At our next meeting Stuart Lawrence & Gary Mitchell and will talk about Zouave regiments. Newsletters should be mailed by Friday. --Nick ***************** ...
have 10 books in your Civil War collections. Battle Cry of Freedom - McPherson Civil War Memories - Grant Army of the Heartland & Autumn of Glory (treat as 1...
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Jan 6, 2006 4:45 pm
I'll be doing something at our church that evening and shall not be able to attend. I imagine something will come up about the Fire Zouaves....
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Jan 6, 2006 8:16 pm
I need an eight-sided die (0 thru 7) for a war game. Any idea where I can get a couple? Frank Ludeman...
I have one if you want to borrow it. Its 1-8 so you'd have to remember to adjust the roll to your chart. I'd think a hobby shop would have them. --Nick...
An Army Hospital is the vestibule of the Cemetery-the ante-room where the recruiting-agents of Death-Wounds and Disease - assemble their conscripts to prepare...
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Jan 7, 2006 4:20 pm
Bruce Catton's "Army of the Potomac" trilogy (treat as one book) Days of Glory - Larry Daniel Battle in the Civil War - Paddy Griffith Two Great Rebel Armies -...
Good choices, only I¹d certainly cast my vote for Sandburg, (reluctantly) replace Catton (His other trilogy ³the Centennial History of the Civil War² is, I...
Generals in Blue/Gray by Warner (2 books but treat as 1) PGT Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams Two Great Rebel Armies - Richard McMurry Battle...
From the GDG message board: HARRISON FORD TO STAR IN MANHUNT, BASED ON THE FORTHCOMING BOOK BY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER Lawrence Bender to produce, Mike Rich...
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Jan 8, 2006 3:19 am
It occurs to me that it is far from intuitively obvious that "Pangurcat" is I, Richard DeTar. If you want to know the source of the name and have a copy of...
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Jan 8, 2006 3:30 am
Okay, now that we've discussed "specie," how about another civil war term, "parole?" I keep reading of prisoners giving their "parole," being placed on ...
Literally, it means ³word of Honor² from French. That says it all. Harry ... Re: [RockyMtnCWRT] Literally, it means word of Honor from French. That says it...
The concept of Parole went back to the middle ages when it was all but impossible to take care of POWs and all officers were, by definition, “gentlemen.”...
Great report. H ... Re: [RockyMtnCWRT]; Paroles and POW exchanges Great report. H On 1/8/06 11:17 AM, "Bob Huddleston" <huddleston.r@...> wrote: The...
As I've always understood it parole was basically as you said. You were captured and instead of putting you in a prison camp they wrote out a parole for ...
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Jan 11, 2006 6:03 am
I obviously send this for the first item, though, if anyone wanted to come to the second, they would be welcome. I obviously send this for the first item,...
Obviously the firewall was not set high enough.... :>) Take care, Bob Judy and Bob Huddleston 10643 Sperry Street Northglenn, CO 80234-3612 303.451.6376...
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Jan 13, 2006 4:52 am
"I would not want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member." - Groucho Marx...
Not Civil War related but close to a Civil War site. A Navy jet crashed near LaFayette, Georgia Tuesday. I haven't seen the crash location on a map but ...
From Bob Huddleston: Md. County to Ask Civil War Film Director to Pay Back Loan Jan 12th - 10:08pm HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Washington County commissioners plan...
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Jan 14, 2006 5:56 am
I didn't think "Gods and Generals" was THAT bad. But apparently everyone else did. - Rick DeTar...
I came to the movie with too much anticipation from being blow'in away by "Gettysburg". It was hard to set through "G&G" the first time and it will be awhile...
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Jan 14, 2006 11:58 pm
Gods and Generals was not a good film, but I have this suspicion that some of the extreme negative reactions to it may have stemmed from one or both of two...
From the Fields of Conflict message board: ***************************************** This interesting item came from another list. Ray Meddle ye not in the...
Just a reminder that next Thursday is our first Study Group meeting for Antietam. In the newsletter I said it was the 17th but its the 19th (guess I need an...
