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Fire Memes for Traitor-Haters

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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.

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[โ€“] MrJ199414 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-in-waistcoat

"With the invention of photography, the pose continued but may have had an additional purpose in preventing blurring by maintaining the sitter's hand in a single place. The pose is commonly seen in photographs of members of the military, with a number of American Civil War photographs showing the pose, or indicated by three open buttons on a tunic.[6]"