today's trivia
General Bernard Bee would have been a minor footnote to history had it not been for his brief association with another more famous general. Who was his more famous colleague?
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And now I'm getting ads for the grand opening of Stonewall Harley Davidson.
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E
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1y
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1y
have heard of him either.
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1y
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Straight A reader of history. Not so much in the classroom, haha.
300 pages left in Shelby Foote Part 3. Shew...the entire series has taken me years.
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Thomas J. Jackson
And Bee got killed just a few minutes after his famous line.
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1y
I thought this would be a great question for Chris!
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Bee’s North Carolina brigade was being routed at the first Battle of Manassas. Thomas Jonathan Jackson’s Virginians were next to Bee’s troops and faring much better. In an attempt to rally his troops, Bee shouted, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!” Bee died the next day from a stomach wound. There is some controversy about whether Bee was complimenting Jackson or complaining about Jackson. Most historians believe Bee’s comment to have been a compliment.
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1y
Virginia troops always retreated. That’s the story whenever I get the “privilege” of visiting Raleigh or chapel hill.
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So the next line COULD have been "He needs to get his ass over here and
help us!!"
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No idea if I ever heard of him before or not lol
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I think that most of us have heard of Benedict Arnold.
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Arguably the greatest battlefield leader in American history.
If that musket ball at Saratoga had gone through his heart instead of his knee, he'd be in the top level of American heroes, no question.
Also literally built a fleet out of the forest to hold off the British fleet on Lake Champlain in 1776, which postponed their invasion by a year, leading to Saratoga. So he was sort of an admiral and a general. Absolutely elite when it comes to on-field leadership, initiative, thinking outside the box, and bravery.
Unfortunately he was as vain as he was talented, and struggled to get along with people, and didn't take so kindly to others getting promoted over him. Probably another thing that led to his flip is something that doesn't get discussed often. His wife was half his age, apparently was smoking hot, and came from a Loyalist family, so I'm guessing some pillowtalk persuasion was involved.
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Looks like someone took that image and tried to make it more...um..."modern"...
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