Mark wrote: Thanks for the link. Does anyone know what the ceremony ended up looking like? I would be very curious to see how much ...   Mon Feb 21st, 2011 03:59 pm

wardenerd wrote: hey I just follow the thread.  I did not take it over.  I think Gettysburg was the licnpin battle of the war with ...   Tue Jan 25th, 2011 01:24 am

jsalerno wrote: Lynyrd Skynyrd sang Sweet Home Alabama not The Allman Brothers When you are trollin and slingin BS, facts don't much matter... after all, one southern ...   Mon Jan 24th, 2011 12:27 am

Albert, you and Hellcat have both made excellent posts. to continue in that vein, after most wars, solders are not the ones doing the hating ...   Sun Jan 23rd, 2011 03:11 am

Albert Sailhorst wrote: I think this is a good "jumping off point" in addressing the intial question. It's Shelby Foote's quote from the Civil War" ...   Fri Jan 21st, 2011 02:12 pm

j harold 587 wrote: Bama, I know you can take care of yourself, but here is a big bucket of troll food!! ;)  Thanks, maybe I ...   Thu Jan 20th, 2011 07:33 pm

I should know better than to feed trolls... ...   Thu Jan 20th, 2011 02:04 pm

Barlow wrote: I haven't had this much fun since Neal Young sang "Southern Man" and the Allman Brothers sang, "Sweet Home Alabama...   Being from the North, ...   Thu Jan 20th, 2011 03:20 am

Barlow wrote: Let me count the ways: 1.  When Notre Dame plays Alabama, I always root for Notre Dame.  North trumps South Always in sports 2.  When ...   Fri Jan 14th, 2011 07:56 pm

My understanding is that bef ore the centenial, the feds urged the term "civil war" for uniformity. The feds are real big on uniformity... and ...   Wed Jan 12th, 2011 01:37 am

To my way of thinking, americans are and were at that time free to vote or not. If they chose not, that is thier business ...   Mon Jan 10th, 2011 08:31 pm

HankC wrote: Texas Defender wrote:  In addition, your statement that they weren't interested in: "Bowing" to the ballot box (Seen in your statement on 06 ...   Mon Jan 10th, 2011 02:47 am

Well said, TD.... Wish I had your ability to place a paragraph worth of ideas into a single sentence! ...   Fri Jan 7th, 2011 08:44 pm

I watched it from beginning to end. It was an illinformed hatchet job on Lee. He was described by Prior after the war in Lexington ...   Thu Jan 6th, 2011 07:43 pm

A question was asked about what the war shold have been called if not a civil war. The most descriptive term I have ever read ...   Thu Jan 6th, 2011 04:59 pm

In broad terms, the definition depends on the winner. had the ACW gone in favor of the south, the war waould have been the 2nd American ...   Wed Jan 5th, 2011 06:58 pm

A kindle. I think I am really gonna like it ...   Tue Dec 28th, 2010 04:37 pm

My 2011 plans will be infuenced 100% by my wife's health. did not get a 2010 trip, may not get a '11 trip either. ...   Sat Nov 13th, 2010 05:25 pm

The way fire, EMS, and other life/safety issues are addressed re the casio and the bourough seem to me to continue to be local situations. ...   Wed Oct 27th, 2010 06:51 pm

Mark wrote: Could you provide a primary source for this? I've looked all over and I cannot find anything. My guess is that many of ...   Fri Oct 15th, 2010 03:20 pm

I am so sorry. I never met her, and talked to her on the phone only once, but I well remember that phone call for ...   Mon Oct 11th, 2010 12:41 am

TimK wrote: I stand by my words. I do not forgive because he wins games and scores touchdowns. I forgive because, as I said before, ...   Mon Oct 4th, 2010 06:29 pm

Ole, Me too! I have killed a lot of animals, but I ate each and every one of them... well except for the ones that my wife, ...   Sun Oct 3rd, 2010 05:55 pm

could not begin to answer this one.. anything CS I suppose... And yet that is inaccurate as my intrests would be CS soliders, not necessarily government ...   Sun Oct 3rd, 2010 05:48 pm

Have several ancestors on my mother's side, thru her mother. An gg uncle was killed at Petersburg. He was shot in the knee and died ...   Mon Sep 27th, 2010 04:36 pm

Is there no end to the snakes in this world? ...   Tue Sep 21st, 2010 01:30 pm

Texas Defender wrote: Cleburne Fan-   While Terry Jones didn't burn a Koran as he was threatening to do, there are plenty of news stories of ...   Sun Sep 12th, 2010 03:57 pm

I have never seen anything like it before ...   Sun Sep 12th, 2010 03:51 pm

Yea me too! ...   Sun Sep 12th, 2010 02:59 am

Doc C wrote: Hot boudin, Cold couscous, let's go Tigers Push Push Push Start of the season. Also, Let's Go Yankees. My favorite time of the ...   Sun Sep 5th, 2010 01:42 am

Hellcat wrote: Actually, it wasn't Brokaw who first called that generation the Greatest Generation. The term was first used by William Strauss and Neil Howe ...   Sun Sep 5th, 2010 01:41 am

javal1 wrote: And of course there are mutants like myself who would love to tromp the field during the day and visit the casino at ...   Fri Sep 3rd, 2010 07:58 pm

Hellcat wrote: I didn't say I bvelieved that was the case, just that it would be interesting to find out that happened. Though it would ...   Wed Aug 25th, 2010 05:18 pm

I'll look for it ...   Wed Aug 25th, 2010 03:10 pm

Hellcat, It could be possible, but I doubt it. Most of the flags that were loaned out or "borrowed" were to prominent folks in and around ...   Tue Aug 24th, 2010 01:45 pm

Uniion flags captured by Confederate units were stored in a warehouse in Richmond. Sadly, they were destroyed in the burning of Richmond at war's end. ...   Mon Aug 23rd, 2010 09:04 pm

Captured Confederate flags have suffered the following fates: 1. Sent to the war department and given a capture number stenciled somewhere on the flag. These were returned ...   Mon Aug 23rd, 2010 09:01 pm

What are the Sons of the Civil War? ...   Fri Aug 20th, 2010 12:19 am

I can find little to like about the movie, but I did enjoy the book. The two share only a title IMHO. They are completely ...   Thu Aug 19th, 2010 02:24 pm

I have a copy of a letter (my cousin owns the original) written by my ggg uncle who was wounded at Petersburg ..leg wound... and ...   Thu Aug 19th, 2010 02:19 pm