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RR,...... there is only one kinda vee-hickle worth owning,......


 

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I must go with a Dodge Challenger, Hellcat engine. They are my all time favorite. Matte Black, of course. I'll wait until I am 45, no younger, and then get one.
 

Put a Hellcat engine in an old pick up,..... and you're off and runnin.
 

GB1 said:
I'm related to Zachery Taylor the 12th President. His daughter married Jefferson Davis which means i'm related to somewhat.
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Then you are also related to CSA Capt John Taylor Wood, of the Confederate raider, CSS TALLAHASSEE.
Wood was Zachery Taylor's grandson, and Jefferson Davis' nephew.
When he was a LT, he served on the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) during the Hampton Roads battle with the USS Monitor.
After the fall of Richmond, he was captured along with Uncle Davis near Irwinvill , Georgia May 3,1865, but bribed a Dutch Union soldier with two $20 gold double eagles to let him escape.
He caught up with CSA Sec of War John C Breckinridge just over the Florida border, and met up with CSA Sec of State, Judah P Benjamin dressed as a peddler with a wagon at Black Creek, where they were met by river blockade runner, CSA Col Hubbart A Hart with his paddle steamboat, JAMES BURT.
After unloading Benjamin's wagon containing kegs of gold coin and Mexican silver dollars onto the James Burt, the slipped past Union occupied Palatka on the St Johns River with intelligence given by Confederate spy, Lola Sanchez.
Hart took them down the Ocklawaha River to Silver Springs and Ocala, where they stayed for two weeks, Wood and Breckinridge at the home of CSA Brig General Robert Bullock, Benjamin at his cousins Benjamin's home along with his cousin David Levy Yulee's wife and son.
Benjamin, with the aid of the CSA "cow cavalry" made it the Gamble Plantation in Ellenton of the Gulf, and sailed with a blockade runner to the Bahamas.
Wood and Breckinridge were given the USS COLUMBINE's longboat , captured by CSA Capt JJ Dickson, which is the only time a cavalry captured and sank two naval vessels.
They navigated up the St Johns, the "cow cavalry" helped portage to the intercoastal, down to Ft Dallas (Miami) where they hijacked a Cuban fishing boat, sailed to Cuba, where they stayed with Lola Sanchez's relatives, before getting passage to England.
*NOTE* Jefferson Davis' baggage and portion of the Confederate treasury was transported to Florida in a sturdily built ambulance and two heavy wagons by CSA Capt Watson Van Benthuysen, and his brothers WS and JD, who were Davis' brother in laws and five others.
Jefferson Davis' baggage and $35,000 in gold coin was captured by the Union at Yulee's Cottonwood Plantation, May,1865. Before Nannie Yulee and 15 yo son C Wickliffe Yulee went to Ocala, C Wickliffe and CSA Lt John S Purviance buried two of Davis' trunks, which have never been recovered.
*NOTE* Zachery Taylor was the commandant of FORT KING during the 2nd Seminole War , which recently been rebuilt on the original site.
*NOTE* Robert H Gamble of Gamble Plantation was married to Breckinridge's sister, Letitia.
*NOTE* CSA CAPT JAMES McKay of the Florida "cow cavalry" who coordinated cattle shipments to Cuba for payment in gold, daughter, Almeria Belle married Howard Tyson Lykes, who had a steamship company and large cattle ranches in Florida and Texas, which became LYKES MEAT Co, known for their hotdogs and lunchmeat.
 

dang ECS a lot of info there thanks for sharing:icon_thumleft:
 

ECS said:
Then you are also related to CSA Capt John Taylor Wood, of the Confederate raider, CSS TALLAHASSEE.
Wood was Zachery Taylor's grandson, and Jefferson Davis' nephew.
When he was a LT, he served on the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) during the Hampton Roads battle with the USS Monitor.
After the fall of Richmond,.................
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Great story,......... true history.

"I LYKES it very much"



LOL
 

Nice history lesson ECS!

Hey ECS, you ever been to Gator Joe's next to the Barker cabin in Ockalawaha, just south east of Ocala? I was there a couple weeks ago to get a cuban sandwich. The new management seems alright. They didnt change the decor and still got some great old framed newspapers about the Barker "War in the Woods" on the walls in the bar. There's just got to be a big bag of money buried around there someplace.
 

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Duckshot said:
Nice history lesson ECS!

Hey ECS, you ever been to Gator Joe's next to the Barker cabin in Ockalawaha, just south east of Ocala? I was there a couple weeks ago to get a cuban sandwich. The new management seems alright. They didnt change the decor and still got some great old framed newspapers about the Barker "War in the Woods" on the walls in the bar. There's just got to be a big bag of money buried around there someplace.
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Yes I have!
In 1965, a friend, Robin Rose band, THE WOMBATS, rehearsed at the funeral parlor in downtown Ocala where the Barkers were embalmed.
He later went on to form the DC New Wave band, URBAN VERBS.
Also, a Marion County Sheriff deputy carried one of their Thompson 45's w/ drum mag wrapped in oilskin in the trunk of his patrol car and would bring it out and let us teenagers hold it.
*NOTE* During the Barker shootout, the FBI, who were out of Jacksonville, ran out of bullets and had to send a car to get more. Keep on mind that most of the Florida roads then and some in Marion county up until the early '60's were either dirt or crushed limestone which got very mushy during the rainy season.
After receiving their replenished ammo, the shootout commenced, and when it became all quiet, the agents sent in a local Black Man who announced, "Theys all dead here, boss"!
 

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RustyRelics said:
... I'd like to go to that Confederate camp in Florida I remember Bart mentioning...
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Most of Florida's history during the War of Northern Aggression is ignored.
Many unsearched areas of skirmishes, camps, machine shops, scuttled river blockade runners boats, Union raided plantations and towns, and that is just in Central Florida.
 

In honor of the day:


We are a band of brothers
And native to the soil,
Fighting for the property
We gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened,
The cry rose near and far--
"Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!"

CHORUS:
Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.

As long as the Union
Was faithful to her trust,
Like friends and like brothers
Both kind were we and just;
But now, when Northern treachery
Attempts our rights to mar,
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.
CHORUS

First gallant South Carolina
Nobly made the stand,
Then came Alabama,
Who took her by the hand.
Next quickly Mississippi,
Georgia and Florida
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.
CHORUS

Ye men of valor, gather round
The banner of the right;
Texas and fair Louisiana
Join us in the fight.
Davis, our loved president,
And Stephens statesmen are;
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.
CHORUS

And here's to old Virginia--
The Old Dominion State--
Who with the young Confederacy
At length has linked her fate;
Impelled by her example,
Now other states prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.
CHORUS

Then cheer, boys, cheer;
Raise the joyous shout,
For Arkansas and North Carolina
Now have both gone out;
And let another rousing cheer
For Tennessee be given,
The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag
Has grown to be eleven.
CHORUS

Then here's to our Confederacy,
Strong are we and brave;
Like patriots of old we'll fight
Our heritage to save.
And rather than submit to shame,
To die we would prefer;
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.
CHORUS
 

Duckshot, since you are from Packer country I thought PackRat, but when checking names, I saw several versions already, but most are inactive members :icon_scratch:
 

...shootout commenced, and when it became all quiet, the agents sent in a local Black Man who announced, "Theys all dead here, boss"!
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Man, that would make a great movie scene! Samuel Jackson could be the black fellow.

Either him or Bill Cosby if he was younger- "Hey,hey,hey, they're all dead boys!"
 

You could use one of my favorites... There is a guy on YouTube, who is hilarious by the way, who plays a racing game. He's bad at it. He always rear-ends the vehicles in front of him, and he says, "Ass-packed!" lol, there ya go, packers name for ya! :laughing7:
 

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