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JEFFERSON DAVIS' LAST TRAIN RIDE ARE SQUIRRELS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CIVIL WAR? |
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JEFFERSON DAVIS' LAST TRAIN RIDE ARE SQUIRRELS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CIVIL WAR? |
From: "Jeff Cokenour"
To: "Gregg Elovich" scarysquirrel@pinkpig.com
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:51:20 -0500
I couldn't believe my eyes. There I was reading a copy of Sherman's March by Burke Davis. I was reading a chapter entitled "I can whip Joe Johnston." It details Sherman's march to Raleigh, N.C., the defeat and subsequent surrender of Joe Johnston's army, and learning of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. I was reading a paragraph that described Confederate President Jefferson Davis' train entourage as he, and what remained of his cabinet boarded a train to escape capture by the North. Listed among the occupants of this train were, among others a woman, bearing "a cage full of tame squirrels."
Why would a member of Jefferson Davis' entourage remember to bring squirrels on what was thought to be the last opportunity for escape from certain death? Why didn't Jefferson Davis agree to accompany Joe Johnston to see Sherman and ask for the acceptance of the surrender of his army, as Lee had done in Virginia? Who advised him that this was a bad idea? Who was providing the "intelligence" that led Jefferson Davis to continually call for the conscription of more troops because his army was winning, even after the confederate capital had been sacked and burned? Why were coonskin caps worn by Kentucky and Texas troops, when squirrels were much more plentiful, easier to catch, and tastier? After the sacking of Atlanta by Sherman, why were the women and children starving when squirrels must have been plentiful in the trees around the city?
This may be worth some investigation.
Patriot Jeff's research leads ssw to believe that squirrels may have been responsible for the Civil War. His observation that coon skin caps were worn by soldiers on both sides of the conflict indicates that the bushytail conspiracy extended beyond Sherman's scorched earth campaign. Was this the aboreal rodents attempt to destroy the American experiment and pave the way for squirrel world domination before the turn of the century?
