Ex-wife Joe???? Are you referring to the one who went missing that day you were fishing?

Back in the War Between the States, there was a Confederate general named Braxton Bragg for which Fort Bragg is named.....Why they named it after him, I have no idea as he was a dyspeptic and unpleasant person prone to losing battles and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on several occasions. He was widely disliked and not respected by his troops and other officers as well. But Braxton Bragg had one enduring and endearing quality and that was to call a spade a spade if he saw it that way from his point of view.

A few years prior to the war he was the Quartermaster of a western post. The post commander died and Bragg was named to the job until a permanent commander could be put in place. As Quartermaster Bragg he wrote a letter/memo to the Post Commander complaining of something. As Post Commander Bragg, he wrote back explaining the situation, arguing with the points made by the Quartermaster. Quartermaster Bragg read Post Commander Bragg's response and wrote a scathing diatribe in return. Thus began a long correspondence between the two lasting quite some time.

I have always loved that story and found it quite singular that a man could correspond seriously with himself to the extent that Bragg did. He didn't need anyone else to have an argument when he himself would do. I thought the story was extremely funny and I used to get a big laugh out of it.

I used to.........

Spaw