Me teaching class Antietam!

[Hancock the Superb]

Then you bungle the attack and start hiccuping!:(

[ironsight]

Whats all this talk of soda pop and fighting battles?:laugh:
Nothing like a good stiff drink before charging those batteries!!
Worked for General Grant!:cheer:

[Armchair General]

ironsight wrote:

Whats all this talk of soda pop and fighting battles?:laugh:
Nothing like a good stiff drink before charging those batteries!!
Worked for General Grant!:cheer:

Don't forget the thick, strong, cigar.

[2nd Kentucky]

Armchair General wrote:

ironsight wrote:

Whats all this talk of soda pop and fighting battles?:laugh:
Nothing like a good stiff drink before charging those batteries!!
Worked for General Grant!:cheer:

Don't forget the thick, strong, cigar.

Or two, or three, does anyone know how many cigars he smoked in a day!:huh:

[Ephrum]

2nd Kentucky wrote:

Armchair General wrote:

ironsight wrote:

Whats all this talk of soda pop and fighting battles?:laugh:
Nothing like a good stiff drink before charging those batteries!!
Worked for General Grant!:cheer:

Don't forget the thick, strong, cigar.

Or two, or three, does anyone know how many cigars he smoked in a day!:huh:

I just got done reading Gordon C. Rhea's "The Battle of the Wilderness." In it, one of Grants staff wrote that Grant smoked twenty cigars in the course of the day, on May 6th. But there was no comment on how many he averaged on a daily basis. Probably a lot!!

[Armchair General]

And no wonder he died from Lung Cancer!

[2nd Kentucky]

Armchair General wrote:

And no wonder he died from Lung Cancer!

I thought he died from throat cancer.:huh:

[Ephrum]

It was throat cancer. But when you get right down to it, either way, the cigars killed him.

[Hancock the Superb]

And the fact that SOMEONE didn't help him (damn Huck Finn.)

[Armchair General]

Hancock the Superb wrote:

And the fact that SOMEONE didn't help him (damn Huck Finn.)

Excuse me for missing the jist of your message, but what the hell does Mark Twain have to do with Grant smoking so many cigars? And considering Huck Finn didn't even exist during the Civil War.....