• Zwiebel@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Van Lew’s spy network was so efficient that on several occasions she sent Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant fresh flowers from her garden and a copy of the Richmond newspaper.

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    Btw you gotta put a > between the paragraphs too to make it all into one big quote:

    >paragraph1
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    >paragraph2

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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      lmao, thanks, I remember fighting with it a bit after I moved from Lemmy, but I eventually got tired of it and just started letting them divide instead of risking it being on massive run-on.

      What does this mean?

      While deep in enemy territory, undetected and mostly unsuspected, she sent General Grant fresh flowers as little tokens of Richmond just as a way of saying “I’m here, and I’m invulnerable”

      The local newspapers might also contain some intel, being notoriously loose-lipped institutions.