Tom, Could Warner have mixed up when Hooker received his BG USV commission with when he received his BG Regular Army commission? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry"...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Oct 1, 2008 12:15 pm
Not by the dates he cited. I think it he has it in spring of '62, and Hooker had a BG in Vols. long before that. Dr. Thomas G. Clemens Professor of History ...
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Dave
akula77
Oct 1, 2008 8:06 pm
I have a few questions: Is it worth getting Carman, even if I have to sell the family dog? I have the Carman maps, the Trailhead and the NPS map. Are there...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 1, 2008 8:12 pm
Dear Dave, Jake Pierro published his book on the entire Carman manuscript but from what I understand, there are no maps. Priest is good for getting an idea...
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RoteBaron@...
Oct 2, 2008 12:02 pm
October events at Antietam: October 4&5 - 5th Virginia Infantry Weekendat Antietam Living history volunteers from the 5th Virginia Infantry will portray the...
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James W. Durney
james2044
Oct 2, 2008 2:29 pm
... The Carman Ms was to be published w/o maps. Jake Pierro published his book they way Carman would have published his work. ... I enjoyed the Priest book...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 2, 2008 2:31 pm
James; While Priest's books are readable they do have errors in them. I have knowledge of at least a couple instances in the footnotes where the wrong and...
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James W. Durney
james2044
Oct 3, 2008 4:21 pm
... Gerry, ISTM that all books have errors in them, I've yet to find someone that isn't upset about something. A few years ago, I looked into the errors in...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Oct 3, 2008 4:28 pm
Priest insists the famous episode of Longstreet's staff manning the guns of the Washington Artillery happened along the Harpers Ferry Road during the IX Corps...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 3, 2008 4:43 pm
I found some other errors in the Before Antietam book and there are some mis matching footnotes in the Antietam book. That is sloppy editorship at worse and...
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Dave
akula77
Oct 3, 2008 9:36 pm
As an item of interest regarding Priest, I noticed that Stephen Recker doesn't have "Soldiers Battle" listed among his Antietam books on his guide page. He...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 3, 2008 10:19 pm
Maybe that is because there is not a lot of published material available on South Mountain. But there is a ton of better stuff on Antietam.... Yr. Obt. Svt. G...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Oct 4, 2008 12:36 am
That is exactly the case. Stephen...
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Dave
akula77
Oct 4, 2008 4:54 pm
Ok, then, can it be said by most that Priest is, in some cases, unreliable as a guide to the tactical movements of the battle itself? How then does a newbie to...
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Dean Essig
dean_essig
Oct 4, 2008 4:59 pm
I'd go with Murfin, but as you don't think it is detailed enough, Camen is _the_ source for detail. Just have some good maps handy, like the downloadable...
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128thpa@...
pa128th
Oct 4, 2008 9:21 pm
Program on Lincoln’s Assassination to be Held at Montco An all day program examining the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln will take place...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 5, 2008 12:17 am
Dear Dave, For the larger scheme of things, the maps in Murfin are pretty good. The bookstore at the Antietam VC should have a three part series of maps which...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 5, 2008 12:18 am
Dean, I did not know you could download the Carman Copes maps! Where can you find them online to download? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian,...
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James W. Durney
james2044
Oct 5, 2008 1:26 am
... itself? ... get ... for ... weeks? ... I'm not sure that what we "know" is what happened. During combat, few people check details like time or try to...
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Dean Essig
dean_essig
Oct 5, 2008 2:36 am
Sure Gerry... Available right here (make sure that whole ugly thing is one line on your browser): http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? ...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 5, 2008 3:27 am
Dean, It did not come in as one single hyperlinked line. If you can tell me where on the memory.loc.gov website I need to go, I can search for it myself. Yr....
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Dean Essig
dean_essig
Oct 5, 2008 1:01 pm
Follow the link below http://aotw.org/exhibit.php?exhibit_id=1 And click on the "online" link in the paragraph headed "Campaign Maps". ... [Non-text portions...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 5, 2008 1:37 pm
Dear Dean, I have the Antietam on the Web website already bookmarked and have used the campaign maps. What I need is the actual Cope Carman maps. The link Dave...
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Dean Essig
dean_essig
Oct 5, 2008 1:49 pm
The source links on that page I sent takes you to the actual Carmen- Cope maps. I just sent the AotW address because it had a one word hyperlink you could...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Oct 5, 2008 5:32 pm
Funny you should mention this. I just read Tom Desjadin's "These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory" in which he disputes the...
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Brian Downey
antietam1862
Oct 5, 2008 9:13 pm
I finally put up a few photos and some narrative about our river fording excursion of two weekends back. The link to the blog article: ...
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James W. Durney
james2044
Oct 5, 2008 11:36 pm
However, "history" is that version. I've said it many times, I'm not sure we know what we think we do. ... in ... much as ... of....
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 6, 2008 12:06 am
Dear Brian, Interesting mention of Mallet-Prevost. The founder of a town about 3.5 miles from where I live originally came from Switzerland and was thought to...
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bdowney@...
antietam1862
Oct 6, 2008 2:05 am
Thanks Gerry, They're direct relations, if you're referring to Frenchtown, NJ. Andrew Mallet, son of Frenchtown's founder Paul Henry (Henri) Mallet-Prevost,...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Oct 6, 2008 2:33 am
Dear Brian, Yes, I am mentioning Frenchtown, NJ. Surprised you would know about that... Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth,...
