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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

That's a question as old as Clement Vallandingham

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

For more on this awesome story, here's the source. www.sewickleyhistory-org.sewickleyvalleyhistory.org/index.php/hi...

And here's Captain Dave.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

In 1924, the local American Legion post of WWI vets invited him for his 80th birthday Invited to speak, he harangued them for not being real soldiers because modern war was for wimps - evidence that older generations always call the next gen weak The WWI vets gave him a standing ovation

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

The aide who had commissioned the painting was 19yo Capt. David Shields of Sewickley, PA, who later commissioned the painting. He was wounded in 1864 at the age of 20, around the same time Hays was killed. Shields recovered and returned home, living to the age of 93

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:09 UTC

Hays' aides followed his lead, as depicted in the 1910 painting above. In one account, Hays tied a reb flag to his horse's tail, as well. Every regiment in his division noted this ride, as Hays was cheered by his men and fired at by angry Secesh. Who missed.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

Right about now, in 1863, came one of my favorite moments of the Battle of Gettysburg. Division commander Maj Gen Alex Hays, of Pittsburgh, seeing that his division had smashed the rebel attack, kissed his aide-de-camp, grabbed a reb flag, mounted his horse, and rode his line dragging it behind him

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:37 UTC

Heritage not hate tho, right? My Buckeye heritage is the 8th Ohio firing into the flank of Pettigrew and Trimble's Secesh divisions and making them runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

"I believe that not one above whom it then waved but blessed his God that he was loyal to it, & whose heart did not swell with pride towards it as the emblem of the Republic before that treason's flaunting rag in front." - Maj Frank Haskell - watching Lee's Whoopsie begin

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

We can have this moment at two o'clock on July 3. "But along the lines in front the grand old ensign that first waved at Saratoga in 1777, & which these people coming would rob of half its stars, stood up, and the west wind kissed it as the sergeants sloped its lance towards the enemy."

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:32 UTC

William Faulkner - who lied about his World War I service - can keep his "For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863" moment on July 3, 1863. For Northern kids...

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

It's also amazing that he filmed these two movies at the same time

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:50 UTC

Ends the day with 3 divisions scratched and his favorite horsey boi sent running back to cry to Daddy Lee by some kid from Ohio leading a bunch of Michiganders

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:48 UTC

Happy "Robert E Lee Yeets 3 Treason Divisions Into a Deathblossom" Day to all who celebrate Lee's July 3d might be one of his worst days of fighting. Starts off the day with the XII Corps kicking his teeth in on the right flank, booting his bubbas out of US trenches they'd taken the night prior

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:45 UTC

Good gawd

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

However, if you're referring to tactical innovation, then you're spot on. At the regimental level and below, units innovated and experimented with different ways to maximize equipment and tactical effects. Some worked, some didn't, but lots got passed up and around as lessons learned

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:46 UTC

Please cite a reliable scholarly source, because this has long been proven to be a myth. During WWII, tactical doctrine was fire and maneuver to find, fix, and destroy an enemy. Which is what divisions and corps did, while Army groups worked to cut off retreating Nazi formations.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

They don't, actually. Schools are very selective about the information they give recruiters. Many don't allow them in at all. Recruiting policy and regulations are pretty clear on what is and isn't allowed to be shared

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

Anyways here's this banger

Gonna go to work and try to be a better person because of guys like Strong Vincent and Joshua Chamberlain

open.spotify.com/track/2lHrKW...

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

Yeah, been in mine, too

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:11 UTC

When I think about what was sacrificed on this day in 1863 for this Republic, and what meaning Lincoln gave it... Government of the people By the people And for the people And then I read the news. Sigh.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:05 UTC

Feels like a day to just stare at founding documents and national monuments. But no, emails. Teams. Outlook.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

The soul of the Republic feels very heavy today

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