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Christian Hecht
 Post subject: Those cattle thieves!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:01 pm 
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The union surely has to guard its supply lines better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsteak_Raid
http://www.wadehamptoncamp.org/hist-bs.html

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We do love a good steak.

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I recommend watching Alvarez Kelly if you get the chance.

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@Blake
We all do, well except the steak.

@mihalik
Yes that is a good one.
And maybe also to recommend with William Holden, "The Horse Soldiers".

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C. Hecht wrote:
@mihalik
Yes that is a good one.
And maybe also to recommend with William Holden, "The Horse Soldiers".


:evil:
Did you just reference a JOHN WAYNE movie by saying "with William Holden"!

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Oh yea that guy also had a role in it. :shock: :mrgreen:

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C. Hecht wrote:
Oh yea that guy also had a role in it. :shock: :mrgreen:


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:mrgreen:

I was about to say only people over the age of... I'd say... 50, would get the Sanford and Son reference there. But the show keeps living on in reruns still!

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Beef steak raid kept us eating for a number of months in Petersburg. Yankee warehouses must have been fully stocked to just shrug off such a loss.

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It would have been grass fed steak to - the best ever

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