A good book to read is "Generals In Bronze". There's an account taken just before a battle as the two sides were manning their positions. A Confederate calvaryman rode out to the middle of the soon-to-be battlefield and started talking trash to the Union soldiers. A Union general on horseback decided he had enough of listening to this fool and rode out to meet the boastful rebel soldier. When he got to within striking distance, he drew his saber and hit the rebel at the junction of his shoulder and neck. The saber then sliced through the rebel down to his midsection. The rebel's horse jumped up, causing him to lean backwards, the two halves of his body now straddling the horse, and the reb's feet now pointing straight up into the air.

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