OH MY GOD, JOANIE!!!! I think my heart actually stopped for a minute with you referencing McPherson in your argument, given our past exchanges on ...   Thu Feb 7th, 2008 02:08 pm

Grant also had that thing about refusing to retreat or backtrack that also proved costly to his men. It is almost as if ...   Thu Feb 7th, 2008 04:18 am

Wow. There's a lot of stuff going on here. Mary Todd Lincoln's 'butcher' quote came during the seige of Petersburg, but I think you have to ...   Wed Feb 6th, 2008 08:17 pm

I was waiting for that one, Joanie. You know, years ago, when I was in college, Pickett's Charge featured 15,000 troops. Now current scholarship estimates Pickett ...   Tue Feb 5th, 2008 10:50 pm

Gordon Rhea is my source for just about anything on the Overland campaign. Should Grant have fought at Cold Harbor? Rhea writes: "Grant has been roundly criticized ...   Tue Feb 5th, 2008 08:51 pm

HEY!!! How'd you get that picture of me???? ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2008 05:40 pm

Ole wrote: 'Gotta get to three before you get into college words." Not sure about that, Ole. I swear my wife's southern accent makes 'dog' sound ...   Mon Jan 28th, 2008 11:27 pm

Thanks to the hard work of Texas Defender I pretty much determined last summer that my uncle's father, William H. Clewell, served in Co. A ...   Thu Jan 24th, 2008 09:22 pm

Joanie, I don't believe for a minute my waters run deep enough to be over your head. ...   Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 03:43 am

Wow. A whole company of Doc C's. :D ...   Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 03:31 am

Joanie, Do you talk about the Civil War on any NASCAR sites? ...   Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 01:32 am

Oh, I don't know. Cold and insipid is most refreshing when it's 95 degrees outside. or if there's a pizza in front of you. Or NASCAR. ...   Sun Jan 20th, 2008 11:09 am

Ha. Got me. On second thought, maybe it's better if it's not rush hour. Or maybe when pedestrians are trying to cross. Come to think ...   Fri Jan 18th, 2008 03:24 pm

Imagine Trafalgar or Leicester Squares at rush hour. Then you have an idea of what NASCAR's about. I guess. ...   Fri Jan 18th, 2008 02:40 pm

JOANIE!!!! You're back!!!! It's been so long since you last posted I thought you were hibernating. Well, there's always the NFL playoffs to fill the void, you ...   Fri Jan 18th, 2008 03:35 am

Bald spots are low maintenance ...   Wed Jan 16th, 2008 03:18 am

Roger, Tar Heels? Tarheels? OK, here's the deal. When I came to North Carolina as a budding journalist 31 years ago, I was told that 'Tar Heels' ...   Thu Jan 10th, 2008 11:24 pm

Getting back to fossil/biofuels for a moment, I heard something on the radio the other day about a competition to build carburetors that get 100 ...   Thu Jan 10th, 2008 02:07 pm

Fan, Just curious. Have you checked out the roundtable yet? Attended a meeting? Enjoyed it? ...   Wed Jan 9th, 2008 09:53 am

And food. Let me see if I'm getting the big picture. Research into biofuels is raising the price of corn and wheat to produce fuels that ...   Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 07:50 pm

I'm guessing that the slower pace was always there in the pre-war, under-industrialized south. Climate, no doubt, played a major role in slowing everybody's social ...   Sat Dec 22nd, 2007 07:23 pm

What if there had been no civil war and therefore no need for reconstruction? Would not the deep south states, almost exclusively agrarian and devoid ...   Sat Dec 22nd, 2007 06:36 pm

The worst that can probably be said of Lee is that he enjoyed flirting. In Elizabeth Brown Pryor's book, 'Reading the Man,' she writes: "The ladies ...   Wed Dec 19th, 2007 01:57 am

Don, I finished the book a few months ago, and while your inquiry didn't ring any bells with me, I raced back to the book to ...   Tue Dec 18th, 2007 11:34 pm

I am moving the McPherson discussion back to this thread, where it belongs. Keep in mind the pullquote I used from the N&S story came near ...   Tue Dec 18th, 2007 12:07 am

'All data must be recognized and accounted for. One cannot set aside data that one does not like, or arbitrarily dismiss it as an anomaly.' Unless ...   Mon Dec 17th, 2007 11:42 pm

Heard where Dan Fogelberg died Sunday of prostate cancer. He was 56. My wife and I had his song, 'Longer,' played at our wedding. Considering that ...   Mon Dec 17th, 2007 11:38 pm

To quote a member of this board who shall remain anonymous, "Geez." Being a little harsh on the boy, no? "I wonder, if he weren't writing about ...   Sat Dec 15th, 2007 07:05 pm

Uh-oh. Do you know me? ...   Sat Dec 15th, 2007 03:03 am

I don't know why women don't attend our meetings. Well, maybe I do. We're mostly strategy and tactics guys who like to walk all over ...   Sat Dec 15th, 2007 01:51 am

CF, The Civil War Roundtable that I belong to is small, with about 20 active members. We usually meet the third Thursday of each month in ...   Sat Dec 15th, 2007 12:09 am

Has anybody seen the latest issue of North & South (Vol. 10, No. 4)? There's a short study three-page study by Joanie's favorite historian, James McPherson, ...   Thu Dec 13th, 2007 11:57 pm

Sigh. If only more folks had your insight, Dixie. ...   Thu Dec 13th, 2007 11:36 pm

I go to several Civil War shows a year, and also visit the Horse Soldier in Gettysburg when I am there. The LeMat is indeed ...   Thu Dec 13th, 2007 11:31 pm

I love college football, but don't have a clue about the BCS. There's a good story in this week's Sports Illustrated about the need for ...   Sat Dec 8th, 2007 12:37 pm

Oh, so NOW you tell me. ...   Sat Dec 8th, 2007 12:24 pm

Doc C You are correct about the M-D line taking a southerly heading when it hits Delaware. But the M-D line also serves as a cultural ...   Wed Dec 5th, 2007 01:56 pm