"If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox" Topic
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| John the OFM | 30 Aug 2024 1:05 p.m. PST |
The American historian and essayist Thurber wrote this piece of speculative alt-history in the 1930s.
I feel this topic is in keeping with the topics the ACW Discussion Board has been discussing the past few weeks. Any thoughts? Surely we have all read this in the past. |
 Murphy  | 30 Aug 2024 1:59 p.m. PST |
"Any thoughts? Surely we have all read this in the past." "Don't call me Shirley…."
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| Zephyr1 | 30 Aug 2024 3:01 p.m. PST |
"General Grant was standing by his command tent, when a minie ball shattered the whiskey bottle he'd been holding in his hand. The Johnny Reb sniper had just missed him. Grant swore, and tossed down the remains of the bottle in anger. Lee's army was doomed from that point on…" ;-) |
| Gray Bear | 30 Aug 2024 4:33 p.m. PST |
OFM: To quote the line from the baddie to Jacob McCandles in the movie "Big Jake:" "I thought you was dead." |
| John the OFM | 30 Aug 2024 4:38 p.m. PST |
link 🤷 I don't know why, but… |
| John the OFM | 30 Aug 2024 4:42 p.m. PST |
An army surrenders on its stomach. |
| Rich Bliss | 30 Aug 2024 6:46 p.m. PST |
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Col Durnford  | 31 Aug 2024 7:28 a.m. PST |
You've been gone too long old friend. |
 Der Alte Fritz | 09 Oct 2024 10:07 a.m. PST |
It is a very humorous short play. A local group put it on stage as "A Thurber Carnival" along with a number of other short plays in the show. |
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adds artillery to his soft-plastic Union forces.