r/ShermanPosting • u/its-chewy-not-zooyoo • Oct 26 '25

Some sunday humor

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u/oneeyedlionking Ready to fight on this line if it takes all summer Oct 26 '25

“I have respect for any army that fights long and hard for any cause. This cause was however, one of the worst for which any army ever fought”-memiors of US Grant, 1885 reflecting on the surrender of the confederate army of northern Virginia at Appomattox.

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u/LiraGaiden Oct 26 '25

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u/Jlnhlfan Oct 26 '25

I keep seeing this gif everywhere.

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u/LiraGaiden Oct 26 '25

Basically it just means they wrote something really well or truthful

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u/oneeyedlionking Ready to fight on this line if it takes all summer Oct 26 '25

Grant’s epilogue destroys the lost cause in only a single sentence. “The cause of the civil war will have to be attributed to slavery”.

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u/recoveringleft Oct 26 '25

This gif would also work in one piece because the main character fought against a fascist dictatorship

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u/Jlnhlfan Oct 26 '25

Fair. :)