It's been argueed that Anderson's moving the garrison to Sumter in the first place was to be seen as belligerent and the sending of the ...   Fri Apr 12th, 2013 08:56 pm

Ok, the Washington Post has several articles on this subject. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-soldiers-long-lost-civil-war-ring-is-returned-to-his-family-in-pennsylvania/2013/04/09/e04c06a8-a09a-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/lost-civil-war-era-ring-returned-to-family-of-union-soldier-from-pennsylvania/2013/04/10/25cb93c4-a1fe-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/civil-war-era-ring-is-back-with-soldiers-family/2013/04/09/d6a3a248-a14c-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_gallery.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ring-lost-in-civil-war-is-returned-to-family-of-union-soldier-from-pennsylvania/2013/04/10/6366a596-a200-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html Might have to register to read that last one. ...   Thu Apr 11th, 2013 06:21 pm

TD, according to Find-A-Grave as well he was a private. Like that they had his burial record posted. Wanna see if I can't look up ...   Thu Apr 11th, 2013 06:07 pm

That is sad news, Javal. But health should come first. ...   Tue Apr 9th, 2013 05:13 pm

Personally I doubt it. I mean is there going to be something from Plutarch, Herodotus, Appian, or someone like that that says something like "Crassus ...   Mon Apr 8th, 2013 02:13 pm

Can that be proven? ...   Mon Apr 8th, 2013 01:09 pm

That's a possibility in today's atmosphere. But I think there's another possibility. If there's anything marking his grave instead of digging him up they may ...   Mon Apr 8th, 2013 01:08 pm

Ah, then I appologize for the start ofmy response. ...   Fri Apr 5th, 2013 03:24 pm

I make that you have little care for Jackson and more care for some of the more succesful Federal generals towards the end of the ...   Fri Apr 5th, 2013 12:48 am

Bad edit, see the double post below. ...   Fri Apr 5th, 2013 12:47 am

Valley Campaign of 1864. Lee sent Jubal Early and his II Corps to defend the Shennadoah Valley against David Hunter and potentially get Grant to ...   Thu Apr 4th, 2013 08:51 pm

Double Canister wrote: Lee beat Mac. He did not beat Grant. Technically Lee did beat Grant even though he surrendered to Grant. If you look at ...   Wed Apr 3rd, 2013 05:06 pm

I know this is an old thread and all, but looking at some of the suggestions for possible what if if Lee hadn't taken command ...   Wed Apr 3rd, 2013 12:06 pm

Gee, sounds like you had an absolutely terrible time.;) Joking aside, it does sound like you folks had a great weekend St Pat's weekend. Glad you ...   Mon Apr 1st, 2013 03:15 pm

How'd the weekened go? ...   Sun Mar 31st, 2013 06:51 pm

Not so sure about that, TD. It does say at the top that for other uses to see the Mana (disambiguation) page. Could be we're ...   Sun Mar 31st, 2013 01:46 pm

This site should help you out a little. http://grapevine.com.au/~kwebb/Generals.html ...   Fri Mar 29th, 2013 02:53 pm

Texas Defender wrote:     Another CW forum that I have seen assigned ranks to all of its members, apparently based solely on the number of postings ...   Wed Mar 27th, 2013 11:47 pm

Top right of the page. Rate Topic. About as close as you'll get to a like button. Unless you mean people. In which case that's ...   Sat Mar 23rd, 2013 08:46 am

That I'm not sure I knew about Wheeler. But I think we all get what we've both said about some form of governmental service after ...   Fri Mar 22nd, 2013 07:18 pm

Same thing could be said about other Confederate generals, TD. Fitzhugh Lee was US consul general at Havana and then was Major General of Volunteers ...   Fri Mar 22nd, 2013 05:26 pm

Technically Thomas could really get things conused. The most famous, as Johan Steele pointed out, is Major General George Henry Thomas. Which is who folks ...   Fri Mar 22nd, 2013 03:23 pm

Given you still hear occasionally of folks today being killed from shells from the Civil War, I'd say the costs from 20th century wars will ...   Thu Mar 21st, 2013 11:43 am

Which theater and when? I mean I could say in March 1862 Joe Johnston was the major general in the Eastern Theater. ...   Thu Mar 21st, 2013 11:20 am

Difference between music for a movie and the actual movie. Personally I liked Dylan's Cross the Green Mountain even though I'm no fan of the ...   Tue Mar 19th, 2013 01:09 pm

Aftr how Gods and Generals ended up I don't think it's a tragedy. ...   Tue Mar 19th, 2013 11:27 am

Just found this article from January 2005 http://www.historynet.com/truth-behind-us-grants-yazoo-river-bender.htm As it seems we have been discussing the drunkeness of Grant, and Lincoln's temperance, it seems it's a ...   Sat Mar 16th, 2013 07:39 pm

Was Lincoln actually a member of the temperance movement. According to Douglas Lee Gibboney's Scandals of the Civil War, pages 2&3: Despite growing up on the ...   Sat Mar 16th, 2013 06:50 pm

For all of us who can't afford to be there, good luck and I hope you guys can interest a few people into signing up ...   Fri Mar 15th, 2013 04:16 pm

No so sure I entirely agree there, TD. My folks have claimed that my 8th grade history teacher told them he turned over the ...   Thu Mar 14th, 2013 10:57 am

Oh hey, bad news for all of us who that Jackson was wounded in battle and those wounds led to his death. Turns out he ...   Thu Mar 14th, 2013 09:22 am

TD, you sure you didn't stumble across someone's 8th grade report on the war that they decided was worth posting online?. Some of the terminology ...   Thu Mar 14th, 2013 09:03 am

Everything about possible paint schemes for The General is helpful to the topic. My last post I posted a link to the reason why I ...   Fri Mar 8th, 2013 02:00 pm

Actually I thought it was either late July or early August the crew learned the war was over and the last shots were June. ...   Thu Mar 7th, 2013 07:56 pm

So ultimately Bulloch would be responsible for the last Confederate surrender. ...   Thu Mar 7th, 2013 06:58 pm

Saw this and I thought I'd share. http://news.yahoo.com/ceremony-monitor-sailors-stirs-familial-ties-162653618.html ...   Sun Mar 3rd, 2013 12:33 pm

Hitler was on the loosing side of a war and a bad idea. And yet you probably have as many historians studying him as Lincoln. ...   Tue Feb 26th, 2013 01:53 pm

The ironic thing is I never thought of Vietnam even though I knew some of the officer in Vietnam had served in WWII. I guess ...   Fri Feb 22nd, 2013 05:51 am

No, not all the personal history. All the people to relate that history, yes. But at least some have recorded their experinces so generations to ...   Thu Feb 21st, 2013 06:56 am

http://www.censusdiggins.com/prison_campchase.html http://www.civilwarhome.com/campchase.htm http://beag27.tripod.com/exchange.html http://beag27.tripod.com/chase.html http://www.civilwarhome.com/prisonerexchange.htm ...   Wed Feb 20th, 2013 07:47 pm