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08-23-2012, 06:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2012 06:07 AM by BettyO.)
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RE: Arrest of Atzerodt
(08-22-2012 10:54 PM)Gene C Wrote:(08-22-2012 06:44 PM)L Verge Wrote: Maryland used to be famous for its turtle soup, but once I read the directions as to how to make it, I almost threw up! OMG -- LOVE turtle! Hey, Kate! I think money was what motivated George. He could not have been making that much as a carriage maker; painter. He was like the local guy who nowadays keeps a garage and spray paints cars or works on them for a living.... it may pay well now; but other than Studebaker, I don't think many got rich off of that particular trade.... George was NOT a coward - well; not much of one - especially if he had run the blockade several times as he had claimed. One wonders about this; could it have simply have been bravado? At any rate, George had been supposedly "bragging" that he was going to become "rich." I think a lucrative cash flow was what enticed George to join. I don't really know if he had much of a dedication to the Confederacy such as Powell, Arnold and O'Laughlen had..... "The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley |
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