Geez Javal: The description of this particular forum is: Anything that doesn't fit anywhere else goes here. So that's not true? We've had topics on all sorts ...   Tue May 26th, 2009 03:46 pm

And Illinois Ole, I'm seeing a lot of those two plates down here lately. We in Texas give more than we get from the Feds and yet ...   Thu May 21st, 2009 07:02 pm

Good succinct explanation from the WSJ.  I have to say Texas is filling up with transplants lately and it's not just because the job market ...   Wed May 20th, 2009 04:42 pm

Iron Duke: Don't write CWT off completely, they hit a very low spot a few years ago about the time of N&S's zenith. But they ...   Fri May 15th, 2009 03:17 pm

Okay I did miss that quote, too bad. It does explain my intuition that something was amiss... Sort of like the Obama administration ;) ...   Thu May 14th, 2009 10:13 pm

All good points Ole and others but I was basing my comments on Harold's statment that assuming they could be brought to bear (not if ...   Thu May 14th, 2009 07:47 pm

I knew something was up when their map maker quit on them and they did not replace him. It's a shame this is happening ...   Thu May 14th, 2009 07:32 pm

Artillery would not have been effective in the face of an immediate counter-charge by the Federals but is that what would have happened had the ...   Wed May 13th, 2009 06:46 pm

A whole battery on LRT! I don't know, think of what Pelham did with just a section at Fredericksburg. My guess is the Federal ...   Tue May 12th, 2009 05:11 pm

Ole: Excellent observations and the scary thing is more people view the increasing power or the Federal government and the entitlement mentality at the local level as necessary for ...   Sun May 10th, 2009 05:40 pm

Four years ago the Democrats seemed on the verge of extinction with the far left fighting the Union-types and more moderates, apparently the far left ...   Fri May 8th, 2009 07:14 pm

Go to part 3 and 4 of that volume of the OR  and you will probably see the dispatches he sent leading up to the ...   Tue Apr 28th, 2009 09:10 pm

If you get into the raffles like Susan is talking about or giving book prizes you may have to incorporate in your state as a ...   Tue Apr 28th, 2009 07:33 pm

Vicxtoria: Rosecrans' Official Report for Chickamauga begins on this page: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fwaro%2Fwaro0050%2F&tif=00067.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DANU4519-0050 ...   Tue Apr 28th, 2009 07:28 pm

I would put Sears at the top but I would have Murfin ranked as a more important Antietam work than either the Gallagher essays or ...   Tue Apr 21st, 2009 09:25 pm

Whoah,  where is James Murfin's Gleam of Bayonets it was the definitive work until Sears came along? ...   Tue Apr 21st, 2009 07:50 pm

Doc: My GGGF was to the right of yours, fighting with the 8th LA. Could one of our ancestors have made Humiston's kids the most ...   Fri Apr 3rd, 2009 07:47 pm

Pvt Clewell: Grant was clearly apolitcal That might be too bold a statement. The truth probably lies between your and 5fish's opinions. But Grant knew ...   Fri Apr 3rd, 2009 07:43 pm