diane
that gal
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Davis also exhorted the people to grab their pitchforks out of the hay stack and use them on the Yankees, and so did some of his generals - like Beauregard. He wanted to give them the illusion that things were not near as bad as it looked, just a little more push, hang in there.... That's what Sherman wanted to shatter. He wanted the people to know there was no survival value in supporting the Confederacy any longer. If he could walk up onto your front porch and toss a lit cigar into your living room, somebody was fibbing to you!