Excuse me for butting in but the 1860 Nashville Directory list two Riverboat Companies running as far east as Carthage Tennessee. Also although it has been...
The following quote can be found at: http://www.delawareonline.com/news/2000/april/story404302000.html I thought this was an interesting observation, by a...
Has anyone ever heard of the battle of Iuka, Ms., fought on Sept.19, 1862, refered to as the battle of "Bethel Church"? I have been researching this battle for...
Jason: We have people from all over Ohio in the unit. We the 19th Ohio Light Artillery will be at Hale Farm, this week end.If your in that area, drop in on...
thanks for the help, i appreciate you answering my questions. i am from upper southeast ohio but i cant find a regiment close enough. do u know of one? i have...
It has been a couple of years since I read about the taking of New Orleans, but I remember the author being very critical of its defense. Forts Henry and...
Chuck, Too bad about your having to be stranded within Illinois. I have read in several places that Mobile, and not Meridian, was Mister Sherman's true goal....
Chris: Just catching up on back mail.When the name Peach Tree Creek caught my eye.My great grand- father was with the 33rd Ohio. They were there July 19-20....
Zeke: I re-enact, With the 19th Ohio Light artillery, and also the 78th PVI. Just enough equipment to go around you can never get too much. How do we die,...
... I can agree with you Steve about Mobile. And I am a former resident of the area. When we lived in Fairhope, we virtually lived on the bay, especially...
Hi Phillip, Thanks for the nice words about the group. Sounds like you are not that far from me ( I live in Herndon, Va). Thus my interest in the Eastern ...
Dear Ms. Heatherington, Do you truly know what the missions of a cavalry force are to a commander (from the Civil War: Corps to Army)? The cavalry was and is...
Folks, (Note: What follows may be viewed by some readers as partisan, hometown pride. To which the author pleads "Guilty As Charged". But, it is also ...
Dear Ms. Heatherington, Captain Dodge provided a textbook answer to your question, however, the tone of his note is indicative of the decline within our...
On another list, read a long discussion about the causes of the CW. Not strictly Western Theatre, but a lot of what you mention here -- the "moneyed" class ...
Mr. Weeks, I live in Louisa (Louisa Courthouse to you folks),Virginia. I feel sometimes like I'm living in the middle of an enormous graveyard. I am...
Dear John, An infantryman requires approx. one yard of space in which to operate, thus 482 effectives would require 482 yards in which to work, say 500 for a ...
Please forgive me for asking what is probably a silly question but can anyone tell me the size of the physical area (in yards) a regiment would cover when...
Dear Group: A "nested" question for you: When, and for what reasons, and driven or guided by whom, would you say that the use of cavalry in the West began to...
Ralph, Everything you say is absolutely correct. In the CSA the individual States did not pull together to give that "National Feeling" without which a nation...
HTML>Ralph, Thank you for your kind remarks re. my latest missive. Thinking more about the Eastern Theatre/Western Front (14-18) analogy, the reasons for the ...
A short while back, someone posted a query seeking information regarding the transportation of 20,000 stands of arms by Bragg in his hopes of arming the...
Good Evening Western Theater Folks, I can't thank you enough for picking up the discussion. I have to be honest and confess that I was thinking very seriously...
Hugh: I am by no means an expert on any facet of the late unpleasantness, but I would guess that Hood's attack at Franklin had as much to do with frustration...
Dear Folks, I'm sorry to do this and if it's "agin the rules" I won't do it again, but a gentleman named John Horrighs p-mailed me with a question and I keep...
Dear Folks, Sorry for the poor formatting on the last bit of correspondence. :-) J.H. wrote: " I think a very over-looked factor about the rapid loss of...
Dear Folks, Lucky me! All the history I got in high school was "black history" (I am a product of desegregation in case you were wondering). So I get to start...
<< The question I have is do you feel that because the CSA was founded on “states Rights” that in the end politics clouded military decisions. >> Ralph, I...
One thing that I do not think people look at is the way politics influence war. Sun tuz in the art of war wrote that when politics intervened on behalf of war...
Like Graham Lee I too am from the U.K. and that a lot of my correspondence has been in the question category. My interest in the Civil War started with an...
