Duds

[chilidog]

I thought that I would start a new thread on bad generals so we can group them together and see who takes the cake. I'll start it with General William Dwight at the siege of Port Hudson. Gen. Banks launched a failed assault on the Confederate works on June 14th. Ya'll know how hot it is down here in June.

Taken from "The Guns of Port Hudson" vol.2 by David C. Edmonds. One officer, some of whose friends and neighbors lay dying before the Rebel guns, begged General Dwight to raise the white flag, claiming to have information that the Confederates were willing to permit the wounded to be moved. "No sir; it's all a strategem of the enemy to get the dead carcasses carried away from before their works," answered Dwight. "They know that they will be stunk out if the bodies rot there....No sir; I'll stink the Rebels out of the Citadel with the dead bodies of those d***ed volunteers if I cannot make the cowards take it by storm."

What a guy!


chilidog