TD, I'm not sure their the same man. I went further into the Wisconsin Geneology Trails site and went to the 8th Wisconsin. Eugene Perham ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 08:49 pm

Ok, the Wisconsin Geneology Trails link above ain't working when I click it. Try this link and go to Jacobs to Perham http://genealogytrails.com/wis/1stWIHeavyArtilleryReg.html ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 08:34 pm

TD, the first time I did the search I just searched for a Eugene Perham from Wisconsin without selecting a function and it came up ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 07:43 pm

I checked the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database. All they say for his record is this: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldier_id=6cb74ec2-dc7a-df11-bf36-b8ac6f5d926a. Now according to this he was just ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 07:18 pm

Would some of those sources happen to be a game? I can't rmember if I even saw the title of the game, maybe Modern War ...   Fri Feb 1st, 2013 05:52 am

Did anyone attend this symposium? If so, can you tell us about it? ...   Thu Jan 31st, 2013 06:11 pm

Video is good. I got to thinking about this question and thinking back to when I was younger. Some of the museums that stick out ...   Wed Jan 30th, 2013 02:21 pm

Edited out cause I don't want to start a fight. ...   Tue Jan 29th, 2013 04:40 pm

I haven't yet found anything in either source, Mark. To be honest I haven't yet pulled out my copy of The American Illiad as I ...   Mon Jan 28th, 2013 09:29 pm

After SC seceded I'd say the war was inevitable. We've discussed in the forums before the attack on Fort Pickens in January 1861, http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/forums/forum1/3139-1.html (why ...   Mon Jan 28th, 2013 07:57 am

You know, I'd have to check either The War of the Rebellion or The American Iliad on that. Probably The War of the Rebellion as ...   Sat Jan 26th, 2013 02:32 pm

Graham Smith's Civil War Weapons states this on the Gatling on page 236: In practice the mechanism was unwieldy and unreliable, and the Gatling wasn't adopted ...   Sat Jan 26th, 2013 11:46 am

Why wouldn't Lee have tried the Maryland Campaign against Grant, bolaman1975? ...   Fri Jan 18th, 2013 08:34 am

Still doing research on this. I did come up with this, http://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2009/01/ezra-carman-stonewall-jackson-and.html. I did find the article mentioned there, http://www.americanheritage.com/content/stonewall-jackson%E2%80%99s-deadly-calm. Also I read Dr. Lowry's ...   Thu Jan 17th, 2013 10:02 am

Ok so a month ago I picked up Dr. Thomas P Lowry's The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. With Christmas ...   Wed Jan 16th, 2013 08:07 am

Yeah, I did manage to find that site, think it was before I found the video I posted. I also found this site, http://local.trainz.com/articles/general.html, which ...   Fri Jan 11th, 2013 06:02 pm

I managed to find this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXGe9m1lk8. It appears to have the picture from page 12 of the PDF I linked to above, but the ...   Fri Jan 11th, 2013 11:11 am

Ok, this makes things even more confusing, http://home.earthlink.net/~khsociety/general/general.pdf. At the top of page 12 is what's claimed to be an early 20th century postcard image ...   Fri Jan 11th, 2013 10:44 am

If it had been Jackson instead of Lee I wonder how well that would have gone over. ...   Thu Jan 3rd, 2013 09:32 am

While true, it is still something that is an unhappy event when you read it. It would be a different matter to read a soldier's ...   Tue Jan 1st, 2013 04:27 pm

I was going to look through Randall Bedwell's War Is All Hell but then I remembered this letter I posted back in 2007 in the ...   Tue Jan 1st, 2013 03:16 am

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker Major General Joe Hooker Yeah, I find that one funny because of who said it. ...   Tue Jan 1st, 2013 03:05 am

No, I hadn't seen that image. That adds more to my confusion, I'm afraid, cause it's red and black with yellow and gold detailing. I ...   Mon Dec 24th, 2012 09:59 pm

I have a quick question. Does anyone know what the original colors of the locomotive the General were? I've been looking at model trains on ...   Mon Dec 24th, 2012 06:19 pm

You're right about Lincoln's campaign being saved by Federal victories in 1864. I know I've read the fall of Atlanta and the capture of Mobile ...   Fri Dec 21st, 2012 07:15 pm

I'll have to look it up but I thought McClellan's intention was to just end the war and make peace with the South, not whether ...   Fri Dec 21st, 2012 12:20 pm

Ok, so why wasn't Davis hung? You said had he been caught between April 15th and July 7th he would have also been hung. Well ...   Thu Dec 20th, 2012 02:09 pm

Something I just thought about. There could have been a reason he was slow, a political reason. Perhaps he was setting himself up for the ...   Thu Dec 20th, 2012 01:55 pm

Bit off track here so please bare with me. I've gotta look it up, believe the book is My Brother's Keeper, but I seem to ...   Tue Dec 18th, 2012 12:09 pm

I don't know about incompetent, but he certainly did some things that I would say made him more ineffective towards winning the war. You have ...   Tue Dec 18th, 2012 08:53 am

It seems fairly well known that Lincoln wanted Meade to follow up his success at Gettysburg. Had he done so could he have ended the ...   Fri Dec 14th, 2012 09:09 am

Ok, I tried this recipe again yesterday, this time using leftover chicken from a couple nights before. Chicken had been done with a little rosemary, ...   Sat Dec 1st, 2012 06:05 am

It's easier to search online as you can just enter your search parameters. In this case I just did 139th Pennsylvania. Came up with 20 ...   Sun Nov 25th, 2012 03:08 am

Ok, so it's now two days after Thanksgiving, the leftover period. Time for turkey sandwiches, turkey noodle soup, potato pancakes, and any other leftovers folks ...   Sat Nov 24th, 2012 02:55 pm

You might be interested in these from the War of the Rebellion. This first one is from Series I Volume 27. It starts at the ...   Sat Nov 24th, 2012 11:05 am

I believe if you check down in the movies sub-section of the Civil War Entertainment: Books, Movies, Music & Art section tha you will find ...   Sat Nov 24th, 2012 10:19 am

Why do I here cheesy music appropriate to a '70s or '80s adult theater when I think of music by Philip Barton Key? Though that ...   Thu Nov 22nd, 2012 07:25 pm

Were you pulling our leg Captain Crow)(90 ...   Tue Nov 20th, 2012 11:08 am

Only new thing I can come up with is a few years old now. Bob Dylan's Cross th Green Mountain that he did for Gods ...   Sat Nov 17th, 2012 07:08 am

Ok, found the story and the book I was looking for. Christopher Coleman's Ghost and Haunts of the Civil War, chapter 10 The headless Phantom ...   Thu Nov 15th, 2012 08:10 am