u/Jimmy_Aztec

​I’m writing this post to warn anyone considering booking a rental car through Priceline and adding their optional rental collision/damage coverage (which is underwritten by RentalCover.com / Cover Genius). Do not waste your money. They will take your payment instantly, but when an actual incident occurs, they will look for any technicality to deny coverage.

​Here is what happened to me:

​I rented a vehicle via Priceline and added the recommended rental protection plan at checkout.

​During the rental period, an accident occurred.

​I returned the car to the rental company (Alamo).

​Because Alamo processed and formally timestamped their damage report after I handed over the keys, RentalCover.com rejected my claim.

​They are hiding behind the technicality of the timestamp on the rental agency's post-return report, claiming the document date/time falls outside the active window—even though the damage explicitly occurred during the rental period while the car was in my possession.

​When you rent a car, the rental agency rarely prints or completes full damage administrative paperwork the second you hand them the keys. Expecting a rental agency's internal incident report to perfectly match your return timestamp is completely unrealistic, and RentalCover uses this technical loophole to avoid paying claims.

Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and ?

George D. Bayard

Hiram G. Berry

Henry Bohlen

Hiram Burnham

Edward P. Chapin

Daniel D. Bidwell

Pleasant A. Hackleman

Charles G. Harker

Alexander Hays

James S. Jackson

Conrad F. Jackson

Philip Kearny

Edmund Kirby

John Howard Kitching

Charles R. Lowell Jr.

Nathaniel Lyon

William H. Lytle

Joseph K. F. Mansfield

Robert L. McCook

Daniel McCook Jr.

James B. McPherson

Jesse L. Reno

John F. Reynolds

Israel B. Richardson

James C. Rice

Samuel A. Rice

Isaac P. Rodman

David A. Russell

William P. Sanders

John Sedgwick

Joshua W. Sill

Thomas A. Smyth

Isaac I. Stevens

Thomas G. Stevenson

George C. Strong

George W. Taylor

William R. Terrill

Strong Vincent

James S. Wadsworth

William H. L. Wallace

Stephen H. Weed

Amiel W. Whipple

Thomas Williams

Frederick Winthrop

Samuel K. Zook

 

Why does it seem like nearly every notable person in the Civil War was everywhere?

It seems every general was in the Mexican War, involved in California, at member of some president's administration, involved in Indian wars, and of course, several parts of the Civil War.

I've been reading about General Canby. He was fighting in New Mexico at the start of the war, in charge of a POW prison in New York, involved in the fight for Mobile, in Virgina for reconstruction, and of course, he died in northern California--killed by Indians.

These guys were everywhere!

What's your nomination for the creepiest place in Oceanside?

I'll start: the men's restroom at Angelo's in north Oceanside.

Sherman and I went together into a manufactory which had not ceased work on account of the battle nor for the entrance of Yankee troops. Our presence did not seem to attract the attention of either the manager or the operatives, most of whom were girls. We looked on for a while to see the tent cloth which they were making roll out of the looms, with "C. S. A." woven in each bolt. There was an immense amount of cotton, in bales, stacked outside. Finally I told Sherman I thought they had done work enough. The operatives were told they could leave and take with them what cloth they could carry. In a few minutes cotton and factory were in a blaze. The proprietor visited Washington while I was President to get his pay for this property, claiming that it was private. He asked me to give him a statement of the fact that his property had been destroyed by National troops, so that he might use it with Congress where he was pressing, or proposed to press, his claim. I declined.

I was reading Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and came across something that surprised me.

Grant mentions that, at least during the first year of the Civil War, officers from the Union and Confederate armies who had known each other before the war would sometimes visit one another under a flag of truce. He describes Confederate officers crossing into Illinois to visit him, and he also crossed Confederate lines to visit them. Despite being on opposite sides, they were apparently quite cordial because many had been classmates at West Point or had served together in the prewar Army.

I had never really thought about that aspect of the war. It made me wonder: did this kind of socializing between opposing officers continue as the war became more brutal, or was it mostly limited to the early stages before attitudes hardened? Are there other well-documented examples of this happening later in the war?

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I just heard an interview with Laurence Juber, who is a former guitarist for Wings and is the husband of Hope Schwartz, where he mentioned he and Hope have written a Brady Bunch musical that they are trying to get produced.

I love Paul to death, but Mountain Top is Here comes Peter Cottontail.