Not just about the charge, but I thought Longacre's bio of Pickett was a well done book. Dennis ...   Fri Mar 25th, 2011 01:12 pm

TV is only for watching horseracing, football, baseball and C-SPAN (Washington Journal) when you get up in the morning, any other viewing will only poison ...   Sat May 22nd, 2010 09:06 pm

There is nothing but a roadside marker in Elmira where the prison was located but I seem to recollect quite a well kept cemetary where ...   Mon Nov 2nd, 2009 01:17 pm

If you are a bookaholic, the facilities you have to store your treasures are never sufficient. I have a library much like Joe's dream, there ...   Tue Feb 10th, 2009 01:27 pm

I enjoyed the whole game except for the zebras, they could have left their hankies in their pockets about two thirds of the time they ...   Mon Feb 2nd, 2009 01:28 pm

Gaines's Mill and Malvern Hill battlefields are both worth a visit. I think Gaines's Mill is the best battlefield restoration not done by NPS I ...   Mon Jan 26th, 2009 03:06 pm

There is a much greater similarity too William Jennings Bryan. Dennis Conklin ...   Wed Jan 14th, 2009 01:26 pm

I have seen Hancock described as giftedly profane, O.O. Howard was probably as religious as Stonewall. Dennis ...   Wed Jan 7th, 2009 03:06 pm

On a recent visit in Maryland went to Fox's Gap, not much there but worth side trip from Antietam. Also went to Monocacy' NPS has ...   Mon Sep 8th, 2008 10:56 pm

Congrats from one who never bothered to graduate. Can't say that I ever missed it but now days I do think it makes a huge ...   Wed May 28th, 2008 03:00 pm

Widow: You are lucky you could take the elevator down. I was in a hotel in Orange County when the last big one hit down ...   Mon Apr 21st, 2008 02:54 pm

Dan Sickles, I think a more interesting trival fact about the young man he shot, Phillip Keys, is the fact that the man he was ...   Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 02:33 pm

Thats one way of looking at it, however I still find it intersting that 21 men with no financial interest in preserving slavery were willing ...   Sun Dec 16th, 2007 04:05 pm

Hank, Don't know quite what your comment means but for the sake of compleatness The slaveholdings of 24 members are unknown, more than 40 0wned ...   Sun Dec 16th, 2007 01:19 pm

Twenty one members of the Confederate Congress did not own any slaves, a fact which seems to have some relevance to this discussion. Dennis Conklin ...   Sat Dec 15th, 2007 08:49 pm

I don't understand this thread, Santa is as Santa is, nothing can change his appearance. It has been suggested that I resemble Santa which I ...   Tue Nov 27th, 2007 02:38 pm

I don"t know anything about building costs but anyone who has tried to find parking space near the present site will probably heave a sigh ...   Thu Sep 6th, 2007 02:55 pm

Thanks Texas, amazing what you can find on line, still I got the book down off my shelf and read it there, something about holding ...   Tue Aug 21st, 2007 08:47 pm

Thanks Ole. the article you refer to would be a start, but I am convinced that Williams and his adjutant, were not the Lone Ranger ...   Tue Aug 21st, 2007 08:00 pm

This man (subject of the weekend trivia question) got me interested in a subject I know nothing about. In June of 63 he was caught ...   Tue Aug 21st, 2007 03:06 pm

What, the Bloody devil is a "font"? Dennis Conklin ...   Tue Jul 17th, 2007 02:50 pm

Strictly speaking it was not a civil war, A civil war is a war between two factions contending for control of the same government. The ...   Tue Jul 17th, 2007 02:44 pm

I have been re-reading vol.I of Churchill's "History of the English Speaking peoples" started out intending to review the part about the wars of the ...   Fri Jul 13th, 2007 03:41 pm

I don't have a copy, not sure I would be at liberty to share if I did. He does plan on publishing (all of his ...   Mon May 7th, 2007 12:55 pm

My son wrote his Master's thesis on the Johnston-Hood question. I have always been pro Johnston, so Dennis The Younger, perhaps just to oppose dad ...   Sun May 6th, 2007 10:19 pm

JDC: It was the ligthtly racede Asmussen runer with Robby Alberado up, I think Robby has ridden him in all four of his races. Not ...   Sat Apr 28th, 2007 01:04 pm

OK JDC I will go out on a limb and take the gelding, Dominican at a price, I alwaws take a hard look at any ...   Fri Apr 27th, 2007 08:28 pm