the war of northern agression

Just something I found amusing:

"Or Robert E. Lee, who, many years after the war , in a dying delirium, announced, 'Strike the tent!'

I was mulling over why the Confederate generals had better last words then the Union ones (Ulysses S. Grant's last word, 'Water,' was pretty lame."


It's interesting to see that Grant's last one word was water. Which I think would be quite a common last word around the world and throughout time. But Lee had gone crazy still thinking he was in the war and wanted to strike the tent.

I'm still reading Looking for Alaska. I'm going a bit slow though. In the book its close to Thanksgiving and Miles/Pudge has decided to stay at school with Alaska. The Colonel's mom however, invites them to have Thanksgiving with her and the Colonel.