I think that we have all drank too much Jack Daniels and we need to sleep it off. All in good fun!
The biggest crime here is that Drex has had me puzzled by his statement about paratroopers earlier in this thread. Honestly, in every idle moment I had today it was spent thinking of Yankee paratroopers using a thousand hot air balloons to drop behind Confederate lines. I then began to ponder how many Yankees could fit in a hot air balloon. I concluded that, based on Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island, five Yankees could occupy each hot air balloon basket. Using a thousand ballons with five men in each Grant could have captured Richmond in a daring early morning airdrop of a veteran division. Although, given the risk involved undoubtedly a Colored Division would have been chosen for the task. My mind continued to wrap around the thought of thousands of black troops "dropping from the sky" on the unsuspecting populace of Richmond as they went to Church some Sunday morning. How has Hollywood not thought of this yet?
A good portion of my day wasted to such bizarre thoughts!
