>From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: RE: NANFA-- just 25 days away
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:28:05 -0400
>
>Sherman got worse press than he really deserves. I say that even though his
>army burned down my grandmother's hometown of Meridian, Miss., as the
>famous
>March to the Sea began (he only spared the house he had commandered for the
>winter; too bad for my great-great-grandparents). Sheridan, on the other
>hand--there's a guy who truly had a mean streak in him! Sherman saw a
>strategic necessity while Sheridan saw a way to act as the avenging angel
>or
>sumthin'.
>
>But Jay, I don't know your statue-battle death question. Sheridan certainly
>didn't die in battle (ask the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho...).
>
>This is all dangerously off-topic. So maybe we can rename some _Notropis_
>species, the Sherman Shiner?
>
>--Bruce Stallsmith
>Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
>> > >(birth place of General William T. Sherman!)
>> >
>> > Boo! Hiss!! :)
>>
>>No one being burned alive agrees that all is fair in war :-) Much of the
>>North just like the South is proud of its war heroes. Columbus named its
>>hocky team the Blue Jackets, and even though the mascot is a hornet, the
>>name came from its Civil War history.
>>
>>Not too far away from Lancaster is a statue of General Sheridan in the
>>town
>>of Somerset. When I was a kid we would drive from Pittsburgh to southern
>>Ohio once or twice a year and we would always go through Sheridan. His
>>statue was of him on a horse, but I don't remember if none, one or two of
>>the horse's feet were off the ground. So I don't know if he died from
>>battle. You guys know the statue-battle death connection I'm referring
>>to?
>>If it's true it's neat.
>>
>>--
>>Jay DeLong
>>Olympia, WA
>>"It is horrifying that we have to fight
>>our own government to save the environment."
>>~Ansel Adams
>
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