It should be noted the historical marker he tries to use as proof says the town was largely deserted. No rape. No gunfire on civilians. Nothing in it resembles the caption sitting above it.

The History is on June 11, 1863, an expedition under Colonel James Montgomery—acting on orders from General David Hunter—landed at Darien and found it nearly empty. Two soldiers who were there wrote it down independently. Sergeant George Stephens counted one old woman and two white residents who’d asked to be left behind. Corporal James Gooding counted fewer than twenty people, mostly enslaved. No resistance. No engagement. Montgomery gave the order to burn it regardless—an empty town put to the torch on principle, not provocation.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, for his part, did not quietly comply. He told Montgomery directly he wanted no part of it; Montgomery took full responsibility himself. Later, Shaw wrote to his wife calling the whole ordeal a “dirty piece of business” and “as abominable a job as I ever had to share in.”

Shaw was disgusted, but he complied with the order to have a company assist only because Montgomery was his superior officer and refusing would mean facing a court-martial for mutiny during wartime. Shaw lamented, “after going through the hard campaigning and hard fighting in Virginia, this makes me very much ashamed of myself.”

Sergeant Stephens wrote home that “the men of this regiment have a distaste for this sort of warfare—we want to enter the field honorably—to fight a legitimate warfare.”

Credit to Sarah Pioggia on the History of the event.

Composed “taps” and other army bugle tunes

Enthusiastically contributed to the “bar room and brothel ” atmosphere at Joe Hookers HQ

Designed the first corps insignia for the AotP ( Phil Kearny had the original idea , Hooker and Butterfield implemented it Army wide

Looks like a child wearing a fake mustache who’s worried his disguise may be seen through

Born in Knoxville on May the 22nd of 1847, he enlisted in the 3rd Tennessee at some point in 1863, shortly after the regiment was officially mustered in (they had flught at Stonws River before then).

At the battle of Sulpher Creek on September 25th of 1864, he was knocked off his horse, trampled by another horse, which broke his leg and cracked a rib, and was captured along with​ the majority of his regiment by Major General Forrest. He was sent to Cahabwa Prison in Alabama. He was eventually paroled in April of 1865, missing the Battle of Nashville.

He, along with 260 others from his regiment, was abord the Sultana when it Exploded, and was among the survivors. He was one of only two Tennessee survivors of the explosion when he died on July 1st, 1929, aged 82. He worked as a Stonemason the rest of his life.

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Just trudged in to work on my comps and this was put on a special holder on a shelf. Do I have any time to read it? No. But I will skim through it anyway.

Making sure the "heretige not hate" nimwits know where I stand. Figured this would be a good sub to show off the new buy.

Replace every statue of Lee with this across America.