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I don't always have a tale to post but I come across a lot of really good 2, 3, or 4 liners of wit and expression of soldiers I'd like to share. Please add on to this thread.
I'll start: A Yank from Chattanooga reported he was so hungry he, "could eat a rider off his horse and snap at the stirrups."
Rebel George Lemmon in his excitement fired his musket too close to comrade Nick Watkins' head, shooting a hole in his hat. Whereupon Nick turned and said: "George Lemmon, I wish you'd look where you're shooting--I'm not a Yankee."
In 1863 a Pennsylvania private wrote to the homefolks, "We laugh at everything....The roughest jokes I ever heard were perpetrated under a heavy fire."
Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania declared: "If there is one thing that I hate more than another is is the Sight of a Shoulder Strap, For I am well convinced in My own Mind that had it not been for officers this war would have Ended long ago."
Another Yank wrote: "I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them Against A part of those still Left."
I'll start: A Yank from Chattanooga reported he was so hungry he, "could eat a rider off his horse and snap at the stirrups."
Rebel George Lemmon in his excitement fired his musket too close to comrade Nick Watkins' head, shooting a hole in his hat. Whereupon Nick turned and said: "George Lemmon, I wish you'd look where you're shooting--I'm not a Yankee."
In 1863 a Pennsylvania private wrote to the homefolks, "We laugh at everything....The roughest jokes I ever heard were perpetrated under a heavy fire."
Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania declared: "If there is one thing that I hate more than another is is the Sight of a Shoulder Strap, For I am well convinced in My own Mind that had it not been for officers this war would have Ended long ago."
Another Yank wrote: "I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them Against A part of those still Left."