Does anyone know where I could buy John Owen Allen's, "The Strength of the Union and Confederate Forces At Second Manassas" (Masters Thesis, George Mason...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 21, 2008 4:58 pm
It could be an unpublished thesis. Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's mother's side, is...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 21, 2008 5:10 pm
Gerry, I believe that you are correct. ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Services prints unpublished dissertations which is where I bought Tom Clemens' Carman...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 21, 2008 5:15 pm
How much for Tom's dissertation? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's mother's side, is an...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Feb 21, 2008 5:17 pm
He did that thesis for Joe Harsh at GMU. If GMU does not have a copy, and they may not, Joe may have one, or know how to find one. I'll ask the next time I...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 21, 2008 5:23 pm
Gerry, I bought it hardbound which is the most expensive--IIRC, it was about $70. I think softbound is $60 and 8 1/2x 11 loose is $40. The UMI number for his...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 21, 2008 5:25 pm
Ok. Thanks! Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's mother's side, is an introduction to any...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 21, 2008 5:39 pm
Thanks very much Tom, I just called ProQuest and they don't have it. I do have numbers however, from Brett Schulte's website: ...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 21, 2008 7:30 pm
Gerry, You may already know this--Tom's book just goes through 14 September, Carman's first seven chapters. Larry...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 21, 2008 7:35 pm
That is fine. Actually, I need help with September 14.... for a book project.... Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage,...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 21, 2008 9:38 pm
I wasn't completely accurate--it stops with Crampton's Gap on the 14th and doesn't cover Turner's and Fox's Gaps. Larry...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 2:33 pm
I heard on the news this morning that a major, out of control fire is in progress in Boonesboro! Anyone heard if it is in the historic area downtown? Larry F....
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RoteBaron@...
Feb 22, 2008 2:55 pm
Antietam NPS has posted their 2008 schedule. Here are the hikes for Spring 2008: March 16-The Advance of the Irish Brigade This battlefield hike will meet near...
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RoteBaron@...
Feb 22, 2008 3:10 pm
A four-alarm fire in Boonsboro has destroyed the historic Boone Hotel on the square and heavily damaged at least two other buildings. .The other buildings...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 3:42 pm
Tom, Thank you for the news; very sad. I hope all property owners are able to rebuild especially since historic buildings were involved. Larry ... Hotel on the...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 22, 2008 3:43 pm
Larry; I think that hotel was the hotel mentioned in Michael Priest's book Before Antietam.......... Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 3:52 pm
Gerry, I see that during the skirmishes in town, it was apparently called the "U. S. Hotel" then. Looks like Priest had some good descriptions of the actions...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 22, 2008 3:55 pm
Larry, It depends on whether it was insured, for how much etc. It looked from the news story photo, the building pretty much was totally gone! Yr. Obt. Svt. G...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 4:47 pm
Just read the latest update: In addition to the Boone Hotel at 1 N. Main St., other buildings affected by the fire were at 9, 11 and 13 N. Main St. The U. S....
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Feb 22, 2008 5:33 pm
Yes, the historic Boone hotel is gone. The fire engines woke us this morning, a lot of them. The hotel was being resstored by Nora Roberts, the famous...
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joseph_pierro
Feb 22, 2008 5:48 pm
Larry: His early one ("Units of the C.S. Army") sometimes gives casulty figs for battles, but not strengths. Crute wrote a more recent, similar book (the title...
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richard@...
richcro1862
Feb 22, 2008 5:48 pm
Kyd Douglas remembers an adventure at the U S Hotel that resulted in a Hollywood style chase -- firing backwards while riding at breakneck speed until he fell...
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joseph_pierro
Feb 22, 2008 5:53 pm
Larry: A lot of disserts and theses don't get picked up by Proquest, etc. Nearly every school, however, binds hard copies for their own library collections,...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 7:04 pm
Jake, Thanks for the info! I ordered Sifakis's Virginia units book to see what it has so I will hold off on Crute for now unless I see it in Ted Alexander's or...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 7:08 pm
Tom, It sounds very bad. Perhaps next month when I'm out and about in that area I will stop by and see what happened. The best case would be that it and the...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 7:11 pm
Douglas sure can come up with interesting tales, some of which may even be true! I will use the Boonsboro incidents in my current school paper regardless since...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 22, 2008 7:27 pm
Dear Larry, HKD can be used but try to verify what he says as much as possible via other sources. If we could only get to the actual diary, which Doug Bast of...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 7:40 pm
Gerry, I hope Doug prints the diary so we have some more insight into HKD. I wonder if he is planning on doing so or is there something else going on? Larry...
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eighth_conn_inf
Feb 22, 2008 8:04 pm
Tom, Also, pls let me know if there is anything that I or perhaps others can do to help in the restoration of the town. I saw the latest news article which...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Feb 22, 2008 8:36 pm
Larry, Actually it is more complicated than that. For any such printing, even with annotation, would mean tracking down any of HKD descendants (IIRC, he never...
