Cold Harbor Johhny Shiloh: Part 1 Shenandoah Tall Target The Beguiled The Great Locomotive Chase Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders   What about The Andersonville Trial? ...   Wed Mar 9th, 2011 11:41 pm

I think The Conspirator is an absolute can not add to the list for two reasons. First, it hasn't been released in theaters yet. According ...   Wed Mar 9th, 2011 02:48 am

Johhny Shiloh: Part 1 Shenandoah The Beguiled The Great Locomotive Chase Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders     I just had a thought. How old do the movies ...   Tue Mar 8th, 2011 05:37 am

Ok, so I guess so far we've done the following to add list Johhny Shiloh: Part 1 The Great Locomotive Chase Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders   Should ...   Mon Mar 7th, 2011 10:32 pm

Rifles for Watie. I know it's more of a teen book and all, but I can remember reading it in the 8th grade and being ...   Mon Mar 7th, 2011 08:11 am

That is not an excuse. The movie is based on the book as Gettysburg is based on The Killer Angels. Gettysburg better followed The Killer ...   Mon Mar 7th, 2011 05:28 am

The following is from the diary of 1st Sergeant Samuel A. Clear, Co. K, 116th Pa Volunteers. The enteries are from March 1865. Wednesday, March 1st We ...   Sun Mar 6th, 2011 01:17 am

True. We could probably come up with a list of movies, whether we like them all ourselves or not, of movies they could have added ...   Sat Mar 5th, 2011 10:25 pm

Any of these from Disney? If so, then I'm a little surprised their not airing The Great Locomotive Chase. Course if none are, then I ...   Sat Mar 5th, 2011 07:06 am

Thanks J Harold. That clears a lot up so now I can understand it a little better even if I've not attended. Sometimes just need ...   Wed Mar 2nd, 2011 11:32 pm

Pardon my ignorance, but why on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address? Why not on July 1st, 2nd, or 3rd? I'm just curious to learn ...   Wed Mar 2nd, 2011 06:42 pm

HankC wrote: Albert Sailhorst wrote: Hank, I don't know where your CW reenactments take place, but as an active reenactor, specifically, with an artillery unit, ...   Fri Feb 25th, 2011 05:53 am

Good actors can mean nothing if the script isn't there, if the director does a bad job directing them, or if the production itself is ...   Tue Feb 15th, 2011 01:51 am

I really like the part concerning the movie Gods and Generals versus his book. It really sounds like he's as disappointed in the movie as ...   Thu Jan 27th, 2011 02:27 am

Javal, is discussing how one may sees the divide still being in effect so far off the original question as to be unwarranted in the ...   Tue Jan 25th, 2011 06:46 am

Actually, Vermont itself was an independent republic. 1777 saw the creation of first Republic of New Connecticut from the NH grants in January then in ...   Mon Jan 24th, 2011 03:34 am

The irony is that people don't stop to think about Washington being a Southerner. Or Jefferson. They think of them in terms of the Revolution. ...   Sun Jan 23rd, 2011 04:06 am

I'm not sure it was chivalrous or if I even deserve to be admired to be perfectly honest. I shouldn't have gotten involved in the ...   Sat Jan 22nd, 2011 04:35 am

I take partial responsibility for that if she has been scared away. ...   Sat Jan 22nd, 2011 02:20 am

Why is it I sense an extremely nasty turn coming. ...   Thu Jan 20th, 2011 06:49 am

 Some of the generals were better at leading smaller forces or even earlier in the war. Part of Hooker's problem at Chancellorsville came from his ...   Thu Jan 20th, 2011 03:29 am

I've nothing against Shaara's books. My problem here is more with the movie Gods and Generals compared to the movie Gettysburg. They're both based on two of ...   Thu Jan 20th, 2011 03:12 am

9Bama wrote: Barlow wrote: Let me count the ways: 1.  When Notre Dame plays Alabama, I always root for Notre Dame.  North trumps South Always in ...   Wed Jan 19th, 2011 09:00 am

I just learned today of the passing of Major Richard "Dick" Winters and thought I just like to let others who may have come to ...   Tue Jan 11th, 2011 03:59 am

Exactly, TD. As I said, I wasn't paying much attention, but the program made it sound like it was after the war the government decided ...   Fri Jan 7th, 2011 04:43 am

That depends on who this was aimed at. My thoughts when I posted my comments were that I can't wait to hear the "Lee was ...   Thu Jan 6th, 2011 08:56 pm

Caught it, sounds like their really gearing up for the 150th anniversary. Next week they do Grant Wonder what's coming up later in the year. ...   Tue Jan 4th, 2011 05:00 am

Big computer year for me. I got a laptop as an early birthday present (it's a little over a week before Christmas and I got the ...   Tue Jan 4th, 2011 04:47 am

For me it's the turkey liver. My mom makes fantastic giblet gravy but as I was growing up she couldn't follow her family recipe because ...   Wed Nov 10th, 2010 12:39 am

HAPPY HALLOWEEN  This shall be the last one I post and comes from Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War and Civil War Ghosts & Legends. ...   Mon Nov 1st, 2010 03:57 am

This comes from Ghosts abd Haunts of the Civil War. Before the war, on Cedar Lane, Montgomery House was one of the mansions on the outskirts of ...   Sun Oct 31st, 2010 07:30 pm

From Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War  and Strange Tales of the Civil War comes this next story. Anyone studying Lincoln during the war ...   Sun Oct 31st, 2010 10:14 am

Well here it's after 12 AM on October 31st as I type this. Halloween. So things are winding doing and I'll soon stop posting more of these ...   Sun Oct 31st, 2010 04:53 am

Did John C. Calhoun know the South was going to succeed in the 1860s. Certainly he was a supporter of states right and a man ...   Sat Oct 30th, 2010 07:05 am

How about a little bit of murder and house haunting. This next one comes from John Alexander's Ghosts: Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories. During the fighting ...   Sat Oct 30th, 2010 02:42 am

In the superstitions of the British Isles there is there belief in the Black Dog, an ennormous dog with glowing eyes. To see the dog is ...   Fri Oct 29th, 2010 07:56 am

This one's a little different from the last three presented. It comes from Strange Tales of the Civil War by Michael Sanders. The story goes that ...   Fri Oct 29th, 2010 03:04 am

One of the better known ghost stories related to the war is perhaps that of one of the better known trains from the war. A ...   Thu Oct 28th, 2010 07:49 am

This next one also comes from Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War and deals with a location established after the war. Creston, Iowa was ...   Thu Oct 28th, 2010 02:19 am

Ok, this second story comes from Chistopher Coleman's Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War. Mr. Coleman records the story of a class fieldtrip to ...   Wed Oct 27th, 2010 05:53 am