Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde

May 5, 1864:
Grant and Lee clash in the Wilderness forest


The forces of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee clash in the Wilderness forest in Virginia, beginning an epic campaign. Lee had hoped to meet the Federals, who plunged into the tangled Wilderness west of Chancellorsville, Virginia, the day before, in the dense woods in order to mitigate the nearly two-to-one advantage Grant possessed as the campaign opened.

The conflict quickly spread along a two-mile front, as numerous attacks from both sides sent the lines surging back and forth. The fighting was intense and complicated by the fact that the combatants rarely saw each other through the thick undergrowth. Whole brigades were lost in the woods. Muzzle flashes set the forest on fire, and hundreds of wounded men died in the inferno. The battle may have been particularly unsettling for the Union troops, who came across skeletons of Yankee soldiers killed the year before at the Battle of Chancellorsville, their shallow graves opened by spring rains.

By nightfall, the Union was still in control of the major crossroads at the Wilderness. The next two days brought more pitched battles without a clear victory for either side. Grant eventually pulled out and moved further south toward Richmond, Virginia, and for the next six weeks the two great armies maneuvered around the Confederate capital.

habs won
pens lost
i don't think the pens have anything to worry about..they should win the series in 5 games
the habs on the other hand might have a tougher series than most people thought..i still think montreal is going to win but it's going to be in 6 or 7 games

your pens walked all over the isles
boston won
the habs play the sens tonight..i really hope carey price plays like he played at the beginning of the season
all canadian series...go habs go!!

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
-John Lennon

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates

all eyes will be on sundays game ottawa vs boston
go sens go!!

ya baby!!!
your pens clinched the top seed in the east
as long as the habs get the second seed i'll be happy