Tag: General Pickett

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    Fort Pickett

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    An uncertain spokesman once said to George Pickett that the “Old Man” (Robert E. Lee) gave him immortality. That rather dubious “gift” came by way of having his name associated with a battlefield calamity at Gettysburg that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge.

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Bob Teevan
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The concept of temperance may be defined as life without alcohol or abstinence from alcoholic drink. The first vestiges of “temperance” appeared in the early 19th century when the average American was drinking seven gallons of alcohol each year. Temperance enthusiasts said that drinking led to violence. They were right, but temperance as a social experiment failed. Miserably!

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