[1546] in Humor
Deaths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter Buchanan)
Mon Aug 5 12:29:20 1996
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:59:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Walter Buchanan <buchanan@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
To: abennett@MIT.EDU
Cc: humor@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9608051520.AA11862@sneetch.MIT.EDU>
My favorite, and I may misspell the name since this is from memory, is the
story of the Union general at the Battle of Spotsylvania. He was standing
out in the open near the court house when one of his aids warned him that
he could be shot my a Confederate sharpshooter. General Sledgewick's last
words were, Why they couldn't hit an elephant at that dist...
