Susan, I have to agree with you. Cut out all the dross between those two scenes and we'd have a very short , but watchable, ...   Sat Jul 4th, 2009 01:54 pm

Maybe you should reconsider and take that trip to Shiloh. It won't fix your a/c but slug burgers and chicken livers (in any form ) ...   Fri Jun 26th, 2009 07:21 am

bschulte, Thanks for that, I'll have a search for it ...   Fri Jun 12th, 2009 09:20 pm

Stephen Sears, Shelby Foote, Wiley Sword, Bruce Catton, for me, all great authors. John J Hennessy, I can only find the one by him ( Return ...   Fri Jun 12th, 2009 07:33 pm

I recently stayed at the Quality Inn at General Lees HQ. It is the last building in town on Buford Avenue and sits overlooking the ...   Tue Jun 9th, 2009 05:27 am

Went to see the cyclorama late on a Tuesday afternoon about an hour before closing. Me, my wife and only seven other people, were able ...   Fri Jun 5th, 2009 07:03 pm

Well over here in England we would never have got to play Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final (and beat them for those that ...   Fri Jun 5th, 2009 06:08 pm

Didn't I see a movie about this "Terminator. Rise of the Machines" ...   Thu Jun 4th, 2009 07:26 am

Whilst on holiday recently I picked up a book by John Baldwin and Ron Powers called "Last Flag Down", the story of the commerce raider ...   Wed May 27th, 2009 03:01 pm

Just got back yesterday from the trip, had a great time ( and great weather) on your side of the pond. Took a lot of ...   Mon May 25th, 2009 07:12 pm

Victoria, This might not be what you are looking for but it is a good quote ...   Sun Apr 26th, 2009 05:52 pm

You need someone other than Rosecrans to tell that story. He was too busy running away! ...   Sun Apr 26th, 2009 04:26 pm

I haven't been for about 5 years and can't wait to see what a difference the tree cutting has made as well as the new ...   Mon Mar 30th, 2009 03:34 pm

"I predict that large-scale amphibious operations will never occur again." Truman's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Omar N. Bradley, October 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We'll never ...   Sat Mar 28th, 2009 11:35 am

Javal, Yes I do use blue cheese with cauliflower but not in great quantities, just add to your own taste. ...   Thu Mar 19th, 2009 05:58 pm

Javal, Great recipe, nice soup. Also good when you use cauliflower instead of broccoli and blue cheese instead of cheddar. ...   Thu Mar 19th, 2009 11:09 am

I could never call myself a gardener and a few years ago, pre credit crunch and economic meltdown, we grassed over our moderately successful vegetable ...   Sat Feb 28th, 2009 07:05 pm

Good grief! I've seen some bad comedy sketches in my time but that one is..........bad! ...   Sat Feb 28th, 2009 06:49 pm

The surrender at the Mclean house was a monumental moment but, amongst many other places, I think I would choose to be at the Wilderness ...   Wed Feb 18th, 2009 09:48 pm

Second Manassas ...   Wed Feb 18th, 2009 05:12 am

Ok I'm all for skipping dessert, lets just go straight to the cheese.........no,no, not again,I'm gonna torture myself again............cheese....... ...   Tue Feb 17th, 2009 07:30 pm

Sounds really good. What's for dessert? ...   Tue Feb 17th, 2009 07:21 pm

Hi DG Good luck with the research and the paper.If you can get hold of them the following should help: ...   Tue Feb 17th, 2009 07:17 pm

The Irish Brigade in the Civil War:The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments of the AOP by Joseph Bilby. Only a short book, 132 ...   Thu Feb 5th, 2009 07:32 am

Kernow, Will be doing Grants Tomb when we get to New York but looking at the website it seems to be badly run ...   Mon Jan 26th, 2009 05:58 pm

I'm beginning to think that I'll need 2 months instead of the 2 days I've actually got. Great stuff folks. Thank you, keep it coming. Doc, Do you ...   Mon Jan 26th, 2009 03:08 pm

Forgot to ask, have only ever been in Virginia in September or October, what is the weather like in May? ...   Mon Jan 26th, 2009 01:27 pm

Susan,             Thank you for all that info, I will now spend the next couple of months before we leave to read up on all ...   Mon Jan 26th, 2009 01:23 pm

My wife and I are planning a trip to the States for 3 weeks throughout May. The first week we will be with a friend ...   Sun Jan 25th, 2009 06:40 pm

President Obama being sworn in was a lesson in the power of democracy. Good, determined, business like speech. Impressive stuff. Well done USA. ...   Tue Jan 20th, 2009 06:04 pm

Couldn't call it exciting but "This Republic of Suffering, Death and the American Civil War" by Drew Gilpin Faust is the most fascinating book I've ...   Mon Jan 19th, 2009 09:21 pm

As an Englishman I cannot comment on whose tax dollars pay for what but what I do know is that, anyway you look at things, ...   Mon Jan 19th, 2009 04:20 pm

I have on my bookshelf a huge weighty tome called "Cloudsplitter" written by Russell Banks which I read some years ago. It is fictionalised account ...   Sat Jan 17th, 2009 06:20 pm

The Bernard Cornwell Civil War series, started but as yet unfinished as he seems to have lost interest and gone off in other directions, are ...   Sat Jan 17th, 2009 05:23 pm

Have to agree there is nothing better than a good mature cheese. It would be a very rare thing indeed for any cheese to go past ...   Thu Jan 15th, 2009 09:00 pm

He appears to be telling it as it was but, as I say, it is a book that needs time to appreciate and that is ...   Thu Jan 15th, 2009 05:46 am

I have mentioned before on another thread that I regard Semmes as one of the wars more interesting characters and I love his story, commerce ...   Wed Jan 14th, 2009 09:28 pm

Hello and welcome. ...   Tue Jan 13th, 2009 04:22 pm

The mindset of people who do this sort of thing is completely unfathomable. I come across many of them as I spend my working life ...   Tue Jan 13th, 2009 04:21 pm

Hello and welcome 105, for your first experience of an internet community you've come to the right place, they don't come much friendlier than the ...   Sat Jan 10th, 2009 03:08 pm