As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In 1862 during the Civil War one of the nuances of military matters took place which to this day has no definitive answer.
The theater for this warfare was General Buelle of Union forces in Ohio being stalemated by General Braxton Bragg of the Confederacy along with General Sterling Price.
Things had not progressed well for the Union in they had force Bragg back, but in follow up had been delayed building railroads, which allow the Confederates to reassemble and start threatening Cincinnati.
Into this was the command of Major General William Nelson of Louisville. On the south was given command of Brigadier General Philip Sheridan.
Into this was mixed General Jefferson C. Davis of the Union forces.
On September 29th, 1862 AD in the year of our Lord, at Galt House, which was the headquarters of General Nelson, General Davis appeared.
Several days previous, Nelson and Davis had been involved in a dispute concerning official matters. Nelson apparently sought early on the morning of the 29th, a redress, which as this was not about Union or Confederate prejudices, but appears something about situation of command in the commanding General in Nelson not allowing Davis command and brushing him off.
It appears, that in all things local, that somewhere in this General Nelson had obtained an understanding that Davis had not prosecuted his duty fully, as in neglecting to fight in some battle perhaps and stated as such.
Nelson refused to even discuss it, but Davis pressed on and deemed it an insult that Nelson would not listen. To this Davis who had a ball of paper he had been kneading as he was nervous, threw it in his commander's face.
Nelson responded in Naval terms as he was a Navy officer before the war, by slapping Davis at the insult and stating he was a coward.
Nelson then turned and went to the stairs of the house, and at that point Davis had obtained a pistol from a bystander and then shot Nelson in the chest, just above the heart.
Nelson being ill, but yet strong, still climbed the stairs and there collapsed on the second floor where he died one half hour later.
General Buell notified Washington DC of the murder, but Washington did absolutely nothing concerning it. The case never was brought before civil or military courts, In fact, General Davis was later assigned to a command in Buell's army after Buell was removed.
Davis would be shot later by General J. B. Fry, who was General Buell's chief of staff.
The military has always been a worse female clique than a gossip party. General Custer in his entire command was assassinated by Indian agents for his daring to expose the Grant regime in it's Indian Ring crimes.
The old guard deemed it was a breach for Custer to testify before Congress, and covered up the failure of duty of General Crook in leaving the field with his Army to assist General Custer, along with the cowardice of Major Reno and the absolute homicide of Capt. Benteen in not assisting General Custer.
Reno was given command instead and it was all covered up. The regular military took vengeance on Reno and Benteen later in court martial to rectify the crimes against the Custer command, but the murder of General Nelson with Washington doing absolutely nothing about it was criminal as intrigue of politics prevailed in protecting the murderer General Davis.
Common sense pieces much of this together in numbers of 'officers' were fluff. They commanded nothing before and were appointed by politics or having money. Most were connected and had protection. Some were not and some were military men from other branches of service, so when they were murdered, the army nor political groups did nothing to prosecute.
Everyone likes to believe the fiction of history that all was always military order and everyone acted like a gentleman in the United States military, but nothing could be further from the fact.
nuff said
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