Might be an interesting watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjKwvUtGwmA ...   Wed May 30th, 2012 07:34 am

Economic forces, huh? Could you please expand upon that as to what economic forces have to do with the use of pikes during the war? ...   Wed May 30th, 2012 05:05 am

Uh, the topic is military railroads in the Civil War and inparticular armored railroad cars. ...   Wed May 30th, 2012 05:00 am

How does that pertain to the topic at hand? ...   Wed May 30th, 2012 04:58 am

I'm not saying there's no effort in building up an army from a eace time strength to a war time strength and beyond (without grabbing ...   Sun May 27th, 2012 10:30 pm

Think I got the Stackpole Books reproduction of the book Mark linked to. It's definately something I'd recommend looking into purchasing where you're re-enacting ...   Sun May 27th, 2012 04:26 am

But building from scratch means it doesn't exist to begin with. And according to the Army Historical Foundadtion's own book it was less than 200,000 ...   Sun May 27th, 2012 01:52 am

BHR62 wrote: At the start of WW 1 we built an army from scratch like the Civil War.  Germans found out at Chateau Theirry/Belleau Wood that we ...   Sat May 26th, 2012 08:52 am

TD, that's my point and what I'm saying is wrong with the page. It's saying they were Confederates and Chase reported to the Confederate government, ...   Thu May 24th, 2012 04:58 am

But the thing that bother's me, TD, is if you check out both pages it seems this is being taken care of entirely in January ...   Thu May 24th, 2012 03:53 am

Ok, the pages are January, 1861 setting if you read both. But the thing that's bothering me in 38facts2 (first link) is On January 15, 1861, ...   Thu May 24th, 2012 01:52 am

HankC wrote: (never real sure of the need for fort jefferson in the dry tortugas). http://www.nps.gov/drto/historyculture/index.htm Fort Jefferson, the largest all-masonry fort in the United States, was ...   Thu May 24th, 2012 01:36 am

CleburneFan wrote: Unfortuantely my Civil War books aren't organized, just stacked randomly pretty much as I read them, so it will take awhile to dig out ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:56 am

I'm reading through this concerning the What if on Fort Sumter thread and there's one thing that seriously bothers me. I know exactly what it ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:35 am

By April 12, 1861 seven states had seceeded and formed a seperate nation. Lincoln had said that his goal was to preserve the union, so ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:28 am

Joel Smith wrote: History being what it is we, as in United States citizens, tend to think of the war monolithically in terms of a block ...   Sat May 19th, 2012 04:42 am

Are you talking about the scene of Federal soldiers being killed on the road and then Costner says "Get 'em off the road." Scene quite ...   Mon May 7th, 2012 02:20 am

True. But then he was anti his commanding officer at the time and caused trouble for him after the battle. Same for Butterfield. Both were ...   Sun May 6th, 2012 06:59 am

Congrats:D ...   Sat May 5th, 2012 01:25 am

Looks like Cist was too busy after the first volume came out to produce a second volume. He did a bio on Thomas, did magazine ...   Fri May 4th, 2012 02:28 am

CleburneFan wrote: Another thing, just because lots of people don't post, doesn't mean lots of people don't come here and "lurk". Amen to that. I have ...   Fri May 4th, 2012 01:14 am

The people of the North weren't that strongly with Lincoln until pretty much the end of the summer of 1864. His campaign was stalling going ...   Wed Apr 18th, 2012 03:01 am

Sherman had taken Atlanta by the time November 8, 1864 came around, which helped contribute to Lincoln's re-election. As did the fall of Mobile Bay. ...   Tue Apr 17th, 2012 02:29 am

Thanks TD. I can only quote Davis and Chestnut as their the only Southern POVs I've found thus far in the book on Lincoln's assassination. ...   Tue Apr 17th, 2012 01:57 am

Texas Defender wrote: Gettyburger-   The assasination of Mr. Lincoln was a great disaster for the south, as Mr. Davis noted when he learned of it. I certainly ...   Mon Apr 16th, 2012 04:49 am

ebg wrote: Did James Buchanan execute his office faithfully when South Carolina tryed to leave the Union? We have to give him the benifit of the ...   Sun Apr 15th, 2012 08:32 am

Who was president when Texas seceded? If we argue about the president having to defend the Constitution and thus the union of the states then ...   Sat Apr 14th, 2012 09:28 am

Isn't there a thread about this somewhere? A major debate over where the turning point can be found. I still say Vicksburg. ...   Fri Apr 13th, 2012 12:21 am

Knew he was working on a new trilogy that was supposed to be set in the Western Theater of the war. Thanks for the heads ...   Wed Apr 11th, 2012 03:11 am

This has been discussed in other threads and I totally agree. I look back at last year, when the 150th anniversary of Ft. Sumter came ...   Sat Apr 7th, 2012 02:07 am

There's another problem with the Fort Wagner comments is that the 2nd Battle of Fort Wagner took place July 18, 1863. That's the battle being ...   Mon Apr 2nd, 2012 05:38 am

There is an article on quartermasters in general in the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, which ...   Sat Mar 24th, 2012 06:39 am

Fair enough. Though given how many slaves actually flocked to Brown's cause, I'm not sure he was as inspirational as he wanted to be. We ...   Wed Mar 21st, 2012 01:46 am

Mark wrote: Ibuttery, I think the key though is when you said, "in today's terms." I think we need to be very cautious in labeling ...   Wed Mar 21st, 2012 12:33 am

Mark wrote: Thanks for the link Hellcat. As you your question about "eliteness," its for the same reason Civil War soldiers thought that being a ...   Mon Mar 19th, 2012 02:37 am

Try this Mark, I think this is where the site I found yesterday got it's info from.  The lance, another serious weapon in the hands of a ...   Sat Mar 17th, 2012 03:30 am

I was thinking it was going to be a Federal officer instead of Jackson. Richard H. Rush of the 6th Pennsylvania in fact. But looking at ...   Fri Mar 16th, 2012 03:24 am

Roanoke Island. Ball's Bluff. Big Bethel. Santa Rosa Island. New Bern. Fort Macon. Sewell's Point. Some lesser known battle that folks would never even think ...   Wed Mar 14th, 2012 12:47 am

I like some of the captions they give for the politcal cartoons. That series is about compromise based on the caption. Thry this next one, it's ...   Wed Mar 7th, 2012 12:35 am

Well you had said in the original post to try not elaborating too much and let the cartoons speak for themselves, Savez. Tried the only ...   Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 12:05 am