Happy Birthday, SouthernN'Proud!
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SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
[Redd Foxx]Hold on, it's the big'un, Elizabeth![/Redd Foxx]
The first digit of my age is now a 4. For those of you who have yet to reach this plateau, I can tell you from personal experience that, upon waking on that day, the first thing you feel is a severe leg cramp. It seems to be downhill from there though.
Many thanks y'all. Nice pics BB. And that book you pictured on the far right? I highly recommend it. Second only to the Bible in fact.
Party like it's 1899!
The first digit of my age is now a 4. For those of you who have yet to reach this plateau, I can tell you from personal experience that, upon waking on that day, the first thing you feel is a severe leg cramp. It seems to be downhill from there though.
Many thanks y'all. Nice pics BB. And that book you pictured on the far right? I highly recommend it. Second only to the Bible in fact.
Party like it's 1899!
MrBishop
Well-Known Member
Only 40, SnP? Damn....I'd fighure that you were older than that.... it takes years of work to get this crochety
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/southern-states-map.jpg
Nice map - a bit large to hotlink, but still.
It's got a great bunch of magazine articles (original scans) of Civil War Harpers dating back to 1861 here
MrBishop
Well-Known Member
THE WOUNDED SOLDIER.
I'm wounded, Effie, and they say I never can get well;
'Twas in the thickest of the fight that I got hurt and fell.
It seems to me like ages, yet it's but a month to-day
Since you promised that you'd wait for me though I were years away.
Do you remember —oh! how well it all comes back to me!-
Our sitting in the bright moonlight, under the maple-tree;
When first I said I loved you, and then told you we must part,
For not e'en you could keep me, when my country had my heart?
But I knew you did not wish it, as, your little hand in mine,
You did not try to stay me by any word or sign;
But trying to keep back the tears, although a few would fall,
You bade me trust in God, your God, whatever might befall.
But all my bright ambitious hopes forever now are fled,
And the sunlight of to-morrow will fall upon me dead;
There'll be one soldier less to fight, one less on earth to love,
But there'll be another hand to strike the golden harps above.
I have a mother in the skies ; I wonder if she'll know
The little baby that she left so many years ago.
But I'm weary, and I can not think: let this your comfort be,
Your love has been the brightest thing in all the world to me.
W. GOSHEN, Oct. 21, 1861.
I'm wounded, Effie, and they say I never can get well;
'Twas in the thickest of the fight that I got hurt and fell.
It seems to me like ages, yet it's but a month to-day
Since you promised that you'd wait for me though I were years away.
Do you remember —oh! how well it all comes back to me!-
Our sitting in the bright moonlight, under the maple-tree;
When first I said I loved you, and then told you we must part,
For not e'en you could keep me, when my country had my heart?
But I knew you did not wish it, as, your little hand in mine,
You did not try to stay me by any word or sign;
But trying to keep back the tears, although a few would fall,
You bade me trust in God, your God, whatever might befall.
But all my bright ambitious hopes forever now are fled,
And the sunlight of to-morrow will fall upon me dead;
There'll be one soldier less to fight, one less on earth to love,
But there'll be another hand to strike the golden harps above.
I have a mother in the skies ; I wonder if she'll know
The little baby that she left so many years ago.
But I'm weary, and I can not think: let this your comfort be,
Your love has been the brightest thing in all the world to me.
W. GOSHEN, Oct. 21, 1861.
unclehobart
New Member
I woke up with a leg cramp too... but I'm still in the 30s.
Must be the weather. Strong cold fronts makes the bones ache.
Must be the weather. Strong cold fronts makes the bones ache.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
Beautiful.
My personal favorite CSA soldier quote came from a POW. His captors noted his lack of a coat, or even shoes, his frailty and hunger. They asked him if he owned slaves, to which he replied that he did not nor did his family own any.
Q: Then considering all that, why are you fighting?
A: Because you are down here.
'Bout sums it up for me.
BeardofPants
New Member
Happy birfday SNP. 
