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I love the way Smith introduces the characters. The death of Lincoln's mother, etc.Thank goodness...someone who's actually read that book! It is good!
I love the way Smith introduces the characters. The death of Lincoln's mother, etc.Thank goodness...someone who's actually read that book! It is good!
Read the book my friend. The movie is good. The book is excellent
Henry Kyd Douglas is the main source for the idea that Jackson was a lemon lover. He wrote an account in his book of Jackson eating a lemon and using it as if it were a baton to give emphasis to his orders during a battle.
Glad to hear that since there are those who don't regard Douglas too highly as a source.Kyd Douglas indeed wrote about that, but there are earlier references from the Mexican War and his West Point years regarding the lemons as well as him trying to balance himself in peculiar ways to "get his humours flowing the right way"...
I remember it, but not all the details.And also included the story about Jackson up the Persimmon tree...which was a result of his climbing for persimmons.
The gifter is always unknown....oh to be a fly on a nearby tree.............
My mum was a huge Poe fan, so she follows the anniversary reports. She was disappointed that the mystery had stopped.
The story Taylor told of Lizinka Campbell-Brown doesn't ring true, either. She had to have been a formidable woman, and I doubt she silently clung to the general's (Ewell's) arm during the entire conversation with Taylor.Dick Taylor is another source of the lemon myth.
https://studycivilwar.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/destruction-and-reconstruction/
The story Taylor told of Lizinka Campbell-Brown doesn't ring true, either. She had to have been a formidable woman, and I doubt she silently clung to the general's (Ewell's) arm during the entire conversation with Taylor.
The story Taylor told of Lizinka Campbell-Brown doesn't ring true, either. She had to have been a formidable woman, and I doubt she silently clung to the general's (Ewell's) arm during the entire conversation with Taylor.
Brilliantly done. The book as the flavor of a historian gone mad.I agree. I thought it was very clever the way he wove the vampire story into Lincoln's actual life story.
Sometimes I even keep my mouth shut while clinging to my husband. Usually so I won't bust a chair over someone's head.