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Who was the Wars Dirtiest Rotten Scoundrel of them all?


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We've been having a lot of fun discussing the wars most rotten participants. Let's see, who comes to mind?

Dan Sickles
Jubal Early
Nathen Bedford Forrest
Judson Kilpatrick
Phillip Sheridan
Braxton Bragg

Let's disscuss it, who belongs on the list? Who doesn't? Expound upon the existing list! What ever you want to do.

I can think of a few others whom I consider borderline. I'm sure there are many I've missed. Let's discuss the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" of the war. Either side, doesn't matter.
 
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We've been having a lot of fun discussing the wars most rotten participants. Let's see, who comes to mind?

Dan Sickles
Jubal Early
Nathen Bedford Forrest
Judson Kilpatrick
Phillip Sheridan
Braxton Bragg

Let's disscuss it, who belongs on the list? Who doesn't? Expound upon the existing list! What ever you want to do.

I can think of a few others whom I consider borderline. I'm sure there are many I've missed. Let's discuss the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" of the war. Either side, doesn't matter.
The Confederate Home Guards who beat and shot women in North Carolina to get them to reveal their conscript evading men folk.
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Esther Frogg knew well the 20-year-old man standing at her front door on November 1, 1861, asking to see her husband, William. The visitor’s name was Champ Ferguson, and he was, like the Froggs, a native of Clinton County, Kentucky. Unlike the Froggs, however, Ferguson supported the Confederacy.

‘How do you do,’ she said and offered him a seat.

‘I don’t have time,’ he replied.

‘Have some apples,’ she said, gesturing toward the fruit she had just been peeling.

‘I have been eating apples,’ he said.

Ferguson did not want to sit. He did not want to eat. He did not want to talk. He wanted only to see William Frogg.

Esther told Ferguson her husband was sick and could not take visitors. But Ferguson was not to be deterred. He walked inside the house, leaving the two men who had come with him outside.

Ferguson approached Frogg’s bed, perhaps noticing the crib nearby where the couple’s five-month-old baby lay. Frogg told his visitor he had the measles. Indeed, he was on sick leave from his regiment, the 12th Kentucky Infantry (Union), though he no doubt withheld that bit of information from Ferguson.


‘I reckon you caught the measles at Camp Dick Robinson,’ Ferguson said. Camp Robinson was a sore point for Kentuckians who sided with the Confederacy. They believed that men recruited there into the Home Guard went on to fight for the Union.

Ferguson was through talking. He shot Frogg dead where he lay.

-Source http://www.historynet.com/champ-ferguson-an-american-civil-war-rebel-guerrilla.htm

I recall reading that his actions appalled the Confederate leadership so much they rescinded their support that had been granted under the Partisan Ranger Act.
 
Esther Frogg knew well the 20-year-old man standing at her front door on November 1, 1861, asking to see her husband, William. The visitor’s name was Champ Ferguson, and he was, like the Froggs, a native of Clinton County, Kentucky. Unlike the Froggs, however, Ferguson supported the Confederacy.

‘How do you do,’ she said and offered him a seat.

‘I don’t have time,’ he replied.

‘Have some apples,’ she said, gesturing toward the fruit she had just been peeling.

‘I have been eating apples,’ he said.

Ferguson did not want to sit. He did not want to eat. He did not want to talk. He wanted only to see William Frogg.

Esther told Ferguson her husband was sick and could not take visitors. But Ferguson was not to be deterred. He walked inside the house, leaving the two men who had come with him outside.

Ferguson approached Frogg’s bed, perhaps noticing the crib nearby where the couple’s five-month-old baby lay. Frogg told his visitor he had the measles. Indeed, he was on sick leave from his regiment, the 12th Kentucky Infantry (Union), though he no doubt withheld that bit of information from Ferguson.


‘I reckon you caught the measles at Camp Dick Robinson,’ Ferguson said. Camp Robinson was a sore point for Kentuckians who sided with the Confederacy. They believed that men recruited there into the Home Guard went on to fight for the Union.

Ferguson was through talking. He shot Frogg dead where he lay.

-Source http://www.historynet.com/champ-ferguson-an-american-civil-war-rebel-guerrilla.htm

I recall reading that his actions appalled the Confederate leadership so much they rescinded their support that had been granted under the Partisan Ranger Act.
Okay, Ferguson belongs on the list. If this account is true, he's a rotten Scoundrel.
 
Lol, Really Horsey! I'm gonna give you a nickname soon young lady. :banghead:

I can tell you the ones I have already, but most of them are not gonna pass muster with the Mods, however, "Queen" works nicely, too.
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