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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3128523, member: 10461&quot;]Y&#039;know, you&#039;re totally right.&nbsp; While writing up the last installment, I myself thought, &quot;<i>geez, how lame - I&#039;ve been calling this guy &#039;the homeowner&#039; all this time, without bothering to </i><b>name</b><i> him!&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>It sorta shows how what was initially supposed to be a 1-3 part, very short story instead got dragged out a bit <i>too</i> much because I was having so much fun serializing it, clickbait style.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well.&nbsp; It&#039;s kinda late now.&nbsp; I think he&#039;s just <i><b>Dave</b></i>.&nbsp; But maybe his full name is <i>David Cedric Knickerbottom</i>, for all we know.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also really surprised at your psychic divining skills, because as it happens ...</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">In early 1861, <b>Isaac Culpepper</b> was a wealthy lowcountry Carolina planter who wanted to become a CSA colonel by raising a cavalry unit to be called &quot;Culpepper&#039;s Palmetto Paladins&quot;.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">But he was tragically killed in a freak accident when he leaped his horse too high and brained himself on a low-hanging tree limb.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5">So the unit was never officially formed, and its regimental records and all the money saved for its formation mysteriously vanished after would-be Colonel Culpepper&#039;s fatal accident.&nbsp; </font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5">&quot;Colonel&quot; Culpepper was a bachelor, and so died without heirs to lament his lost fortune, but he did leave behind some very troubled creditors.&nbsp; (Of course as the war dragged on, things would go from bad to worse for them.)</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">Sadly, the historical record remains silent on the story of Culpepper&#039;s Palmetto Paladins.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">If only some documents had survived...</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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