Longstreet Throw your snowballs, men,

[Stiles/Akin]

Winter after the Fredericksburg Campaign. --"Between Longstreet's headquarters and Forest Hill was the winter campsite of the Texas Brigade. Each morning the corps commander passed through under a barrage of snowballs from the playful Texans. He endured the joke "with his usual imperturbability" for several days until one morning when he saw a line of troops with snowballs in hand. Riding up to them, Longstreet exclaimed: "Throw your snowballs, men, if you want to, as much as you please. But if one of them touches me, not a man in this brigade shall get a furlough this winter. Remember that." Longstreet was untouched."

(Note: Longstreet reportedly participated in some of these snow battles too.)

 

[bankerpapaw]

Winter after the Fredericksburg Campaign. --"Between Longstreet's headquarters and Forest Hill was the winter campsite of the Texas Brigade. Each morning the corps commander passed through under a barrage of snowballs from the playful Texans. He endured the joke "with his usual imperturbability" for several days until one morning when he saw a line of troops with snowballs in hand. Riding up to them, Longstreet exclaimed: "Throw your snowballs, men, if you want to, as much as you please. But if one of them touches me, not a man in this brigade shall get a furlough this winter. Remember that." Longstreet was untouched."

(Note: Longstreet reportedly participated in some of these snow battles too.)

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Stick in the mud!! LOL