ha!
Joan Brooks wrote:
> Mr. Bonis, there is no "fun" in the human pain and loss incurred on all
> sides of the war. One does not tastefully compare the devastation of
> war to
> the minor event of burning a supply train.
>
> Oh, yes, and wasn't Sheridan, at the orders of Grant and Sherman, the
> great
> Indian destroyer? Oh, yes--- just following orders, like in his
> depredations in the Valley.
>
> If you want to poke fun at war, make it something humorous, like
> stealing a
> General's frock coat, or better yet, stealing a General himself.
>
> As to a Jamestown celebration, I doubt 2007 will outdo 1957 which I was
> fortunate to attend, or 1907 for which I wasn't yet present.
>
> Joan Logan Brooks
> a Southside Virginian through 11 proven generations
>
> and a great-granddaughter of a Yankee too cowardly to serve the Union
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Bonis" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Anniversary celebrations in the 21st century
>
>
>> I was just responding with a little humor to Mr. Cabell's remarks who
>> wrote:
>>
>> "I'm hardpressed to think of any GREATEST since (reading of) Col. Mosby
>> welcoing Gen. Sheridan to the northwest corner of
>> Virginia by burning his supply train, north of Berryville."
>>
>> By the way, Gen. Sheridan (*Philip Hendry Shridan*) had a very fine time
>> in Virginia. "Here he contested Gen. Early's Confederate troops,
>> destroyed crops which were the breadbasket of the Confederate army,
>> defeated and killed Gen. J.E.B. Stuart (famous cavalry leader of the
>> south) and eventually, in the battle of Cedar Creek, drove Early out of
>> the valley. As the war neared its end Sheridan was the leader in forcing
>> Gen. Lee out of his Petersburg, Va. defenses and eventually cutting off
>> his retreat at Appomattox Court House." [From
>> www.netpluscom.com/~pchs/sheridan.htm]
>>
>> He was a very effective Yankee General in Virginia. Maybe if he could
>> magically be in charge of promoting Jamestown 2007 celebrations the
>> prospects for its success would be much improved.
>>
>> Ray B. ;-)
>>
>>
>> Joan Brooks wrote:
>>
>>> Mr. Bonis, please make your snide remarks elsewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ray Bonis" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:58 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Anniversary celebrations in the 21st century
>>>
>>>
>>>> Actually, the last GREATEST excitment was when Lee gave up and the
>>>> North
>>>> won. Now that was fun.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ray B.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Randy Cabell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Very well said. Maybe its just my getting older, but I also now
>>>>> really want
>>>>> to look into Virginia and family things within the larger context of
>>>>> what
>>>>> was going on.
>>>>>
>>>>> re the biggest "excitement" and the hope that Jamestowne things will
>>>>> heat up
>>>>> as we approach it, I say Amen. Lets see...... our biggest excitement
>>>>> was...... hmmmmm..... I'm hardpressed to think of any GREATEST since
>>>>> (reading of) Col. Mosby welcoing Gen. Sheridan to the northwest
>>>>> corner of
>>>>> Virginia by burning his supply train, north of Berryville.
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy Cabell
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:34 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Anniversary celebrations in the 21st century
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I attended that conference in 2004 sponsored by the Omohundro
>>>>>> Institute
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> I thought it was interesting mainly because it did put Jamestown
>>>>>> in a
>>>>>> global
>>>>>> context with information on other European nations, West Africa and
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Native
>>>>>> Americans that were here before the arrival of the British.
>>>>>> Jamestown
>>>>>> did
>>>>>> not happen in a vacum, the whole world was on the move and surely to
>>>>>> understand
>>>>>> Jamestown and the world that was created here can be better
>>>>>> understood
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> the backdrop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know but I am going to assume that when we finally get
>>>>>> closer to
>>>>>> 2007
>>>>>> there will be other conferences held in Williamsburg &
>>>>>> Jamestown.......and
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> will be very appeciative if as a " local history buff" I am able to
>>>>>> attend. I
>>>>>> will say that the Jamestown 2007 Steering Committee has their work
>>>>>> cut out
>>>>>> for them because locally the biggest thing to happen in the area in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> last
>>>>>> couple of years is the opening of the Bass Pro Shop off of 64, maybe
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> has now
>>>>>> be surpassed by the BRAC Commissions decision to close Fort
>>>>>> Monroe....let
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Condo building begin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Selma Stewart
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a message dated 2/21/2006 9:23:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>>>>>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What are we "celebrating," exactly? The Omohundro Institute of
>>>>>>> Early
>>>>>>> >American History and Culture sponsored a very DEEP scholarly
>>>>>>> confer-
>>>>>>> >ence in 2004, almost ignoring Jamestown itself by placing it in
>>>>>>> global
>>>>>>> >context with West African tribal traditions circa 1607, etc. The
>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>> >conference on the Jamestown Commemoration website that I saw was
>>>>>>> >focused on modern democracy. Better not go there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>> Ray Bonis
>>>> Virginia Commonwealth University
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