I recently found this excellent article on the myths of Sherman's March to the Sea. I being a Univ. of Mich alumnus, am always a little leery of something...
I just ran across this item. It was stated that Hood graduated in the top half of his entering class at West Point. I had always thought that he was close to...
Outside the usual "anything Grant has ever done is evil" discussion, can we have a real discourse on the competency of McClernand? My opinion of him, aside...
Last weekend, my wife Bonnie and I drove to south-central Kentucky to visit a bluegrass music friend who has a place near Somerset KY .. he knew I had an...
Good Evening my friends, Last night I sent a message to the group about closing the CWWT down. I had a very sleepless night and took the occasion to review my...
Good Evening My Friends, First let me tell you that this message is not aimed at any particular individual. It is just aimed at the direction that the group...
When an army in the field deployed into line of battle in the presence of an enemy, and battle was imminent, how did the brigade surgeons deploy? Did each...
Reading through Kiper's bio recently. He claims that McPherson was against moving south of Vicksburg. I have never seen this asserted before ... and he...
Although unit elections for officers and non-commissioned officers were to have supposedly to have ended in 1862 . I recently have come across to where ...
Although Grant's memoirs are hardly the final word on whether McClernand had independent command or not, he can certainly be used as good evidence of his own...
On Davis' return trip from Palmetto Ga, where he conferred with Hood before the Franklin Nashville campaign, this is what I could noodle out from my meager...
Hmm. Uncle Billy is controversial in Baton Rouge? Who would have thought.... Take care, Bob Judy and Bob Huddleston 10643 Sperry Street Northglenn, CO...
"Latest update: Lawrence was operated on last night-brain surgery, etc. If he lives through today they expect he will survive, but it is still uncertain what...
I wonder how often this happened at different battlefields. I'll bet it was not uncommon.... Take care, Bob Judy and Bob Huddleston 10643 Sperry Street ...
I find it somewhat difficult to believe that people here apparently disbelieve Grant's memoirs when they argue that Grant intentionally forestalled McClernand,...
WHL Wallace is one of those bright spots in the Union command at Shiloh. I've always wondered what he and Peabody would have done had they lived thru the...
Who first asserted that the order was issued in triplicate? Pemberton points out that he only recalls receiving one copy, that Johnston only mentions issuing...
After the fall of Atlanta, Jefferson Davis visited Hood and the AOT at Palmetto Ga.. This had to have been one heckuva of an oddessy. I'm not sure what RR's...
I have been enjoying Civil War Talk Radio; some of what has been brought up there could be discussed hear a little more I think. On the subject of the...
This will probably be a one post topic, but, hey, who knows. Sorry to take off on a tangent, but the more I think about it, the more this incident in January...
When I said this was drifting into the absurd what I meant was you seem to have a position that is at odds with the bulk of Vicksburg writings. And the more...
I am in the midst of reading Sword's Embrace an Angry Wind and am enjoying it greatly. I seem to have come to place in my studies that most of the characters...
You can find a new topic any time you please. Go ahead and suggest something. Other members of the group may choose to continue. That does not mean that you...
On the scope of Grant's department. Someone said that Vicksburg was clearly not in Grant's department. Well, yes and no. Its in no one's department. Grant...
On the point that Halleck never gave Grant permission for an overland campaign. Wow, I found some doozies that blow up this theory for you. Grant to Halleck,...
Has anyone else caught this? http://utpress.org/a/searchdetails.php?jobno=T01165&authorsm=Joiner,%20Gary%20D. Apparently Gary Joiner is writing a more detailed...
On Halleck needing to give permission for a movement. Ambrose quotes Sec of Navy Gideon Welles "[Halleck] originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist...
