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Old 12-12-2006, 11:11 PM
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Default West Point Nicknames for CW Officers
R. E. Lee - Marble Model

U. S. Grant - Sam

Longstreet - Dutch or Pete (?)

Sherman - Cump (did this come from West Point?)

George H. Thomas - Slow Trot Thomas (really, not for his deliberate preparations at Nashville, tho that name may have lurked in Grant's subconscious) or Ols Slow Trot

Thomas Jackson - Old Jack

Rosecrans - Rosie

John Pelham - Sallie

WS Hancock - Win

Lewis Armistead - Lo

John Bell Hood - (another) Sam


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Old 12-13-2006, 12:48 AM
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"Cump" was the name Sherman's family called him, from his "middle" name Tecumseh.

Cump's only name was Tecumseh until he was about 9, when he was adopted by the Ewings. Not only had he never been baptized (horrors!!) but he didn't have a proper Christian name. The priest who baptized him named him William.

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George A. Custer - Cinnamon (for the scent of his hair oil), Curly (for the nature of his hair), Fanny (? - tho he was allegedly later nicknamed by his hard ridden troops as "Iron Butt")

C. M. Wilcox - Old Billy Fixing

Richard S. Ewell - Old Baldy

Jubal Early - Old Jubilee

Lafayette McLaws - General Make Laws

Henry H. Walker - Mud

Samuel Sprig Carroll - Old Brick Top

George Sykes - Tardy George

William ferrar Smith - Baldy
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Ancestors in CSA Army: 2nd TN Inf (Walker's), 9th TN Cav (Bennett's/Ward's); 2nd TX Inf
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