This story is from EC Publishing Company’s FRONTLINE COMBAT written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Jack Davis.
It is a story of a feeling that was typical of southern young men during the beginning of the Civil War – they thought they were going to whip the Yankee’s asses. I think some of them were shocked when the Yankee’s fought back and Johnny Reb’s own blood and guts were spilled. War wasn’t as glorious as it was cracked up to be.
General Beauregard is mentioned several times in the story. Unless there was more than one CSA General Beauregard, that would have been General P.G.T. Beauregard from Louisiana. The general ordered the first shot to be fired in the Civil War when he ordered that Fort Sumter (Charleston, SC Bay) to be fired upon. Also the CSS HUNLEY, the first human controlled submarine, was constructed under his watch in Charleston.
That kid who gets it in the end of WHUPPED looks suspiciously like a self portrait of Wally!
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