Ladies and Gents - Fine Officers of the Greatest Army in the World - CSA, and you to bluebellies
I am pleased to announce to you all that we have a Great Irish Leader that will be taking charge of our fine new cadets at VMI. I am honored to have Lt. General Patrick "Pat" Carroll of the famous fighting Carroll's , to be heading up our training center.
I am looking forward to great things from General Carroll and his staff in the days to come. I am sure that the fine ladies of Vicksburg will be having a grand feast when the change of command will take place.
I can not wait to get back there and eat some of that cornbread, collargreens, field peas, beef stew and rice and all the other fine food.
Welcome Sir ...to VMI.
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Willie Tisdale
"The Gray Fox"
General
Chief of Armies - CSA
ACWGC Cabinet Member
"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can may revolutionize and make their own of so many of the territory as they inhabit."
Abraham Lincoln
January 12, 1848.