I actually liked "The March." Read it twice. If Doctorow didn't do his research, I'd be surprised. Found nothing in there out of believable bounds. Ole ...   Wed Apr 29th, 2009 01:17 am

Send in the clowns; don't bother, they're here. Ole ...   Wed Apr 29th, 2009 01:07 am

Oh oh. It would seem that we've just addicted another. We really ought not do that. It is immoral, isn't it? Ole ...   Mon Apr 27th, 2009 08:53 pm

What evidence do you have to disprove what I wrote?  "Rings" does not qualify. It isn't required to disprove what you wrote because you didn't really answer ...   Mon Apr 27th, 2009 08:49 pm

They are somewhere back there, Reb. When they disappear, it's usually for a while and because they are overly busy. Most will be back. Ole ...   Sun Apr 26th, 2009 10:39 pm

Welcome, Scarlett. I do hope you know what kind of society you've decided to join. You'll find it gobbling up all your spare time and ...   Sun Apr 26th, 2009 10:36 pm

Still too wet to dig in these parts. Maybe this weekend. Ole ...   Wed Apr 22nd, 2009 06:06 pm

Great link HankC. Many thanks. Ole ...   Mon Apr 20th, 2009 05:30 pm

Going with Bama here. The range of the rifled musket had some effect, but not so much as has been proposed. There were few battlefieds ...   Sun Apr 19th, 2009 01:27 am

Thst'd gonns tske a bit more time than I have. Film at 11. ...   Sat Apr 18th, 2009 04:16 am

Uncharacteristic silence. Will leave the responses to kinder, gentler people. Ole ...   Fri Apr 17th, 2009 06:37 pm

I seem to recall a thread about hogs post battle eating slain troops.  Got that right J Harold. Don't know if that was the practice around ...   Fri Apr 17th, 2009 06:22 pm

  Dow weed and brush killer.   ...   Thu Apr 16th, 2009 11:35 pm

Are the Confederate soldiers worthy of our respect and honor for their contribution to their region, their sacrifice, their suffering and deaths for a cause ...   Thu Apr 16th, 2009 05:40 pm

X = overserved. ...   Sat Apr 11th, 2009 11:32 pm

Probably not, but it was very Jeffersonian of him, if he did say that. Somewhere in the past 200 years, Jefferson's idyllic vision of an agrarian ...   Sat Apr 11th, 2009 09:13 pm

Believe I heard that Benson Bobrick is going to discuss his book tonight on BookTV. Check your local times and listings. I'd heard it was ...   Sat Apr 11th, 2009 02:49 pm

Thanks for coming back on that brett. I thought the exchange was more than civil, but I'm quite old and can't remember how to cite ...   Thu Apr 9th, 2009 03:44 pm

Not very likely, wordpix. There were like 23 farms there. Most of them are named ... Rhea field, Jones field. Pittsburg Landing was just that, a ...   Thu Apr 9th, 2009 03:33 pm

Jackson was an overrated putz. Ole ...   Thu Apr 9th, 2009 01:56 am

There's nothing liberal or conservative about it.Amen, brother. I'm often amazed that people with whom I'm in 100 percent accord on matters of the civil ...   Wed Apr 8th, 2009 12:47 am

Thomas assails the center while Hooker, on the right, makes a looping roundhouse. Sherman is ineffective on the left, but the plan is coming together. Seems ...   Mon Apr 6th, 2009 10:58 pm

See some smoke, 5fish? Or toking some? Meade was a lot like Bragg. His fuse was very short and few, if any, of his subordinates actually ...   Mon Apr 6th, 2009 10:50 pm

One might also go to Brett Schulte's web site wherein Bobrick's book gets a scathing review. Bobrick commented on the review and some remarkably pleasant ...   Mon Apr 6th, 2009 04:34 pm

The books are full of dumb-*** ideas that never could come to fruition. Lee, on his way to Sharpsburg, expected a groundswell of Marylanders to ...   Sat Apr 4th, 2009 10:18 pm

Get up in a bad mood, Johan? When it comes time to eat, I don't much care if the BBQ sauce is period. Me be ...   Sat Apr 4th, 2009 07:18 pm

One doesn't get to be a Lt. General without some weighty politician carrying the ball. I just don't see Grant playing that card. He got Lincoln's ...   Sat Apr 4th, 2009 05:26 pm

Thank you bloody bob for pointing out that I've just wasted the last 40 years by leafing through books. Lemme see what we have here ..... ...   Sat Apr 4th, 2009 02:00 am

As I opined, they might well have been issued both. Help me out here, are the calibers the same? In August, 1862, the supply of ...   Wed Apr 1st, 2009 05:53 pm

Early volunteers were issued whatever smoothbore muskets were available in state and Federal aresenals. These were replaced as Enfields were acquired and Springfields were manufactured. Some ...   Tue Mar 31st, 2009 12:40 am