#george henry thomas

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One day at the Calculus class...

(aka. Ohioan hick remembers that there's a sovereign country named Georgia LMAO 💀🔥)

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If your friend doesn’t name their horse after you, they ain’t a real one.

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The Terror Textposts

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/gallusrostromegalus/183333162103/an-incomplete-list-of-the-animals-my-grandpa

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Is there another shot with all Terror Lieutenants bc their co-dependancy is so important to me

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+ some Goodsir

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the dogboy household (fitzjames) and the catboy household (crozier)

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shoes + art

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guess who's become autistic about a bunch of diseased sailors

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terror shitposting (23/?)

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BTS photos 🥰

[araiz-zaria]

The Times When George Henry Thomas Got Unexpectedly Funny™

George Henry Thomas, Southern Unionist and distinguished Union General, was known to be a quiet and rather stern man by people around him, in public or private. But sometimes, his wit cracked through his facade of steely stolidity. With this wit, he would even manage people around him, colleagues and subordinates, keel over with laughter. Here are a few examples of his wits over the years, duly compiled by yours truly 😉, broadly chronologically arranged.

This one dates back to his time in West Point — while he was composed most of the time, I find it amusing to see him getting flummoxed by a Polish lancer cavalry demonstration 🤭

This is from the time when he was stationed in Florida IIRC. In this letter excerpt Ole Tommy described one way to find where a certain Officer B is by tracing his chewed tobacco spits 😅😅🙈.

Ah yes, Ole Tommy's (in)famous quote on South Carolinian ladies (though I kinda pity him atp he felt so lonely then 🥺🥺)

This is from the time where Ole Tommy was assigned to West Point to become cavalry and artillery instructor. This was how he viewed the superintendent, Major Richard Delafield, back then, with whom he didn't go along well to say the least. I just find his description of "so stingy he'd skin a flea and have its meat too" so hilarious 😅🤣🙈

When Thomas was assigned to West Point he met Frances and married her. His first assignment after his marriage was to Fort Yuma, Arizona. Needless to say that it was a thankless posting, not the least due to its climate. Here ole Tommy retold a joke about the heat at Fort Yuma to his brother in a letter.

...and finally we reached Civil War time 👀👀. A private requested a furlough for marital visit, and this was how Thomas responded to him 😅 "How long since you saw your wife?" Thomas asked. "Ever since I enlisted—nigh on to three months," the soldier replied. "Three months!" exclaimed the general, good-naturedly. "Why, my good man, I haven't seen my wife for three years." 😅😅😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭🙈

After Civil War (and his assignment as the military commander of the Department of Cumberland) Thomas was assigned to the Pacific region (his final assignment 😔😭). Once he arrived at San Francisco, he took the time to survey around the new area he was about to command, which at this time included Alaska as well. His comment on the Alaska purchase though...("would have been useful to cool hot-headed Southerners in '61") ...I'm cackling 😅🤣🤣🤣🙈 (and his comment on himself too... "fast traveling for a slow man" aww ole Tommy 🥺🥺😅🙈) That was more than I expected, but there they are — the few moments where Ole Tommy got unexpectedly funny. What do you think? 😉😏

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I made some really educational memes 😜

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"#love every time we made dave a question and he went all fanficcy #this one and the post-survival one" hello i have a BURNING need to know..... which post-survival question did he answer?

Hi! Sorry for the month-long delay in answering this! I don’t usually get asks on this account so I kept forgetting and say I’d answer as soon as I got to check Dave’s Q&As again, which I kept not being able to check. Anywho, the question I was referring to here was made by Liv on the Q&A session that took place on the 25th of June. You can find the complete recording and transcripts here (along with other fantastic fan-curated resources if you’re new to the fandom.)

Q: If the expedition had been rescued around, say, episode 8/9, and made it home, how do you think the various relationships that developed on screen would have fared back in ““civilization””? Would the intimacies some of these men formed between them persist? I’m also curious to know if you think any of them would resign from the Navy, be it for whatever reason: ethical, practical, physical, to explore other parts of themselves, etc.

I’m gonna try to be as brief as possible because Dave gave a very long response (find the non-abridged version in the link provided above), but this was the meat of it:

Crozier and Blanky would talk endlessly about quitting the Navy but only Crozier would. This doesn’t mean that Blanky would do this comfortably, as he’d already have survived two naval expeditions that turned out badly, so maybe he’d join a whaling ship, even if that would also have gotten under his skin.

He doesn’t think any of the surviving Lieutenants would have come back anywhere close to the poles, but he does think that most of them would have succumbed to the calling of fame and glory, i.e. wanting to return to the sea now that they had been named Commanders or Captains of their own vessels.

He’s not sure if Fitzjames would have been brave enough to stay aside of the Navy, even if during those three months he learnt a lot more about himself that what keeping the same persona for thirty years had brought him. He thinks Fitzjames would have written a “hell of a memoir” as well as a “hell of a military career, and that he would have stayed friends with Crozier, even if some of the things that happened in the Arctic would never have been mentioned again.

Goodsir would return to visit Silna “as often as possible.” Not for romantic reasons, but because there’d have been “a friendship there”. (also, taking into account he is making up all these scenarios after 8 or 9 the tuunbaq would have lived.)

“I think Bridgens and Peglar [smiles] would have worked like dogs to be able to afford some goddamn privacy where they could be together for the rest of their lives. [laughs]”

Pilkington and Des Voeux would have stayed friends.

“Little and Hodgson would be in one another’s lives.” They’d help each other patch themselves up after what happened because they’d both be in denial about everything that went down, helping create “a more palatable story about themselves”.

Sophia would feel like she’d have to choose between Lady Jane and Crozier and would chose the former, especially after the loss of her uncle.

Jopson would have stayed close to Crozier, they’d stay best friends for the rest of their lives.

Golding would commit suicide at some point, he was not equipped to deal with everything that happened and much less to go on living carrying it with him.

David Young’s ring would have been delivered to his sister. (with one of the crystal diamonds having fallen off during the journey.)

Mr Diggle would have been fine and stayed friend with some of the AB’s and midshipmen, but not with anyone else further up the hierarchy.

Collins would have lived a very quiet life, as most of what troubled him was PTSD.

Hartnell would have had a family and lived a quiet life. He’d have stayed close to Manson and from time to time he might have met with Crozier.

Hickey would have ended up in prison if he managed not to ger executed. If Tozer and him had ended up in the same prison they would have avoided each other for years, until they realized they were the one’s more suited for each other’s rest and protection. It’s tricky for Dave to say if they’d have become lovers because he is unsure about Tozer, but it’s prison so HE’LL LET US DECIDE. [ten seconds later he changed his mind] Tozer would have turned to Hickey for that kind of comfort and ended up murdering him, while Hickey convinced himself that he was the one letting himself be murdered. (This is already a very long ask, if you want more details on Hickey’s Vermont sex-cult, ping me and I’ll expand on it, because it was an answer from a different day and I don’t currently have it at hand.)

Gibson wouldn’t have wanted nothing to do with anyone. He might have found some new expedition or a house where he could work in as a domestic servant, but he wouldn’t have told anyone.

Hope this helped!

[representative-democracy]

Oh you think you're special because you have scurvy while on an Arctic exploration mission? Get in line fucko

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