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Date Posted: 03/27/04 10:04:28pm
Author: Doug Cooper
Subject: bump
In reply to: Doug Cooper 's message, "Commanders Intent and Event goals" on 03/27/04 9:47:32pm

anybody know how to stick a post at the top of the forum?

>Boys I want to lay out my intentions as your company
>commander and reiterate some goals of our Battalion
>Commander.
>
>Major Aufmuth extends his compliments and
>congratulations on your enthusiasm, hard work and fund
>raising these last few months as you prepare to take
>the field. His desire is that you pass through the
>coming event in safety and health and grow in your
>appreciation of our special role as historians who
>keep the past alive through our best efforts.
>
>As your company commander, my mission is to lead you
>through the event safely and with a greater sense of
>what it meant to be a soldier of the Trans-Mississippi
>in April of 1864. We will be a functioning
>Confederate Army infantry company with as much
>fidelity to the real thing as we can manage without
>compromising rule one: safety.
>
>I expect you to conduct yourselves as befits American
>soldiers of the Victorian age with a particular slant
>toward the rough and ready nature of Texans. Courage
>and fortitude is your creed. You are soldiers but
>also citizens. Remember your loved ones and their
>sacrifice.
>
>Remember that they had already seen quite enough after
>2 years of war and would have been veterans with a
>keen sense of priorities that would be (in no
>particular order):
>
>1. Discipline wins battles
>2. Trust in one another
>3. Loyalty to our homes, our state and our regiment
>4. Respect for the good citizens of Louisiana and
>their property
>5. Fierce as lions in battle, kind to the fallen foe
>
>
>Obey your officers, follow your flag, trust in your
>cause.
>
>Victory or death, no other result but independence!
>
>It is my great honor and priviledge to be associated
>with such an august company of gentleman. I look
>foward to joining you in the field.
>
>All for Texas,
>
>Capt Marcus D. Herring, Commanding Co B, 15th Texas,
>the Limestone County Invincibles

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