DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
General Joseph Johnston ******************************************************************************************************* General George McClellan.
On These Days, May 31st - June 1st, 1862. The Battle of 7 Pines (South), The Battle of Fair Oaks (North)
During the Civil War it was not uncommon for the North and South to use different names for battles. The South tended to use the name of the nearest town and the North geographic features. In this particular case, 7 Pines was the crossroad on Williams road where the initial engagement had taken place and Fair Oaks was a rail station used by the Union about a mile North of the crossroad. The Union Army under General George McClellan (34,000 troops) was within 6 miles of the Confederate Capitol Richmond. Confederate General Joseph Johnston (39,000 troops) was cautious and strategically withdrew behind the swollen Chickahominy River. The heavy fighting over 2 days saw the most casualties so far in the war, about 8,000 Confederate and 5,700 Union. Johnston was seriously wounded the evening of May 31st.
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Battle Outcome. The Battle of Seven Pines was pretty much a stalemate. Both sides claimed victory, but neither side had achieved much. For the South, the Battle held significance for another reason. Confederate President Jefferson Davis used Johnston’s injury as an opportunity to place the more aggressive General Robert E. Lee in command of the Confederate "Army of Northern Virginia". A position he held until the end of the war.
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General Joseph E Johnston (1807-1891) I found Johnston's biography interesting. A native Virginian, he graduated West Point in 1929. He served as a second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Artillery. He left the Army to study Civil Engineering and ended up on a war ship as a Topographer (mapping, charting) during the second Seminole War. His experience there led him to rejoin the Army. He served in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and as a Quartermaster General in California. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Johnston resigned his U.S. Army commission, at the time he held the rank of Brigadier General, serving as the Quartermaster General of the United States Army. He was the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Army to resign his commission and join the Confederacy. After recovering from the injuries he received at 7 Pines Johnston was given command in more Western theaters. Johnston was not tactically aggressive and tended toward strategic retreats and withdrawals, a character trait Confederate President Davis did not like. Johnston surrendered to Sherman in 1865. After the war he persued many businesses ventures and served in Congress a short while. Former Confederate General Johnston and Union General Sherman were lifelong friends. 84 year old Johnston served as pallbearer at Sherman's funeral in the rain, caught pneumonia, and died a month later.
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Yesterday's mail call. 119 PATRIOT, a BCCI exclusive and sold online in the Members Only store. Red, White, and Blue Lucite handle by Leroy Remer and a flag etched on the blade by Brian Yellowhorse. I think the handle would have been much more striking if a solid white had been used instead of a translucent, the vibrancy is kinda sucked out of it by the darker red and blues on each side. I wonder how many of those 75th anniversary 119 sheaths Buck still has laying around. Joe Houser seems to have an endless supply for his customs. Also interesting that it came in a Factory Blem box. Overall I like it but will look for a more deserving sheath.
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) for no particular reason except I already had the small one out. The micarta on the big one, AKA "Maverick", is my favorite of all the micarta knives I have. Very tactile. The G-10 on the small one provides excellent grip also 
