins with the annual re-watch of "Gettysburg," coinciding with the next gin and tonic, in about fifteen minutes
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