The arguement of the tactics being reversed doesn't seem to me as good an arguement as there is the question as to whether McClellan had ...   Thu Aug 19th, 2010 02:04 am

Well The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm, edited by W. Springer Menge and J August Shimrak, has quite a bit of what you want. ...   Tue Aug 17th, 2010 03:47 am

I don't think so. To make the claim Antietam/Sharpsburg would have been the major battle because of the Gettysburg Address not happening brings up the ...   Tue Aug 17th, 2010 02:28 am

Recently I read Easy Company Soldier by Sgt. Don Malrkey with Bob Welch and Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander. ...   Mon Aug 16th, 2010 08:35 am

I may be wrong but I believe when I looked at Foote's trilogy back in high school back in the early '90s the bibliography listed ...   Mon Aug 16th, 2010 04:42 am

I recall that Everett sent a to Lincoln soon after the dedication in which he said he wished his speech would be remembered as long ...   Sun Aug 15th, 2010 03:08 am

Thanks javal. Might have been from here I got the link, no longer remember where I originally got it. It is annoying, though, that you ...   Sun Aug 8th, 2010 07:56 pm

I need a little help trying to locate, or relocate, a website. I'm thinking it's US Regulars Archive. What I know for certain is that ...   Sun Aug 8th, 2010 09:29 am

Don't know how similar they may be but you might like these two: Blue-eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw ...   Wed Jan 6th, 2010 05:43 am

Is it "get there firstest with the mostest" or "git thar furstest with the mostest?" Davis uses the latter, and again some of it sounds ...   Wed Jan 6th, 2010 04:35 am

Ok, I'm not out to make fun of anyone from the war, so please don't think that's what I'm doing here. I have Burke Davis's ...   Tue Jan 5th, 2010 09:25 am

About the post itself. I had looked up online to try and find out but all I could get was the same info KJ3553 provided ...   Sun Sep 20th, 2009 07:10 pm

Before I get started let me say I wasn't sure exactly which category would be appropriate so I figured the general talk might be best. ...   Sat Sep 19th, 2009 11:12 pm

Ok, the following is from The War of the Rebellion:  a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, volume 29, Part ...   Sun Jun 24th, 2007 06:25 am

Sorry for the double reply folks. ...   Wed Jun 20th, 2007 08:37 am

Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot as far as the title of the thread goes. It was supposed to read A confidential letter to the ...   Wed Jun 20th, 2007 08:36 am

The following letter is from the appendix of the Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, pages 552 and 553.                     HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,                                                                 December 6, 1862   HIS EXCELLENCY ...   Wed Jun 20th, 2007 07:35 am

Well, I know this isn't related to the original topic of this thread, but I thought I'd post it here rather than open a new ...   Wed Feb 21st, 2007 02:26 am

Kent, did you get a page that says FortuneCity in the upper left preceeded by what looks like half a gear and three dots with a ...   Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 05:23 am

Ok, I'm being a little lazy here and not fetching some of my resources on this one (probably end up doing so after I post ...   Fri Jan 19th, 2007 05:18 am

Well, Ive been checking through various volumes of The War of the Rebellion without any results towards Johnston being hit by friendly fire. Found a ...   Wed Jan 17th, 2007 08:59 pm

David White wrote: I don't doubt that ants were an issue but they were not Fire Ants, which were  introduced to this country from Brazil when ...   Tue Jan 16th, 2007 08:57 pm

Alamance Battleground. Spent a lot of good times there in my youth. Oh wait, you meant Civil War battlegrounds, not pre-Revolutionary. I've visited Petersburg, Fort Morgan ...   Sun Jan 14th, 2007 08:12 am

Sorry Kentucky, the only bet I'd make would be you being right. ...   Sun Jan 14th, 2007 07:39 am

Doc C wrote:  Again as previously stated, what's the goal of war - to kill the other person, to me nothing chivalrous about that. Doc ...   Sat Jan 13th, 2007 07:01 am

Intresting letter. I knew trading did go on but I'd always thought it was tobacco for coffee. This shows they traded a lot more than ...   Fri Jan 12th, 2007 06:38 am

I think that's what's really nice about this section of the forums, we can be reminded that "it is all hell." Without any veterans around ...   Fri Jan 12th, 2007 06:30 am

Jeremy, in addition to what's being discussed here, you might want to  check out Civil War Blunders by Clint Johnson. He touches on this subject ...   Fri Jan 12th, 2007 06:11 am

I think, sadly, that most folks today only know of the Battle of Mobile Bay as being the place where Farragut is supposed to have exclaimed ...   Fri Jan 12th, 2007 05:36 am

Ok, so we all know about the Battle of Gettysburg. The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac clashed at the town ...   Fri Jan 12th, 2007 03:38 am

A few years ago I purchased something called The Civil War Collection. Rather than being a book on the war, it's a box that aptly ...   Thu Jan 11th, 2007 06:28 am

I'm not sure I exactly have one particular favorite sunject about the war, though there are some things I do tend to look for more ...   Thu Jan 11th, 2007 04:15 am

I'll have to see if I can find that book, ole. The navies of the war intrest me, probably because we tend to focus more ...   Wed Jan 10th, 2007 06:46 am

Speaking of producer Pen Densham, (see "Hereafter' article) the War epic "The Last Full Measure" is in active development and scheduled TBA to shoot in ...   Tue Jan 9th, 2007 07:44 am

If the list I have actually gave a date for the battles in the list, then I'd try to do that for ya, Cleburne. However, ...   Tue Jan 9th, 2007 07:28 am

I'm not sure that's what they mean, Cleburne. I just did something I should have done in my initial post, checked my books. Got a copy ...   Sun Jan 7th, 2007 03:24 am

Well, I guess for me at least the question is kinda two fold as my birthday is a little over a week before Christmas. So ...   Sat Jan 6th, 2007 07:01 am

Sorry, I did a quick search for the demo and that's some of what I found. As for your question about any suggestions I might ...   Fri Jan 5th, 2007 06:48 am

Don't know if these are what you're looking for, but try these: http://www.download.com/Sid-Meier-s-Antietam-demo/3640-7562_4-1462695.html?sb=2&v=1 http://www.download.com/Sid-Meier-s-Antietam-demo/3000-7562_4-1462695.html http://www.actiontrip.com/files/demos/sidmeiersantietam.phtml http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=4534 http://www.gamestats.com/objects/012/012668/ Personally, the turn based description with video almost sounds like Robert E. Lee: Civil ...   Thu Jan 4th, 2007 08:03 pm

I've actually read about the Battle of Portland Harbor something like three or four years ago. Extremely minor as far as the war goes, but ...   Thu Jan 4th, 2007 06:46 am