Quote Originally Posted by wendun View Post
Last time you put these lyrics up you made the obvious error of all morons who don't actually know anything about the American Civil War. You stated "Stonewall's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again..." Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate general who was killed at Chancellorsville two years prior to these events. The actual line states "Stoneman's cavalry..." and refers to the raid by Union general George Stoneman against Danville in 1865.
Indeed, and there was always the problem that most of the railways in the confederacy were a different gauge so their wagons couldn’t use Union track

Maybe Danville was chosen because it was the last of the confederacy’s capitals?