Again, many thanks, but, whoo, Daddy, that book costs $32.00! I love the idea of the book about Traveller that is told by him. Great ...   Fri Nov 30th, 2012 01:51 am

Thank you for that. I guess I never paid sufficient attention to the exact spelling. Traveller must have suffered greatly with the tetanus. It is ...   Fri Nov 30th, 2012 12:21 am

Wasn't Traveler also the name of Robert E Lee's horse? ...   Thu Nov 29th, 2012 10:00 pm

The photos show that both Union and Confederate fought and died at Shiloh but the song's lyrics were heavily weighted toward the Confederate sacrifice at ...   Fri Sep 21st, 2012 02:31 am

Welcome back. I definitely remember you. ...   Sat Aug 25th, 2012 11:23 pm

Then it would seem that no battle in the Civil War or any war was any more or any less of a turning point than ...   Tue Aug 14th, 2012 01:10 pm

It is actaully kind of fun to argue over which battle was the "true" turning point of the war and why. ...   Mon Aug 13th, 2012 10:14 pm

Union batteries on Malvern Hill and Union batteries on and around Culp's Hill at Gettysburg. Lee's cannonade on Day Three at Gettysburg. In fact, just ...   Wed Aug 8th, 2012 01:43 am

Just my two cents. Both Grant and Lee were military men leading soldiers in a war. At that time in history, the way war ...   Tue Aug 7th, 2012 12:45 pm

Gotta confess, I really didn't realize until I heard Gallagher say it last night, that Grant's armies suffered "only" 35,000 casualties throughout the entire war, ...   Tue Aug 7th, 2012 12:07 am

Many thanks for that link. I watched Gallagher's entire hour-long presentation and found it fascinating. He has some persuasive arguments for his statement. I understand ...   Mon Aug 6th, 2012 12:39 am

My guess would be that Lee evidently wasn't completely dialed into Stuart's plans the second time. He kept wondering where Stuart was and why there ...   Thu Jul 26th, 2012 12:03 am

Stuart's intentions may have been good, but his detour ended up taking longer than he anticipated because for one thing he was burdened and slowed ...   Wed Jul 25th, 2012 01:23 am

Hellcat, We'll have to disagree on this one. I go to movies every week, many in 3-D, some also in I-MAX such as the last ...   Thu Jun 28th, 2012 01:21 pm

Johan Steele wrote: How much alcohol will I have to consume to enjoy such a flick when it hits Redbox? Let's see. If you wait for RedBox ...   Thu Jun 28th, 2012 12:10 am

BarryDancer, I agree with you on this one. ...   Wed Jun 27th, 2012 12:54 am

Thanks for that, Hellcat. Actually I was certain I would get my fanny kicked for posting a somewhat glowing review of this movie. I did greatly ...   Sun Jun 24th, 2012 04:49 pm

Though it is heretical to confess this at a Civil War HISTORY web site, two others and myself went to see "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer" ...   Sun Jun 24th, 2012 12:35 am

Don't know why FedReb, but that link doesn't work for me. Here's another link: http://www.toappomattox.com/Home.html ...   Fri Jun 15th, 2012 12:38 am

Mark wrote: I agree Cleburne, but would the Confederate public have supported him? I'm not sure. Either way, it would have been hard to ...   Sun Jun 10th, 2012 10:37 pm

Even if McClellan had completely wiped out the ANV along with Lee, Jackson, Hill, JEB Stuart and so on, I don't think Jefferson Davis ...   Sun Jun 10th, 2012 06:27 pm

j harold 587 wrote: I agree on all points Hellcat. Also have found ABE Books (American Book Exchange)to be very helpfull in locating used or library reductions. I ...   Sun Jun 10th, 2012 06:24 pm

Vernon Dutton wrote: Thanks Cleburne Fan. I will read what you suggested. This book might be tough to find in a standard retail bookstore because Civil War ...   Sun Jun 10th, 2012 02:07 am

Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was not the only Confederate army. Even if McClellan had defeated Lee, Union forces would still have had to defeat ...   Sun Jun 10th, 2012 12:56 am

bhh wrote: I was invited to be in the film. It was being film outside of New Orleans and I was told the blood suckers ...   Sat Jun 9th, 2012 12:23 pm

Sorry. I missed it, but will go check it out now. ...   Sat Jun 9th, 2012 12:21 pm

Given the gruesome events of the last couple of weeks, perhaps a more current movie should have been "Abraham Lincoln:Zombie Hunter", but in fact on ...   Sat Jun 9th, 2012 01:45 am

To me it just seems like a typical, everyday case of some overworked or inattentive government clerk misfiling something. It happens all the time. The ...   Sat Jun 9th, 2012 01:11 am

Paxton really surprised me because I had not taken him for being capable of doing such a convincing job of portraying Randall McCoy, a conflicted ...   Sun Jun 3rd, 2012 09:57 pm

It's not surprising that not everyone would like Hatfields and McCoys. My sister-in-law gave up the first night in the first ten minutes when Devil ...   Fri Jun 1st, 2012 08:27 pm

Having seen the three two-hour segments of "The Hatfields and McCoys" twice on H-2, I can say that I highly recommend it to anyone who ...   Fri Jun 1st, 2012 02:07 am

As a shortcut, I did a quick Google search and found two references that say something on the order of "Some historians believe these were ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 01:17 am

Thank you, Hellcat. You are indeed referring to the incident that led to shooting. I am going to have to dig in my books of ...   Mon May 21st, 2012 12:41 am

Texas Defender wrote: grizzly-     If they had waited, I don't believe that it would have mattered in the end. It would only have postponed ...   Sat May 19th, 2012 08:31 pm

Lee's army retreated from Gettysburg with much of his artillery and enough ordnance to fight off potential Union attackers. In fact his retreat was ...   Wed May 16th, 2012 12:39 am

Barlow wrote: I wonder what General Lew Wallace would think of Rotov's topic? And Longstreet on Day Two at Gettysburg. ...   Tue May 15th, 2012 02:16 pm

Dimitri Rotov has posted an enlightening examination at his blog about how Civil War writers all too often and perhaps even unconsciously emphasize the high ...   Tue May 15th, 2012 01:20 am

Even though I don't like what ifs and alternative histories, I do have to wonder that if Jackson had been at Gettysburg, would he have ...   Sat May 12th, 2012 12:13 am

I don't know where the 6% figure came from. If I'd have to guess, I would have put the figure higher, but when one stops ...   Fri May 11th, 2012 01:52 am

What ifs are difficult. To assume that if Jackson had not been killed at Chancellorsville and hence had been commanding a corps at Gettysburg and ...   Fri May 11th, 2012 01:27 am