"General Philip Sheridan conversion." Topic
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Tango01  | 07 Feb 2026 1:46 p.m. PST |
" Another Chintoys figure in their mounted Union Generals set is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Historically he wasn't charging on horseback as a Colonel at Gettysburg and may not have charged with drawn sword when he was a Fifth Corps commander at the end of the Civil War. I suspect that the makers had seen Gettysburg and guessed that American and European collectors were fans of…… Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain…"
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| Frederick | 08 Feb 2026 8:12 a.m. PST |
Very nice! Sheridan is a very interesting character – stubborn, tough and a person who was not to be trifled with – also a person who didn't hesitate to share his opinions – widely disliked by the locals when he was commander of the Military District of the Southwest post ACW for enforcing Reconstruction – a feeling that was mutual, hence his comment "If I owned Texas and Hell I would rent Texas and live in Hell" – one biography I read about him and his command in the West post ACW said he had the "blend of elastic ethics and ruthless pragmatism essential for a field commander of an ambitious expanding republic" |
| Tango01 | 08 Feb 2026 2:14 p.m. PST |
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begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
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