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I doubt you have any realism from 3D to begin with. Most 3D movies aren't filmed that way, they film them with regular cameras then ...   Thu Jun 28th, 2012 02:22 am

Hey ole, how's it going? ...   Wed Jun 27th, 2012 02:40 am

Plenty of categories to post in, plenty of threads to post in. Think we've got a thread on Shaara's books in the books, movies, and ...   Tue Jun 26th, 2012 03:46 am

TD, the link Kevin Weeks link you provided had an address for African-Americans in the Confederate Army (www.blackconfederatesoldiers.com). I found Dance in the Tennessee Confederate ...   Mon Jun 25th, 2012 03:16 pm

Sorry to not get back sooner, Mark. The book is It Happened in the Cvil War by Michael R. Bradley. Bradley does state Dance first ...   Mon Jun 25th, 2012 02:47 am

I knew last year exactly what was going to happen with this movie. Folks thinking this movie is actual history and running around crying about ...   Mon Jun 25th, 2012 02:20 am

No, you'd be a heritic if you run around claiming the movie depicts real history that the government ois purposefully hiding from us. ...   Sun Jun 24th, 2012 01:45 am

Yhis may be the best I can do for now. http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettyscampaign.htm Actually lost one of my favorite websites, but that wouldn't be any help anyway. It ...   Thu Jun 21st, 2012 03:32 am

No Mark, what I was reading says he was Color Guard from 1861 to Stones River at the very least and he finished the war ...   Thu Jun 21st, 2012 12:29 am

I've come across this name and want to see if there's more on him. George Dance, apparently a corporal with the 8th Tennessee, Donelson's Brigade, ...   Wed Jun 20th, 2012 09:23 am

Really it's personal preference. I know they do these surveys and come up with an answer from that, but the surveys can change depending on ...   Sun Jun 17th, 2012 08:03 am

Let me guess, the markers probably have copper in their composition? ...   Wed Jun 13th, 2012 02:44 am

Yeah, it was back in December it was brought up. http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/forums/forum59/3020.html ...   Wed Jun 13th, 2012 02:42 am

Nice. Reminds me at first of the Regulator encampment they did at Alamance Battleground what was it, summer of '85 or spring of '86. Then ...   Tue Jun 12th, 2012 04:53 am

I'd argue something else about Custer. Have had a low opinion on him after one of my Christmas or birthday presents in the early '90s. ...   Tue Jun 12th, 2012 03:31 am

Ive already seen three people ask if the trailers for this are based on real history and at least a dozen people claim they are. ...   Tue Jun 12th, 2012 03:27 am

As I pointed out, the war woulds have turned to the Western Theatern if the Army of Northern Virginia was destroyed and Lee and his ...   Mon Jun 11th, 2012 06:36 am

CleburneFan wrote: This book might be tough to find in a standard retail bookstore because Civil War selections are quite limited in such stores and usually ...   Sun Jun 10th, 2012 02:35 am

Already have a thread on this in the movies and TV section. http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/forums/forum59/2789.html ...   Sat Jun 9th, 2012 02:32 am

I wouldn't rely on eBay to determine the worth of something, personally. Remember you're looking at how much people are putting something up for on ...   Sat Jun 9th, 2012 02:30 am

Maybe, maybe not. Remember Lee didn't become a US citizen again until Ford was President because supposedly Seward had given his application to a friend ...   Fri Jun 8th, 2012 01:48 am

Reported the same thing here http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/forums/forum75/3147.html ...   Thu Jun 7th, 2012 08:25 am

Just saw this article on the doctor's report concerning Lincoln's death over on Yahoo and thought I'd share. It's Dr. Charles Leale report as to ...   Thu Jun 7th, 2012 07:19 am

I remember this as a good question when it was first posted and as there have been new folks to join since it was last ...   Thu Jun 7th, 2012 07:13 am

Could there be such a mistake in the records from the National Archives. I can't say yes or no for caertain, but I will say ...   Thu Jun 7th, 2012 01:53 am

Violence ain't really a problem here considering some of the stuff I like would certainly be deemed violent. Actually what I saw was less violent ...   Fri Jun 1st, 2012 11:17 pm

I changed channels after the first 45 minutes of night one. It just didn't interest me, though to be perfectly honest it didn't interest me ...   Fri Jun 1st, 2012 05:38 am

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