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Zephod Beeblebrox

@lednaBM @Floppa

I'm not sure when the US civil war was but I happened upon a video of eldelry Confederate veterans doing the rebel yell on film that was shot in the 1930s so it is possible Pliny and Tacitus did speak to people who were there as young men then wrote as old men.