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Frolics & Detours

A digital commonplace book, plus the occasional photograph of Virgil the basset hound.

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  • Our Jeb Stuart is never tired. You could wake him with a message any time of night and he’s awake on the instant. He’s such a bull. They called him “Beauty” at West Point. We’re fighting and killing all his old classmates and even his father-in-law, General Philip St. George Cooke. Jeb wrote about this man once when he failed to join the Confederacy: “He will regret it but once, and that will be continuously.

    Barry Hannah, “Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed”

    Posted on May 16, 2010

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