Mbo and Lonesome EJ,

EJ--I missed something. Most cavalrymen are privates, just like most infantrymen. If you could bring your own horse or mule, you could be in the cavalry.

My intent was not to ruin the song for anyone, and I think we've all done some nitpicking somewhere along the line. By the letter, yes--all of the divisions of the A of NV did their thing with Lee, and I can see that the singer might have *ridden with Lee* in spirit (meaning that he admired and felt devoted to the General). On the other hand, I think it can hardly hurt when the whole point of the song to begin with was to make fun of the people whose views it purports to convey.

I could nitpick about a lot of other threads (like the fact that there are no pink-eyed albino stallions because true albinism doesn't exist in horses) but I don't. I didn't mean to start a debate with this, and if it isn't worth nitpicking about whether or not somebody literally rode with Lee, I don't think it's worth nitpicking about whether or not they didn't.

I hope I'm done. With this exception, this is a pretty cool thread.