connecticut yankee
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2017
General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, CSA
"But, my friends, I do not appear before you to-night to make a speech, and for several reasons -- first, It is a time for action, not speaking; and secondly, my throat has been been left in such a condition by recent illness, that the only way in which I can speak now is through the mouths of my cannon." [New York Times, November 19, 1862, page 2.]
p.s. Some newspaper reports suggest his bad throat was the result of typhoid fever, but the type of "recent illness" Beauregard suffered is largely inconclusive.
"But, my friends, I do not appear before you to-night to make a speech, and for several reasons -- first, It is a time for action, not speaking; and secondly, my throat has been been left in such a condition by recent illness, that the only way in which I can speak now is through the mouths of my cannon." [New York Times, November 19, 1862, page 2.]
p.s. Some newspaper reports suggest his bad throat was the result of typhoid fever, but the type of "recent illness" Beauregard suffered is largely inconclusive.