22 December 2008

Civil War quote for the day

On 22 December 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton."
Rico says that would require a lot of wrapping paper and a hell of a big bow...

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