Wow, Thanks Hellcat and kj3553. Indeed Irwin received a months advance pay, plus $2, plus a $60 installment of the $402 bounty. I notice ...   Sat Apr 27th, 2013 08:19 pm

I agree no new regiment was created. But this soldier did muster in and out of the Fifth, and I find this a bit confusing. ...   Mon Apr 22nd, 2013 04:12 pm

Another document. ...   Mon Apr 22nd, 2013 01:19 pm

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Hellcat, yes that's what the records say, but in doing some research I found that the process of relisting was as I described. Upon reenlisting ...   Mon Apr 22nd, 2013 01:16 pm

One more thing, after the rest of the 5th Maine Mustered out in June 1864, the Veteran Volunteers were transferred to another unit. ...   Fri Apr 19th, 2013 04:46 pm

Not sure this helps, but in researching a maine soldier at the National Archives I came across papers which show that this soldier reenlisted ...   Fri Apr 19th, 2013 04:40 pm

Mark, Ah yes, it did rally southerners and it did lead to Virginia getting off the fence and seceding. So it initially benefited the ...   Tue Apr 16th, 2013 08:15 pm

And if they Star of the West did not fire, how can that be considered belligerent. I repeat my question. "Can anyone argue that firing ...   Sat Apr 13th, 2013 01:02 am

On this day the Confederate Army began firing 4000 shells, on an undermanned, poorly supplied and outgunned fort that would have peacefully surrendered in a ...   Fri Apr 12th, 2013 05:57 pm

i hope you are as proud of your work as I have enjoyed the benefits of it! ...   Tue Apr 9th, 2013 02:37 am

I clicked through the banner ad at the top of this blog to see a promotional video about Richmond and its role in the filming ...   Sun Mar 31st, 2013 05:52 pm

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Texas Defender - You started this discussion lamenting “Far fewer historians have studied the life of Jefferson Davis than have studied that of Abraham Lincoln. Unlike ...   Tue Feb 26th, 2013 12:43 pm

I think you nailed it BHR62. Southern leaders made some very bad decisions. They didm't fight a noble cause, they started a military ...   Tue Feb 26th, 2013 02:09 am

My point should read, Davis's descendants rationalized Davis's beliefs by saying "(Slavery) was the standard of the day — it's the way the world was." ...   Tue Feb 26th, 2013 01:58 am

Thank you Texas Defender! for points well made. Yes, Your facts show that slavery was increasing in the US. My comment was based on the word ...   Tue Feb 26th, 2013 12:16 am

The USA Today article was odd. Of course Jeff Davis was an accomplished citizen before he was President of the Confederacy, his achievements were what ...   Sun Feb 24th, 2013 11:32 pm

I've seen it twice, and the second viewing was as fascinating as the first. Great acting made believable characters. The reality of mixed support for ...   Sun Feb 24th, 2013 11:12 pm

And I agree with your point about postings on Jeff Davis. There are good reasons that there are zillions of books on Lincoln that "far ...   Sun Feb 24th, 2013 08:24 pm

Thanks for the insights JG6789. I do not know much about the Federalist period or the political debates that were going on at that time. ...   Sun Feb 24th, 2013 08:13 pm

Good to hear from you! Do you find it odd that the Cherokees sided with any white man? After all they were not treated well by ...   Sat Feb 23rd, 2013 10:13 pm

Its interesting to me that there were 5 comments to a post about Jeff Davis's eye problem and NONE to my post. Is this a ...   Fri Feb 22nd, 2013 11:40 pm

On a recent snowy day I took the time to read all the secession proclamations and the reasons for secession provided in separate documents by ...   Wed Feb 20th, 2013 01:09 am

Interesting note. I During the summer of 1858 Jefferson Davis visited Maine for health reasons and was conferred an Honorary Degree at Bowdoin College. It ...   Sat Feb 16th, 2013 02:11 pm

Oh yes, and Texas Defender. I think this is further proof that in 1861, secession was illegal. :) ...   Tue Feb 5th, 2013 08:40 pm

Here is the info for Eugene from the Historical Data Systems Civil War database. These could be the same person. I have seen soldiers discharged ...   Tue Feb 5th, 2013 08:37 pm

I detect in many Civil War postings in this forum, a defensive stance against open discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of southern thinking and ...   Wed Jan 30th, 2013 03:02 pm

Interesting question. If you have artifacts I would explore the lives of the soldiers or civilians who owned them. The story of the war is ...   Wed Jan 30th, 2013 02:46 pm

Hmmm. I didn't mean to provoke a fight Hellcat. Not sure what I said that was inflammatory. ...   Tue Jan 29th, 2013 06:23 pm

Thanks for your comments. I agree that many in the South had reason to believe that there were irreconcilable differences with the North. Yes, ...   Tue Jan 29th, 2013 04:05 pm

The April Issue of Civil War Times has an interesting article, Was War Inevitable? How six men might have saved the lives of 650,000 Americans. I ...   Sat Jan 26th, 2013 03:10 pm

Yes we can agree that "here we go again" was a bad idea. I did not see this was an old thread, i thought it ...   Sat Jan 19th, 2013 08:37 pm

MildMan wrote: Oh my, not again! My whole problem with defenders of secession is that they want to rationalize secession as being entirely reasonable. Secession was ...   Sat Jan 19th, 2013 08:13 pm

Oh my, not again! I just can’t let Texas Defender present his opinion about the legality of secession as facts. AND I see he is being ...   Sat Jan 19th, 2013 06:37 pm

BHR62 Interesting. The framers of the constitution also could see the problems in Europe, where many nations in close proximity were in constant conflict. This ...   Fri Jan 4th, 2013 12:57 am

Hank C. Slavery, being a very bad institution, was on an inevitable road to extinction. The US stood alone, or nearly alone among civilized nations ...   Fri Jan 4th, 2013 12:57 am

Texas Defender, Well we do agree on many things! Nice message, though I think an polite debate is OK too. ...   Fri Jan 4th, 2013 12:42 am

Texas Defender, Let me make one more try at a coherent discussion. I can’t argue with a belief that secession was legal in 1861, you are ...   Thu Jan 3rd, 2013 12:53 am

Texas Defender. You say I misuse facts by misspelling sumter as sumpter and calling Texas vs. White, Texas vs. US. Meanwhile, you twist facts in ...   Wed Jan 2nd, 2013 01:14 am