GDG- RE: OT, The NHL and The civil War

[Bill and Glenna Jo Christen]

I tend to believe that "blue jackets" refers to the Shawnee chief Blue
Jacket. Blue Jacket's early actions against the United Sates led to the
first American "civil war"  when another Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, tried to
establish a confederation of native peoples on the then western border of
the United States.

"Blue Jacket or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – c. 1810) was a war chief of the
Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio
Country. Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest
Indian War, in which a pan-tribal confederacy fought several battles with
the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous
Shawnee leader Tecumseh."*

*Heidelberg College. Weyapiersenwah biography at the Fallen Timbers
Battlefield Archaeological Project
http://www.heidelberg.edu/academiclife/researchprograms/chma/fallen_timbers
http://www2.heidelberg.edu/FallenTimbers/FTbio-BlueJacket.html

No Gettysburg connection, but there should be points for the words "civil
war," "confederacy" and a CW general's middle name and name of a CW era US
Navy ship.

Bill Christen