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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 9, 2007 19:46:53 GMT -6
Cymru am Byth. That's another thing that will link us always!
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 11, 2007 12:02:18 GMT -6
Goddess, you are quite something! I love yer! You are a true daughter of Owen Glendower and a link I'll always be prepared to follow.
HH
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 11, 2007 12:13:08 GMT -6
Trish, the Custer letters in the Merrington book 'The Custer Story' are actually very revealing concerning the original purpose of this thread. His fervent references to religious belief come only during the last six months of the CW, when I believe he, like everyone else realised the war was coming to an end and wondered if he would continue being lucky and live to see it. In those circumstances it appears he hedged his bets by paying lip service to a faith in the hope that the Almighty would buttress Custer's Luck. His last reference to God in his letters to Libbie appears in a letter of June 8th 1867 and then only in the same kind of way we are all inclined to use.
Hunk
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Post by Tricia on Oct 11, 2007 13:28:07 GMT -6
Thanks, Hunk ...
And there can be another reason behind this last-minute devotion during the ACW: the actions of a newlywed who is still willing to do anything to please the wife (who takes up Lydia Ann's cause to Godly Devotion). By 1867, a hard reality had set in with GAC; chasing an enemy all about nowhere ... in relative anonymity. It would tend to shake one's beliefs to the core.
--t.
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 11, 2007 14:16:55 GMT -6
You have a point there Trish, but for me it doesn't quite mesh with a roughly six-month religious fervour. A man's efforts to gain approbation on any matter from his new bride tends to last quite a bit longer than six months. No, its as if surviving the CW meant he no longer felt the need for any Divine intervention and his letters to Libbie are a very good barometer for revealing that demarcation point.
Hunk
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Post by elisabeth on Oct 12, 2007 5:09:43 GMT -6
Hunk and Trish, good points both.
Of course, if there is any truth to the the "anonymous letter" story ... the summer of 1867 could also mark the point where Libbie loses the moral ascendancy. If she's made a mis-step, however minor, he mightn't feel he has to defer to her notions of piety quite as much as he did before.
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 12, 2007 6:44:58 GMT -6
So Elisabeth, it looks as if in the first years after the CW, our Bo no longer needed God and Standby also lost her Goddess tag. It could never happen to Diane and I should know, she told me so herself.
Hunk
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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 12, 2007 10:19:42 GMT -6
Goddess am Byth!
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 12, 2007 14:29:02 GMT -6
All hail O Mighty One.
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