CleburneFan wrote: Unfortuantely my Civil War books aren't organized, just stacked randomly pretty much as I read them, so it will take awhile to dig out ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:56 am

I'm reading through this concerning the What if on Fort Sumter thread and there's one thing that seriously bothers me. I know exactly what it ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:35 am

By April 12, 1861 seven states had seceeded and formed a seperate nation. Lincoln had said that his goal was to preserve the union, so ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:28 am

Joel Smith wrote: History being what it is we, as in United States citizens, tend to think of the war monolithically in terms of a block ...   Sat May 19th, 2012 04:42 am

Are you talking about the scene of Federal soldiers being killed on the road and then Costner says "Get 'em off the road." Scene quite ...   Mon May 7th, 2012 02:20 am

True. But then he was anti his commanding officer at the time and caused trouble for him after the battle. Same for Butterfield. Both were ...   Sun May 6th, 2012 06:59 am

Congrats:D ...   Sat May 5th, 2012 01:25 am

Looks like Cist was too busy after the first volume came out to produce a second volume. He did a bio on Thomas, did magazine ...   Fri May 4th, 2012 02:28 am

CleburneFan wrote: Another thing, just because lots of people don't post, doesn't mean lots of people don't come here and "lurk". Amen to that. I have ...   Fri May 4th, 2012 01:14 am

The people of the North weren't that strongly with Lincoln until pretty much the end of the summer of 1864. His campaign was stalling going ...   Wed Apr 18th, 2012 03:01 am

Sherman had taken Atlanta by the time November 8, 1864 came around, which helped contribute to Lincoln's re-election. As did the fall of Mobile Bay. ...   Tue Apr 17th, 2012 02:29 am

Thanks TD. I can only quote Davis and Chestnut as their the only Southern POVs I've found thus far in the book on Lincoln's assassination. ...   Tue Apr 17th, 2012 01:57 am

Texas Defender wrote: Gettyburger-   The assasination of Mr. Lincoln was a great disaster for the south, as Mr. Davis noted when he learned of it. I certainly ...   Mon Apr 16th, 2012 04:49 am

ebg wrote: Did James Buchanan execute his office faithfully when South Carolina tryed to leave the Union? We have to give him the benifit of the ...   Sun Apr 15th, 2012 08:32 am

Who was president when Texas seceded? If we argue about the president having to defend the Constitution and thus the union of the states then ...   Sat Apr 14th, 2012 09:28 am

Isn't there a thread about this somewhere? A major debate over where the turning point can be found. I still say Vicksburg. ...   Fri Apr 13th, 2012 12:21 am

Knew he was working on a new trilogy that was supposed to be set in the Western Theater of the war. Thanks for the heads ...   Wed Apr 11th, 2012 03:11 am

This has been discussed in other threads and I totally agree. I look back at last year, when the 150th anniversary of Ft. Sumter came ...   Sat Apr 7th, 2012 02:07 am

There's another problem with the Fort Wagner comments is that the 2nd Battle of Fort Wagner took place July 18, 1863. That's the battle being ...   Mon Apr 2nd, 2012 05:38 am

There is an article on quartermasters in general in the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, which ...   Sat Mar 24th, 2012 06:39 am

Fair enough. Though given how many slaves actually flocked to Brown's cause, I'm not sure he was as inspirational as he wanted to be. We ...   Wed Mar 21st, 2012 01:46 am

Mark wrote: Ibuttery, I think the key though is when you said, "in today's terms." I think we need to be very cautious in labeling ...   Wed Mar 21st, 2012 12:33 am

Mark wrote: Thanks for the link Hellcat. As you your question about "eliteness," its for the same reason Civil War soldiers thought that being a ...   Mon Mar 19th, 2012 02:37 am

Try this Mark, I think this is where the site I found yesterday got it's info from.  The lance, another serious weapon in the hands of a ...   Sat Mar 17th, 2012 03:30 am

I was thinking it was going to be a Federal officer instead of Jackson. Richard H. Rush of the 6th Pennsylvania in fact. But looking at ...   Fri Mar 16th, 2012 03:24 am

Roanoke Island. Ball's Bluff. Big Bethel. Santa Rosa Island. New Bern. Fort Macon. Sewell's Point. Some lesser known battle that folks would never even think ...   Wed Mar 14th, 2012 12:47 am

I like some of the captions they give for the politcal cartoons. That series is about compromise based on the caption. Thry this next one, it's ...   Wed Mar 7th, 2012 12:35 am

Well you had said in the original post to try not elaborating too much and let the cartoons speak for themselves, Savez. Tried the only ...   Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 12:05 am

Ok, the first two if you haven't figured it out are supposed to be about the Mason Slidell Affair, I'd say better known today as ...   Fri Mar 2nd, 2012 10:03 pm

Gettysburger wrote: Hellcat wrote: Hmmm, that sounds like a certain set of counties in another state. Certainly is something I'm not certain I've heard of. ...   Fri Mar 2nd, 2012 12:16 am

To try Davis would have opened up a lot more than the question of secession. And there were those in the government who didn't want ...   Fri Mar 2nd, 2012 12:12 am

Hmmm, that sounds like a certain set of counties in another state. Certainly is something I'm not certain I've heard of. Or if I have ...   Wed Feb 29th, 2012 08:28 pm

I thought I'd seen that in a Harper's Weekly Mark. Going with Harper's Weekly here's three from the January 11, 1862 issue http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/january/brother-jonathan.jpg http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/january/brother-jonathan-john-bull.jpg http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/january/h1862p32_Picture6.jpg ...   Wed Feb 29th, 2012 12:03 am

Savez wrote: Maryland was not in rebellion. There was only threat of rebellion. Maryland had not seceded. I don't think Maryland could have joined the Confederacy. ...   Tue Feb 28th, 2012 11:48 pm

Hellcat wrote: True. We could probably come up with a list of movies, whether we like them all ourselves or not, of movies they could ...   Tue Feb 28th, 2012 11:41 pm

The arguement on Dances with Wolves was that it begins during the war which is why it was on it. Which I believe is more ...   Tue Feb 28th, 2012 05:10 am

BHR62 wrote: The Proclamation had political advantages to it no doubt about it.  But Lincoln had seen slavery first hand while he took his dads goods ...   Mon Feb 27th, 2012 09:21 pm

No, everyone knew it meant the Confederacy but worried it could be applied elsewhere. The abolitionists wanted it applied to the entire country. To think ...   Sun Feb 26th, 2012 04:13 am

I don't think it's selling him short by saying it was about politics. You yourself said he didn't include the slaves in the border states ...   Sat Feb 25th, 2012 10:09 pm

Lincoln told Horace Greely just weeks before finally issuing the Emanicpation that his goal was to preserve the union. If he could do that by ...   Sat Feb 25th, 2012 03:25 am