... prepared ... Mr. Mix: No. Just because someone followed an order, doesn't automatically make it peremptory. As Mr. Bruner stated, "There is a 'clear'...
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Tom Mix
tmix@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:42 am
I believe Buell felt the orders were peremptory as well. He quickly prepared to turn over command. Right? Tom ... From: civilwarwest@yahoogroups.com...
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Bob Huddleston
huddlestonus
Feb 1, 2006 4:20 am
All of this is quite irrelevant. What mattered is that the Bosses, Halleck, Stanton and Lincoln interoperated Thomas' actions as a refusal. So when the...
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endeavorgot
Feb 1, 2006 3:09 am
barry writes: To an extent you are correct. The problem is that the argument has been made that the orders themeselves were not peremptory; I disagree. The...
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Dick Taylor
DANDVTEN@...
Feb 1, 2006 3:08 am
... Maybe you're thinking of the planned action before the actual battle-the confederates had a great plan to isolate parts of the union army in the cove and...
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Bob Taubman
stafftca
Feb 1, 2006 2:11 am
bjer50010 <barry.jewell@...> wrote: --- In civilwarwest@yahoogroups.com, Bob Taubman ... been no delivery of the message, therefore, there would have...
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bjer50010
Feb 1, 2006 1:25 am
... such. ... previously ... his ... his ... understand the ... be retained. ... persuaded him to ... Kent, I agree with what you've written here. Rosecrans...
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bjer50010
Feb 1, 2006 1:21 am
... been no delivery of the message, therefore, there would have been no request for Buell to be relieved. ... Bob, To a large extent I agree with this...
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Bob Taubman
stafftca
Feb 1, 2006 12:07 am
To pick a nit, if those conditions had been met, there would have been no delivery of the message, therefore, there would have been no request for Buell to be...
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DORR64OVI@...
dorr64ovi
Feb 1, 2006 12:03 am
In a message dated 1/31/2006 6:55:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, barry.jewell@... writes: What is being argued is not that Thomas was not enough of a...
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bjer50010
Jan 31, 2006 11:49 pm
... shut ... this ... felt ... that a ... (don't ... it ... a ... The point is that Thomas refused the command, no matter what spin you want to put on it....
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bjer50010
Jan 31, 2006 11:17 pm
... Bob, Not on the actual orders. There were conditions on whether McKibbin should deliver them, but not on the orders themselves. IMHO, McKibbin was wrong...
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nickrelee@...
shilohnick
Jan 31, 2006 8:29 pm
If you go to _http://www.southernmostillinoishistory.net/civilwar.htm_ (http://www.southernmostillinoishistory.net/civilwar.htm) you can see all sorts of ...
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nickrelee@...
shilohnick
Jan 31, 2006 8:20 pm
Do you want pictures of the cemetery? I have some of it too. The museum in Cairo that has the desk is the Cairo Custom House Museum. Once I started searching...
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Tony Gunter
tony_gunter
Jan 31, 2006 8:02 pm
... That's funny... Jeff is actually a childhood friend of mine....
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David Wall
edkiniry
Jan 31, 2006 7:51 pm
I would also be very interested in information about the museum, also information about the Civil War military hospital, that was at nearby Mound City,...
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nickrelee@...
shilohnick
Jan 31, 2006 6:39 pm
No idea of location but i do have a picture of his desk he used while in Cairo, that I can send to you. I'll try to find the name of the musuem in Cairo I...
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Bob Huddleston
huddlestonus
Jan 31, 2006 4:59 pm
Huge cannons? Take care, Bob Judy and Bob Huddleston 10643 Sperry Street Northglenn, CO 80234-3612 303.451.6376 Huddleston.r@... "Don't argue with...
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hooperjwboro@...
hooperjwboro
Jan 31, 2006 2:41 pm
A question to Dave P, Joseph,Lee, Bill B and other learned gentleman. With couriers delivering info on ever changing conditions and if more than one carrier...
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LWhite64@...
Jan 31, 2006 1:58 pm
Dave, I think that is the Million dollar question. Lee...
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DPowell334@...
Jan 31, 2006 1:45 pm
In a message dated 1/31/2006 7:33:37 A.M. Central Standard Time, LWhite64@... writes: Dave, I also think that a little of it might have been that Cheatham...
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LWhite64@...
Jan 31, 2006 1:33 pm
Dave, I also think that a little of it might have been that Cheatham was Polk's Corps and Polk might have favored them a little, using the Chickamauga ...
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DPowell334@...
Jan 31, 2006 12:19 pm
Bill, I think you are correct about Cheatham. His division was in better shape than that of Liddell, for instance, yet both Walthall and Govan were committed...
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endeavorgot
Jan 31, 2006 5:02 am
L White writes Part of the reason that Cheatham sat out most of the 20th was that part of the Division was chewed up pretty badly on the 19th, Jackson, Smith,...
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LWhite64@...
Jan 31, 2006 3:37 am
Part of the reason that Cheatham sat out most of the 20th was that part of the Division was chewed up pretty badly on the 19th, Jackson, Smith, and Maney had a...
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Dan G
dan6764
Jan 31, 2006 3:26 am
I am helping a student with a research paper.. Got a question.. Does anyone know the location of Grant's HQ in Cairo Illinois.. We know it was on the upper...
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hooperjwboro@...
hooperjwboro
Jan 31, 2006 2:23 am
Joseph, REFRESHING, Some of the posts take 2 + 2 and come up with 7. Thomas argues...Thomas tells Halleck to shove it..... he does not decline he REFUSES...
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josepharose
Jan 31, 2006 1:34 am
... Maybe after he makes a simple request concerning the military situation. And you make it appear as if this had been going on for some time. Buell planned...
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endeavorgot
Jan 31, 2006 1:05 am
It also seems to me that after the breakthroug, the cats were being herded in the wroung direction and Bragg couldn't adjust to the new developments. Bill...
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endeavorgot
Jan 31, 2006 1:00 am
One thing I don't understand.... One of many things about Chick.is the apparent inactivity of Cheatham's five brigade division on the 20th. ISTM that if...
