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“Break Glass in Emergency”. I feel better now that my emergency cash is behind glass.

This belonged to a relative who passed a few years ago. His sister gave it to me today. This one is real, poor print quality by the standards of the time. I do know that counterfeiters in the south were often captured because their work was too good.

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I got these today also. I wonder if I could sell them at a blm rally? :rolleyes: For those who may not know... Left - Stonewall Jackson, Right - Robert E Lee

My relative was big in to collecting anything from the civil war. Personally I enjoy going to civil war battle fields and studying them from a military tactical standpoint. (it's not like I can go visit ww1/2 battlefields)

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Wow what gifts Peanut. That is tremendous.

I too enjoy Civil War reading and visiting battlefields. We took a vacation running the Blue Ridge Parkway one year with our pop up camper. Had a great time and our first and longest stop was in Luray Va. While there we took a day and hit up the local area because I knew Stonewall Jackson ran quite a campain against the union troops in central Va. and wanted to see the landscape they fought over. He marched his troops around Massenuten mountain and that area to hit the union in a surprise attack. The pace they made on foot and going straight into battle when they arrived is very impressive. We also stopped at the displays at the battlefield at New Market Va where he taught school at before the war at the Virginia Military Institute.
We had a great time on that trip and Luray was our favorite part.
 
Yes but the democrats still want your votes, after taking everything you have and taxing us all to the poor house.
People, individuals, are finally waking to the realization that the democrats need the downtrodden so they keep you down so you will vote for them. They make all kinds of promises but offer no way out. I'm not a republican and will likely never be one unless the republicans become Libertarians but I know that Trump has provided the means to personal freedom and the way out.
My biggest worry is that with the success that Trump will provide over the next four years people will forget how bad the democrats are. 2024 is just around the corner and it will not be Trump running. Somebody has to find a candidate that will always put Americans first.
 
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Wow what gifts Peanut. That is tremendous. I too enjoy Civil War reading and visiting battlefields.
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I own 3 books on military tactics. All 3 are required reading at almost every military academy in the world. The one I prize most is “The Campaigns of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and of Forrest’s Cavalry”.

There isn’t a political word in the book. It examines every battle he was in or commanded of which there were 100’s. He was the only man to rise from private to 5 star general in the war, a brilliant military mind.

I moved to Manchester TN from CA, picked it off a road map. I found myself in the middle of a continuous battle ground of the civil war. Some of the small communities near me changed hands a dozen times in the war . Every little country road I drove down were dotted with Civil War cemeteries.

The book on Forrest’s campaigns has chapters dedicated to this area of TN. I found the book in a “old fashioned” book store in Nashville. It had tall ladders that ran on rails in the floor and ceiling. The book is a gold mine of information on battles, 704 pages of tiny print.

Every chance I got for 2 years I’d take this book and walk the ground of his battles in the area, Winchester, Tullahoma, Wartrace, Murfreesboro and dozens of other communities to numerous to name. Basically both sides of I-24 from Nashville to Chattanooga is a continuous battle ground. Forrest fought over this ground for a couple of years.

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@Bacpacker Sort of neat... I knew the history of the area where I live. What is now my driveway was once the only road between 2 large towns in this part of the state (1860's). What I learned from Forrest's book was that in the last weeks of the war a detachment of his cavalry traveled this road. They were ghosting a union command on the other side of a major river. So, 25ft from where I type tonight Forrest's cavalry traveled.

@phideaux I think someone is trying to waggle U out of your money...
 
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