Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Delirium on July 20, 2005, 07:05:15 PM
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I have to admit, the picked a good line for the intro screen for the newest patch, great to see some Civil War historians making their presence known.
Poor Gen. Sedgewick...
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What's the story?
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Originally posted by SunKing
What's the story?
Union General riding along the line responding to an officer who suggested he take some cover because a Confederate soldier might shoot him, being such a target up on his horse. He responded thus and was promptly shot.
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Here is my favorite quote from a Civil War General:
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror."
-General William Tecumseh Sherman
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The odd part for me was that I have been reading about the
battle/campaign that he was killed in.
His troops called him "Uncle John". They and Gen. Grant took
the news of his death very hard.
Mike Callahan
aka BTMe62
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I don't think he was on a horse at the time. He was kidding some
of his men about ducking when the rebs would shoot at them,
the rebs being too far away for a aimed shot. The guess is that
a sharpshooter at about 800 yards with a scoped rifle got him.
"they could'nt hit an elephant at this dist........" he never finished
the sentance.
Mike
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I was describing the scene from a decade old memory, so he may very well not have been on a horse and just trying to buck up the courage of his men.
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The Death of General John Sedgwick (http://www.civilwarhome.com/sedgwickdeath.htm)
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No critisim intended karnak, and you are right, that just what he
was trying to do.
Thanks for the link toad, I thought it was at Spottsylvania but
was'nt sure.
Mike
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am i the only one completely lost?
what does a civil war dude have to do with AH?
what is this thread about?
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Originally posted by Mustaine
am i the only one completely lost?
what does a civil war dude have to do with AH?
what is this thread about?
Take a look at the first screen you get at the bottom of the clipboard, on the credits page sort of.
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Originally posted by Mustaine
am i the only one completely lost?
what does a civil war dude have to do with AH?
what is this thread about?
:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by fuze
Take a look at the first screen you get at the bottom of the clipboard, on the credits page sort of.
like where HT put "i feel pretty" ?
if so thanks.
what's the sarcastic rolleye thing stang?
i never look at that junk, and use eskimo's splash screen, so if i missed some tiny little thing whoop-dee-doo. i was just asking :p
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Next one should be:
"I thought he was talking about our mess bills"
S/L Brian Lane, 19 Squadron Spitfire pilot, responding to Winston Churchill's famous line about "so much being owed by so many to so few." :)
Dan/CorkyJr
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Originally posted by Mustaine
like where HT put "i feel pretty" ?
if so thanks.
what's the sarcastic rolleye thing stang?
i never look at that junk, and use eskimo's splash screen, so if i missed some tiny little thing whoop-dee-doo. i was just asking :p
You'll still see the menu and the quote even if you change the splashscreen. The quotes are a fun part of the patches.
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Good one Dan.