pristine = 'faultless; perfectly executed'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson, we're overdue.

JL

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > 2011 Louis P. Masur _The Civil War: A Concise History_ (N.Y.: OUP) 38:
> But
> > there is so much in war that no on can control....Only [Stonewall]
> Jackson's
> > campaign [in the Shenandoah Valley] seemed pristine, a model of a general
> in
> > perfect command, executed with bravado.
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> > JL
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> Jon, you're going to have a nervous breakdown!
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> Or, I am.;-)
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