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Piston came to our CWRT last year and is quite a good speaker. We've also had Shea too and of course he wrote the book on Pea Ridge. I think Piston wrote the WC section of the tour book, Shea PR and Hatcher PG. Not sure what Hess did, maybe overall putting it together. They each put the tours together with their own style, so they're are differences in how the tours work and are numbered. I actually like the way Piston did WC over the other two, it's almost like he tries to tell you what happened at spots other than the tour stops. If not for his tour telling me where to stop, so I could walk through the Ray Cornfield over Plummer's advance I probably wouldn't have done that.
I have that Earle song on my iPod, I think he's too rough on old Ben. I actually respect what he did during the war other than his Stonewall Jackson like refusal to share his plans with his subordinates and doing his own reconnaisance, he seems to have acquitted himself well during his short time in the war. I did pick up Cutrer's biography of him at Pea Ridge, so we'll see what he has to say, some day.
Afraid I will have to take a break from my saga today, work has presented some emergencies and tonight is CWRT and my speaker is stuck in Nashville.