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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Yeah yeah

Stonewall was an odd man....

Yeah, sure most of him is buried in Lexington, but his arm has it's own gravesite in Chancellorsville.

He liked to have cold towels on his stomach at all times.... (the application of which after his amputation is reputed to have given him pneumonia -from which he died)

He also rode into battle holding his arm up to balance the body..... (he believed one of his arms was bigger than the other so held it up to drain the blood back into his body)

Enjoyed sucking on lemons - all the time.

Didn't eat pepper because he believed it weakend his left leg (why left?)

Slept under wet sheets

Was a narcoleptic (not a malady I'd want to have if I was being shot at on a regular basis) and quite possibly ocd (recorded the number of captured hankerchiefs and neckties)

odd...

1 Comments:

Blogger E. Phantzi said...

Wow, I thought only Terry did that wet towel thing.

9:43 AM  

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