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Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.
A Mississippi soldier wrote: `` our General Reub Davis is a vain, stuck-up, illiterate ass ''.
An Alabamian wrote: `` Col. Henry is ( an ignoramus ) fit for nothing higher than the cultivation of corn ''.
A Floridian stated that his officers were `` not fit to tote guts to a bear ''.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
His head cannot contain enough sense to command a regiment, much less a corps.
Jackson runs first and his Cavalry are well drilled to follow their leader.
He is not worth shucks.
But he is a West Point graduate and therefore must be born to command ''.
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