Welcome to the board. An ancestor of mine served in the La 9th during the ECH charge. When you mention his body being ...   Tue Oct 19th, 2010 12:36 pm

We let child molesters, wife beaters, etc. out of jail and live amongst us, why not animal abusers!!!!! What is this world coming to????? ...   Tue Oct 5th, 2010 10:16 pm

Similar to Doc J's responce - human interest stories, whether about the individual soldiers, loved ones back home or the politicians. Doc C ...   Fri Oct 1st, 2010 04:14 pm

Texas That's the rub. Who decides. One who I believe to be on the radical right might be concieved as on the left by ...   Sun Sep 12th, 2010 04:44 pm

Just a thought, not that I'm would even in a second contemplate genocide, what would this world be like if one could eradicate the far ...   Sun Sep 12th, 2010 12:41 pm

I picked it up for a paltry sum. Great antique show as always but was disappointed in that Christopher Mitchell (Pointe Clear, Alabama) who ...   Thu Sep 9th, 2010 01:32 am

Don't recall the movie but from your description of an elderly woman being killed by cross fire sounds like Judith Carter Henry, an 85-year-old widow ...   Mon Sep 6th, 2010 06:24 pm

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 year ...   Sun Sep 5th, 2010 12:08 am

Just got back from the Baltimore Antigue Show. Picked up General Sherman as College President. Contains letters/diaries of Sherman when he was LSU's ...   Fri Sep 3rd, 2010 12:06 am

CF No farbing about those guys. Great book. Not just about the cw but the current state of affairs in our present day country. ...   Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 10:56 pm

Continuing on the Lincoln thread, the National Health and Medicine has an exhibit on loan of the the bullet which killed him, skull bone fragments, ...   Sun Aug 29th, 2010 06:17 pm

Don't know if this will help but give it a go. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm ...   Thu Aug 19th, 2010 10:49 pm

Just finished my second season raising'em. Just wish the state would let me have just one cage for eatin. Doc C ...   Thu Aug 19th, 2010 02:27 am

An addition to this old topic. Many of the original Texans (Americans who migrated there in the early 19th century) did not want to ...   Fri Aug 13th, 2010 01:22 am

I've always wondered why a distant ancestor, Henry Hale Cone, was present at the Siege of Bexar (Dec 1835) but was not at the fatal ...   Fri Aug 13th, 2010 01:02 am

Frederick Douglass possibly the most influencial black man in history, no insult to the Rev. King. Doc C ...   Sun Aug 1st, 2010 06:01 pm

A tangential comment - just watched Gettysburg on the history channel this afternoon. What a crock. 1) led viewers to believe the battle was initiated ...   Thu Jul 29th, 2010 10:36 pm

J. K. Marshall, moved up from the 52nd NC to command Pettigrews Brigade, was killed at the Emmitsburg Rd. during the P-P-T charge. One ...   Sun Jul 4th, 2010 06:57 pm

The Irish (kelly's) Brigade was part of Hancocks Corp, Caldwell's Division, which rushed to the Wheatfield area on July 2 in order to aid Sickles ...   Sat Jul 3rd, 2010 05:41 pm

To bad Faulkner forgot about Trimble and Pettigrew. ...   Sat Jul 3rd, 2010 04:59 pm

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o’clock ...   Sat Jul 3rd, 2010 04:32 pm

Don't apologize it's a sign of weakness as per Nathan Brittles in the film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ...   Thu Jul 1st, 2010 08:41 pm

Regardless of his age, Johnny Depp. ...   Wed Jun 30th, 2010 10:50 pm

One of my favorites for a number of reasons. A great deal of the filming was done in Natchitoches, La close to where I ...   Wed Jun 30th, 2010 10:41 pm

One more time, Sickles. ...   Mon Jun 28th, 2010 10:34 pm

Agreed, it's in the eye of the beholder. One of my favorite sites is the view from the Antietam visitors center east toward the ...   Mon Jun 28th, 2010 10:33 pm

A movie about the life of Sickles would be very interesting - politics, war, sex, what a great trilogy. Doc C ...   Mon Jun 28th, 2010 01:52 am

Great pics but beg to differ on the underwhelming nature of Antietam. The sunken road there never ceases to amaze me both visually and ...   Mon Jun 28th, 2010 01:47 am

As an aside, when asked (1860's) how long it would take for slavery to be finished and the black man assimilated into American society, Lincoln ...   Tue Jun 15th, 2010 02:04 am

Was there the weekend before Memorial Day. Couldn't get into the museum but enjoyed the theatre and the Petersen House. Didn't bother me ...   Mon May 31st, 2010 11:22 pm

Back from Orange Beach, best time to go before the heat and crowds. No oil but that depends on the winds. As of ...   Thu May 13th, 2010 10:39 pm

As Sgt. Friday would say "Just the facts" ...   Thu May 13th, 2010 11:48 am

A distant ancestor of mine, Franklin Buchanan, was with Perry when he first landed in Japan. ...   Fri May 7th, 2010 03:05 am

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People also fail to understand how much damage Ivan did to Mobile, Pensacola, etc, the year before Katrina. My townhouse in Gulf Shores, Alabama ...   Mon May 3rd, 2010 12:50 am

This could be worse than katrina. As the news media has reported, La is the biggest seafood supplier in the lower 48 states. ...   Mon May 3rd, 2010 12:47 am

Doc J I'm sure your Tennessee got hit hard but my homeland of La is going to be devastated. If the oil slick comes in ...   Sun May 2nd, 2010 11:40 pm

What the hell, if you're already in Norfolk might as well cross the lower bay bridge and come to my neck of the woods on ...   Thu Apr 29th, 2010 11:58 am

If you're in the Va Beach area check the Mariners Museum in Newport News where the Monitor turret is located. If you're coming down ...   Thu Apr 29th, 2010 01:06 am

Wish to pose a question. I realize that both theatres had their share of horror. However, was it because that the enemy was ...   Wed Apr 28th, 2010 09:20 pm