The title is "The Civil War Battlefield guide"it is like 20 bucks and put out by the Conservation fund. Read more at www.conservationfund.org ken ...   Wed Aug 27th, 2008 09:52 am

So Scofield slips away..at least Hood's army is intact..and just the movement nrth is going to make the federals come looking for him...then it become ...   Mon Aug 25th, 2008 11:26 am

Intense stuff ,- and if it gives just one person second thoughts before they do something stupid....   ken ...   Mon Aug 25th, 2008 11:21 am

I feel your pain on that one Dixie.  Sometimes getting to go to historical sites can be like pulling teeth.  Whenever I go anywhere, whoever ...   Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 11:42 am

No Dixie ? Wow Im surprised....Its well worth the trip :) ken ...   Thu Aug 21st, 2008 11:35 am

Great looking site I think Ill check the book out thanks' ken ...   Thu Aug 21st, 2008 11:34 am

Very lucky...  I used to go that often then the darn real world interfered... :)   Ken ...   Mon Aug 18th, 2008 11:22 am

Welcome back it seems like you had a great time ( in gettysburg how could you not :) )I know what you mean about ...   Fri Aug 8th, 2008 09:56 am

Those are some really cool animations it really helps one visualize the battles... ken ...   Wed Aug 6th, 2008 09:42 am

I think it just tried to do too much and in so doing didnt give certain things the depth of explanation that would have made ...   Tue Aug 5th, 2008 09:41 am

AS Johnston seems very comperable to Union general John Reynolds, alot of potential, not a tremendous amount actually achieved on the battlefield and both permanently ...   Fri Aug 1st, 2008 09:34 am

Welcome Angel - I think you'll find here many others with your same interests and enough to determine that 1 you are not crazy or ...   Thu Jul 31st, 2008 09:50 am

A farmhouse on taneytown road..thats pretty sweet how long do you get to stay there? KEn ...   Wed Jul 30th, 2008 11:07 am

I think one of the missions of the new visitor center was to place Gettysburg in the context of the entire war and the war ...   Wed Jul 30th, 2008 11:00 am

Cant do any worse than those we have running for office currently...     ken ...   Tue Jul 29th, 2008 09:32 am

Gettysburg the movie was originally planned as a multipart tv movie I know it got edited for the big screen (though it is like impossible ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 08:16 pm

A couple of really cool roller coasters at Hershey Park last year...There is like a million of them there so I don't remember the names....I ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 06:34 pm

stonewall here...Not a bad thing except that part about being shot by your own men..   ken ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 02:56 pm

Ageod's gameicks butt though current constraints (a wacky 3yr old) prevent me from playing it that much....   ken ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 11:20 am

Great stuff thanks for the info...   ken ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 11:17 am

The PCN Battlewalks are also great for overviews of certain areas...   ken ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 11:15 am

The DVD is entitled "Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign" and the web site you can order it from WWW.witnessinghistoryonline.net .    .there ...   Mon Jul 28th, 2008 11:11 am

Get the DVD based on KMB's book  and Wittenburg and Petruzzi's book...one Continious Fight for a real taste of the Retreat fro Gettysburg...awesome stuff...   ken ...   Sun Jul 27th, 2008 11:55 am

You had to mention Slocum...didn't you  :-)  one of my pet peeves of the battle was his bizarro conduct on that first day.  It seems that ...   Sun Jul 27th, 2008 11:54 am

How did the reenactment go?   was it packed?  IIRC the weather was pretty hot (as it usually is in July)..   Ken ...   Sun Jul 27th, 2008 11:46 am

Have a great trip Pam...The Trailhead Map is a very good one with all of the markers and monuments noted...The Gettysburg Expedition guide comes with ...   Sun Jul 27th, 2008 11:42 am

Unless of course you had the Jackson of the 7 days campaign.....:)   What units would have been available for such an attack if one was ...   Thu Jun 26th, 2008 11:37 am

Great stuff..thanks...One of my big problems is not so much the aborted attempt to take cemetary hill...but rather the failure to push Johnson's men toward ...   Tue Jun 24th, 2008 09:11 pm

Welcome Mike  ...   Nice to have another long islander here....As far as blame for Culp's Hill..Lots of blame on that one Ewell could have pushed ...   Fri Jun 20th, 2008 11:39 am

And just a suggestion...always cross refence Wikepedia references...just to ensure accuracy.... ken ...   Thu Apr 12th, 2007 11:55 am

exactly....if nothing else it gives us fuel for discusions... ken ...   Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 09:59 am

I actually worked with a friend who was a living historian in a field hospital.  I have to say people including kids were fascinated with ...   Wed Mar 21st, 2007 09:57 am

I agree I dont much se the point...but then again my wife doesnt see much the point of my interest in the civil war...hahaha ken ...   Tue Mar 20th, 2007 09:42 am

and in the summer plenty of tick repellant.... ken ...   Sat Mar 17th, 2007 09:55 am

holy cow  thats horrible...My best wishes and prayers to him and his family...I cant believe there wasnt enough interest in take command 2nd manassas..particularly when ...   Thu Mar 15th, 2007 09:43 am

which is kind of ironic in that Caldwell's attack into the wheatfield with his division was done in a timely effiecient and effective manner  (but ...   Wed Mar 14th, 2007 09:41 am