Pearl Vision
December 7, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Patrick Ottenhoff, my colleague here at New Media Strategies and the relentless slavedriver behind the truth-telling, freedom-loving blog The Electoral Map, uses intra-office e-mail to send this note:
I noticed your shout-out to Pearl Harbor.
In a little bit a Virginia war history, Dec 11 will mark the day when the Union torched Fredericksburg in the winter of 1862. Two days later, they tried to take the heavily fortified heights surrounding the town and were mowed down. One Union officer said that their assaults appeared to melt like snow hitting the ground (Union troops actually chanted “Fredericksburg” during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg when it was the Union who controlled the heights).
The date’s important because on Dec 11, 2007 the voters of Virginia’s 1st District, anchored in Fredericksburg, will elect a new congressman. Right outside of town are symbols of Virginia new and old – Stratford Hall (Robert E. Lee’s birthplace) and Fort A.P. Hill (who was a Confederate general) and Millennial Gov. Mark Warner’s farm on the Northern Neck.
richard said,
December 8, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Where is Gen. Warfield?