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To: CharleyMike who wrote (56067)	10/11/2000 6:45:46 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<Kinda' like the guy who dreamed up the bumper sticker ~ "I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could" >> Ya'll do realize that the citizens of Illinois and Kentucky whopped Santa Anna and made Texas possible. You're welcome.

To: CharleyMike who wrote (56067)	10/11/2000 7:13:30 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

A wonderful book -- Robert E. Lee: The Last Years by CHarles Flood-- I cried so hard during the Appomattox scenes, I woke Dan up. I have always been a Civil War snob, hailing from Lexington, Va., and never considered Tx. REALLY South. (oh, I was so ignorant) On May 6,1864, during the fighting in the Wilderness, soon after sunrise Lee had found himself almost alone, with veteran Confederate regiments streaming past him to the rear, breaking in the face of a powerful Federal assault.... Then out of the drifting battle smoke into which others were retreating, twenty men in nondescript clothes ran forward with muskets at the ready, entering the field at the end of a forced march to reach the front. "Who are you, my boys?" Lee shouted to these scarecrows, as scores more dashed up to form a line of battle. "Texas boys!" they yelled. IN a few more seconds, there were hundreds of them. "Hurrah for Texas!" Lee stood in his stirrups and waved his hat.... He rode to the left of the line and the Texans realized that he intended to lead the counterattack. "Go back, General Lee!" they shouted. "We won't go on unless you go back!" "Texans always move them!" Lee roared, about to spur Traveller right into the enemy. A sergeant grabbed Traveller's reins, holding Lee back. Later, Lee was helping to form an Alabama unit for the counterattack,"Alabama soldiers!" he shouted, his eyes glittering as he pointed in the direction from which he had been tugged, "All I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans." Anyone who is puzzled by Confederate pride and emotion should read this book. Robert E. Lee was a great man, who inspired amazing loyalty and love in his troops.