[Emailed September 22, 1997]

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For your Monday morning update this week, I would like to make the following observation and comment:

AU 31 LSU 28!!!

wwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrRRRRRR EAGLE! HEY!

Ahem. Thank you.

Now, in the spirit of jubilant victory, I offer you this anecdote regarding cavalryman Jeb Stuart, a jubilant victor if there ever was one, related by a Mr. U. R. Brooks (whoever that was).

"[On December 28, 1862, we] crossed the Occoquan River, and proceeded to Burke Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, capturing the telegraph and operator, and some supplies. Here General Stuart opened communication with old Abe, and elicited several respectful responses; when he concluded be remonstrating with him respecting the inferior qualities of his mules, in the following dispatch:

'President Lincoln: The last draw of wagons I've just made are very good, but the mules are inferior stock, scarcely able to haul off the empty wagons; and if you expect me to give your lines any further attention in this quarter, you should furnish better stock, as I've had to burn several valuable wagons before getting them into my lines! (Signed) J. E. B. Stuart'"