Little Galusha Pennypacker
Forget Madison, Mason, Olivia, Logan, and Jayden — for all of you expectant mothers and fathers pondering what to name to bequeath your little bundle of joy, here are some spot-on, Civil War-era suggestions from The Hairpin!
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1. Cullen Andrews Battle
2. John “Old Wooden Head” Hood
3. Francis Asbury Shoup
4. Stand Watie
5. Gideon Johnson Pillow
6. Birkett Davenport Fry
7. Richard “Fighting Dick” Anderson
8. Leonidas “The Fighting Bishop” Polk
9. Charles “Savvy” Read
10. Daniel Ruggles
11. David Rumph Jones
12. Galusha Pennypacker
13. Wager Swayne
14. Edward Otho Cresap Ord
15. Ludwig Blenker
16. Amasa Cobb
17. Louis Trezevant Wigfall
18. Thomas Fentress Toon
19. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer
20. James “Sally” Archer
21. Cadwallader Colden Washburn
22. Samuel Kosciuszko Zook
23. Young Marshall Moody
24. John Seashoales Witcher
25. Amiel Weeks Whipple
26. Manning Force
27. Catharinus Buckingham
28. Absalom Baird
29. John Sappington Marmaduke
30. Bushrod Rust Johnson
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(Daguerreotype via TVHistory)
My great-grandmonther was a Pillow! It’s why I’m so much fun to cuddle…
And I thought we were retro-cool old school by naming our daughters Evelyn Cadalise and Lillian Felicitas…
Those are gorgeous names! But it’s never too late to call one of them Galusha or Young Marshall Moody.
Mark my words: Cullen will make a comeback, based solely on the Twilight series. Today’s tweens are the mommies of tomorrow.
>> “Today’s tweens are the mommies of tomorrow.”
– Probably sooner than we’d like, actually. *sadtrombone*