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 Posted: Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 07:15 am
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Johan Steele wrote: Using the evidence provided by Baker you would also have to call every member of the Regular Army at the time gay as well as Jeff Davis & R.E. Lee. It was standard practice to share a bunk in a barracks, including the Citadel & West Point.
You brought up the thing I was thinking. Think there needs to be considerably more evidence to suggest he was gay than what is generally given as the primary evidence. And the practice of sleeping in the same bed as another man seems to be the primary evidence used.