The extra V, referencing veterans, would have been added after the men re-enlisted w/ enough numbers to keep their flag and their identity. ...   Sat Apr 20th, 2013 01:42 am

Javal, you have provided a service that has been appreciated. You will be missed, hope & pray your health improves. God Bless you. ...   Mon Apr 8th, 2013 09:31 pm

I don't believe Lee said it, too out of charachter for him and all we have is a questionable source that essentially said: "I heard ...   Thu Apr 4th, 2013 11:42 pm

Really need a like button sometimes. ...   Fri Mar 22nd, 2013 08:10 pm

Jackson was a man w/ faults as well as strength. He wasn't as popular w/ his men as some would have you believe. ...   Fri Mar 22nd, 2013 01:42 pm

Yes, several members here are also members there. As a polite note Javal doesn't take kindly to attacking other boards here. ...   Fri Mar 22nd, 2013 01:37 pm

I really wish this site had a "Like" button... Now just to figure out a way to get back into SD or Wyoming... ...   Mon Mar 4th, 2013 11:36 pm

Sorry it's taken me this long to reply... missed the post TD. I do believe that if an officer resigns his commision and then heads home ...   Mon Mar 4th, 2013 08:35 pm

My problem with Davis stems from my reading of the man, his own words are what IMO damn him so readily. His auto-biography, if ...   Fri Mar 1st, 2013 12:54 am

There are fewl that know anything about Lincoln IMO. Most HS students wouldn't know him from Jeff Davis.  The SCV, LoS, DoC etc represent themselves ...   Thu Feb 28th, 2013 11:40 pm

I would certainly not say Davis was villanized, in fact I would say the reverse is true. The man is an all but cannonized ...   Thu Feb 28th, 2013 12:33 am

I'm sorry TD but when I look at his actions as a politician and in his post war writing I see nothing more than a ...   Tue Feb 12th, 2013 11:15 pm

Jeff Davis was aiming at the White House from the moment he entered politics. He was a typical politician, no more, no less. ...   Mon Feb 11th, 2013 11:28 pm

Remarks: Corp, : absent in Mil. pris. at M O of Co. Is a reference to him being on detached duty as a prison guard or ...   Sat Feb 2nd, 2013 07:47 pm

For me it is well written, easily read and superbly researched. Part of the reason I'm a fan of Sword. ...   Sat Jan 26th, 2013 12:43 am

HankC wrote: Insecurity wrote: Yet another vote for Army of the Tennessee, under grant. The record they hold as a fighting army is amazing, and ...   Mon Dec 31st, 2012 10:06 pm

The codetalkers weren't just used against the Japanese. They also gave the Germans fits. The 82nd had several Lakota, in Sicily those Lakota ...   Sat Dec 15th, 2012 11:47 am

My best friends father, Dave Bald Eagle, is a full blooded Lakota whose grandfather was a young warrior at the Little Big Horn. ...   Thu Dec 13th, 2012 11:34 pm

As a note it wasn't until John Browning linked up w/ Winchester that a lever action repeater was produced firing anything more than carbine ammo... ...   Wed Dec 12th, 2012 10:09 pm

BHR62 wrote: Custer Michigan troops had Spencer Carbines at Gettysburg.... why the hell didn't he at the Little Big Horn? Custer's men at Gettysburg had Spencer ...   Mon Dec 10th, 2012 11:28 pm

Start w/ a boot brush before going the Lysol route... moldy isn't something I've experianced on my brogans, ...   Thu Dec 6th, 2012 12:48 am

Larry Romano makes the Spencer repop that counts. ...   Tue Nov 27th, 2012 11:59 am

The Spencer Carbine hit the field in October 63, although there were some private purchase ones in the field prior. The first Spencer Rifles ...   Fri Nov 9th, 2012 10:01 pm

Actually, those not armed w/ Spencers were carrying P53 Enfield Rifle Muskets. The majority of the men were carrying Spencer Rifles but there were ...   Mon Nov 5th, 2012 10:53 pm

BHR62 wrote: I'm trying to get a good handle on the POW exchanges the North and South did during the war. I have an ancestor ...   Thu Oct 18th, 2012 01:45 am

I think Meade was competant, professional and exactly what Lee did not want to face. ...   Thu Oct 4th, 2012 11:14 pm

A gift certificate to abebooks.com... there is no such thing as too many books. ...   Thu Oct 4th, 2012 11:05 pm

CS script was totally worthless by that time. US coinage continued to be used throughout the war w/ bartering thrown in to supplement & ...   Fri Sep 28th, 2012 12:48 am

I'm not a fan of Wiki for a variety of reasons. The busiest ports in the US were not in the South, New York Customs ...   Mon Sep 10th, 2012 11:32 pm

Texas Defender wrote: BHR62-   In 1860, neither section of the country understood the other. Most northerners didn't think that the southerners would fight a war to ...   Mon Sep 10th, 2012 10:20 pm

"The South went to war on account of slavery,...South Carolina went to war as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 10:08 pm

"You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be." Jefferson Davis, February 1861. ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:56 pm

"What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:56 pm

"Slavery, God's institution of labor, and the primary political element of our Confederation of Government, state sovereignty...must stand or fall together. To talk of maintaining ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:54 pm

"When the people of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, seceded from the Union of the United States, they put forth in justification of their course, ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:53 pm

I'd rather every one of my children should be laid out on the cooling board, than to have the Yankees get my slaves." Georgia mother ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:50 pm

“You have no right to ask, or expect that she will at once profess unbounded love to that Union from which for four years she ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:47 pm

I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery—a soldier fights for his country—right or wrong—he is not responsible for the political ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 09:34 pm

And it was men like Wigfall who gave us exactly why they were for Secession. "It provides land for the land-less, homes for the home-less, but ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2012 04:47 am

The Apache weren't real particular about sides during or after the ACW, a white man was a potential scalp and a certain enemy. ...   Sun Aug 26th, 2012 03:16 am