danny
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Hattiesburg
Oh my, so much wiggling and squirming and babble. Ole Forrest is still getting your goat.
Forrest was where he was in 64-65 because Sherman was determined to keep him off his supply lines and out of the Atlanta campaign. A glance at the resources he committed to this end will clearly demonstrate Sherman's concern.
So you guys have gone to great lengths to dismiss Forrest's military skill without recognizing the immense worth placed on him by one of your heroes.
It should also be mentioned that the men riding with Forrest were, to a large degree, natives of his area of operations. Many were deserters that had come home for the same reason that Forrest went to Pillow. Not to capture a militarily insignificant post, but to punish the **** heathens rampaging through their homeland. Their services were lost for the cause without Forrest rounding them up and making soldiers out of them--again.
Your arguments are like the old cowboy that George Bush referred to as "all hat and no cattle".
Forrest was where he was in 64-65 because Sherman was determined to keep him off his supply lines and out of the Atlanta campaign. A glance at the resources he committed to this end will clearly demonstrate Sherman's concern.
So you guys have gone to great lengths to dismiss Forrest's military skill without recognizing the immense worth placed on him by one of your heroes.
It should also be mentioned that the men riding with Forrest were, to a large degree, natives of his area of operations. Many were deserters that had come home for the same reason that Forrest went to Pillow. Not to capture a militarily insignificant post, but to punish the **** heathens rampaging through their homeland. Their services were lost for the cause without Forrest rounding them up and making soldiers out of them--again.
Your arguments are like the old cowboy that George Bush referred to as "all hat and no cattle".