• Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    8 days ago

    You missed the dunk though, his owner went broke and smalls went out of his way to support his masters wife but not his master.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    8 days ago

    Yo, this guy deserves a federal holiday. I’m sure the current administration would love to have a day to celebrate a famous Republican veteran who had to make his own bootstraps before he could even pull himself up by them…

    • Trabic@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      I acknowledge your snark, but he had a fort until the '40s, one of the largest ships in the Army, and now the cruiser formerly known as Chancellorsville. Seems about right.

  • Revered_Beard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    I’m an audio editor / producer for a family-friendly radio drama program, and we made a story on his life a few years ago. The dude really was awesome, it was one of my favorite stories to work on.

    It’s not free to listen to (unless you happen to catch it on the radio when that episode happens to be airing), but you can listen to a 30-second snippet here. (It’s the first story on the album, “From Slave to Hero”.)

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    How many points did that combo get him? He has to be on the leaderboard somewhere under RS or RBS, I’ll go check…

  • slingstone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    I’m from South Carolina, and I worked with one of his proud descendents. It’s a wonder they never made a movie about him.