Peshtigo Paradigm. Dresden and Tokyo were prime examples of a fire that cost more lives, property damage, and area but was largely ignored at the ...   Wed Feb 20th, 2013 05:10 pm

Personally I get the feeling that to MacArthur everyone who wasn't named Douglas MacArthur was a clerk. ...   Tue Feb 19th, 2013 11:37 am

Can't much say it would shock me, my opnion of MacArthur isn't exactly the best after reading an article on Historynet on MacArthur and Ike ...   Tue Feb 19th, 2013 09:16 am

Which park? ...   Mon Feb 18th, 2013 08:25 am

Found the book, TD. Scandals of the Civil War by Douglas Lee Gibboney. Was wrong about the broken arm, it was a couple different incident's ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 02:21 pm

Wasn't there something about nearly getting expelled from West Point over a local tavern or something. I gotta find that book again, that was one ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 01:04 pm

No clue to be honest. But like I said, I find the whole story of Bragg argueing with himself like that funny cause it sounds ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 12:32 pm

Texas Defender wrote: As for Civil War books, I'm afraid that no matter how large your collection grows, you'll never be able to assemble a ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 12:15 pm

Forget the quote, the whole story is funny. Like an old Looney Tunes or Popeye baseball cartoon. I'm seeing Both Bugs and Popeye playing pitcher ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 05:49 am

But TD, this isn't about friendly fire, it's about efforts to cover up friendly fire incidents or any other incident that folks might not have ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 05:38 am

Oh, sorry, TD. I thought you meant you had no idea of him being in prison, not of if the disability could have landed him ...   Sun Feb 3rd, 2013 12:27 pm

Texas Defender wrote:   As for the prison angle, I have no idea.   But the idea makes sense. The roster for the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery ...   Sat Feb 2nd, 2013 09:43 am

TD, I'm not sure their the same man. I went further into the Wisconsin Geneology Trails site and went to the 8th Wisconsin. Eugene Perham ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 08:49 pm

Ok, the Wisconsin Geneology Trails link above ain't working when I click it. Try this link and go to Jacobs to Perham http://genealogytrails.com/wis/1stWIHeavyArtilleryReg.html ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 08:34 pm

TD, the first time I did the search I just searched for a Eugene Perham from Wisconsin without selecting a function and it came up ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 07:43 pm

I checked the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database. All they say for his record is this: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldier_id=6cb74ec2-dc7a-df11-bf36-b8ac6f5d926a. Now according to this he was just ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 07:18 pm

Would some of those sources happen to be a game? I can't rmember if I even saw the title of the game, maybe Modern War ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 05:52 am

Did anyone attend this symposium? If so, can you tell us about it? ...   Thu Jan 31st, 2013 06:11 pm

Video is good. I got to thinking about this question and thinking back to when I was younger. Some of the museums that stick out ...   Wed Jan 30th, 2013 02:21 pm

Edited out cause I don't want to start a fight. ...   Tue Jan 29th, 2013 04:40 pm

I haven't yet found anything in either source, Mark. To be honest I haven't yet pulled out my copy of The American Illiad as I ...   Mon Jan 28th, 2013 09:29 pm

After SC seceded I'd say the war was inevitable. We've discussed in the forums before the attack on Fort Pickens in January 1861, http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/forums/forum1/3139-1.html (why ...   Mon Jan 28th, 2013 07:57 am

You know, I'd have to check either The War of the Rebellion or The American Iliad on that. Probably The War of the Rebellion as ...   Sat Jan 26th, 2013 02:32 pm

Graham Smith's Civil War Weapons states this on the Gatling on page 236: In practice the mechanism was unwieldy and unreliable, and the Gatling wasn't adopted ...   Sat Jan 26th, 2013 11:46 am

Why wouldn't Lee have tried the Maryland Campaign against Grant, bolaman1975? ...   Fri Jan 18th, 2013 08:34 am

Still doing research on this. I did come up with this, http://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2009/01/ezra-carman-stonewall-jackson-and.html. I did find the article mentioned there, http://www.americanheritage.com/content/stonewall-jackson%E2%80%99s-deadly-calm. Also I read Dr. Lowry's ...   Thu Jan 17th, 2013 10:02 am

Ok so a month ago I picked up Dr. Thomas P Lowry's The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. With Christmas ...   Wed Jan 16th, 2013 08:07 am

Yeah, I did manage to find that site, think it was before I found the video I posted. I also found this site, http://local.trainz.com/articles/general.html, which ...   Fri Jan 11th, 2013 06:02 pm

I managed to find this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXGe9m1lk8. It appears to have the picture from page 12 of the PDF I linked to above, but the ...   Fri Jan 11th, 2013 11:11 am

Ok, this makes things even more confusing, http://home.earthlink.net/~khsociety/general/general.pdf. At the top of page 12 is what's claimed to be an early 20th century postcard image ...   Fri Jan 11th, 2013 10:44 am

If it had been Jackson instead of Lee I wonder how well that would have gone over. ...   Thu Jan 3rd, 2013 09:32 am

While true, it is still something that is an unhappy event when you read it. It would be a different matter to read a soldier's ...   Tue Jan 1st, 2013 04:27 pm

I was going to look through Randall Bedwell's War Is All Hell but then I remembered this letter I posted back in 2007 in the ...   Tue Jan 1st, 2013 03:16 am

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker Major General Joe Hooker Yeah, I find that one funny because of who said it. ...   Tue Jan 1st, 2013 03:05 am

No, I hadn't seen that image. That adds more to my confusion, I'm afraid, cause it's red and black with yellow and gold detailing. I ...   Mon Dec 24th, 2012 09:59 pm

I have a quick question. Does anyone know what the original colors of the locomotive the General were? I've been looking at model trains on ...   Mon Dec 24th, 2012 06:19 pm

You're right about Lincoln's campaign being saved by Federal victories in 1864. I know I've read the fall of Atlanta and the capture of Mobile ...   Fri Dec 21st, 2012 07:15 pm

I'll have to look it up but I thought McClellan's intention was to just end the war and make peace with the South, not whether ...   Fri Dec 21st, 2012 12:20 pm

Ok, so why wasn't Davis hung? You said had he been caught between April 15th and July 7th he would have also been hung. Well ...   Thu Dec 20th, 2012 02:09 pm

Something I just thought about. There could have been a reason he was slow, a political reason. Perhaps he was setting himself up for the ...   Thu Dec 20th, 2012 01:55 pm