30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.
Happy New Year!
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In case I am too drunk to post this later (and I am well on my way to being completely ripped…)
Happy New Year to one and all!
May 2008 bring your dreams to reality and be better for you than all the years before!
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Yeah, to new beginnings! Happy New Year!
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Woo Hoo!! :mrgreen: A chance to start all over again! I feel sorry for the guys that have to clean the mess up in times square :lol: all that grafitie!
What did all of you guys do? We just ate some snacks and at 12:00 we lit off some fireworks. This just pisses me off, did anyone else have the air filled with gunfire at night? Here it went on for like 10 min. after midnight…aparently people don’t understand that what goes up, must come back down.
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Gunfire here. Then again I live in Oakland. :mrgreen:
Anyway, it was an awesome time. Happy New Year everyone.
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Happy New Year’s all!
GG