Hey Everybody! Robert here--joined the list a few weeks back and have been reading with great interest. What--if anything--did the Confederate /...
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Chet Diestel
agatematt
Jan 25, 2011 5:44 am
      The most the Trans-Mississippi Department could do was to send a message to Pendleton, as well as Richmond, informing them that there was neither...
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Bronco
pronghorn_an...
Jan 25, 2011 6:18 am
Thanks Chet, What could they have done? Jumping into a time machine and taking charge, what could have been done? Why didn't every Confederate unit in the...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 25, 2011 11:17 pm
I don't at all buy the notion that it was over after Vicksburg;If you think that,then I think you don't understand much about the psychology of the war.Point...
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Patricia B. Swan
swan_pat_est...
Jan 26, 2011 12:07 am
Chris, that morale thing may have to be considered in light of Sherman's and Grant's determination. Best. PBS ________________________________ From: chris...
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Bronco
pronghorn_an...
Jan 26, 2011 12:14 am
Chris is correct. That was an overstatement on my behalf. The Confederacy squandered/missed several subsequent opportunities that might have politically...
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Bronco
pronghorn_an...
Jan 28, 2011 4:35 am
I hope I didn't kill the discussion.. Robert ... Chris is correct. That was an overstatement on my behalf. The Confederacy squandered/missed several subsequent...
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Patricia B. Swan
swan_pat_est...
Jan 28, 2011 1:29 pm
What were the "good opportunities" that the Confederates had to win the war in the West after Gettysburg? ________________________________ From: Bronco...
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Patricia B. Swan
swan_pat_est...
Jan 28, 2011 1:32 pm
Off course I meant "after Vicksburg." ________________________________ From: Patricia B. Swan <pbswan@...> To: civilwarwest@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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hank9174
Jan 28, 2011 3:06 pm
If Bragg wins the battle of Browns Ferry, union forces in Chattanooga are soon starved into surrender. The army of the cumberland is lost and the main US...
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Patricia B. Swan
swan_pat_est...
Jan 28, 2011 3:18 pm
Hank, If the taking of Brown's Ferry by Hazen et al. had failed, would not have the 11th and 12th Corps moved in for another and, probably successful, attempt?...
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william
banbruner...
Jan 28, 2011 6:08 pm
All three of the Narrative volumes or now available on Kindle at $14.80 each. They all have an active table of contents and a word search index and those great...
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Chet Diestel
agatematt
Jan 28, 2011 7:55 pm
     Victory may be a matter of terminology       After Vicksburg, The Confederacy had the ability to win a given battle or campaign, which it did,...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 28, 2011 10:06 pm
Seems to me I should list some of my basic assumptions about the war.These assumptions seem to me to be pretty well proven and I hope you can agree with them: ...
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jlawrence@...
Jan 28, 2011 10:47 pm
Hello. A few points: Seems to me I should list some of my basic assumptions about the war.These assumptions seem to me to be pretty well proven and I hope you...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 29, 2011 1:09 am
Jack, I disagree with you on #1;I don't believe the North had a viable strategy when the war started and I don't believe the other advantages would have made...
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Jack Lawrence
jlawrence@...
Jan 29, 2011 2:00 am
... From: "chris bryant" <paladinsf@...> To: <civilwarwest@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [civilwarwest] Some basic...
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Joseph R R
sixthky...
Jan 29, 2011 2:05 pm
The Max Kade Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sponsoring a conference focusing on "German and German-American Dimensions of the Civil War"...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 29, 2011 8:31 pm
Maybe a good question to ask is:what if Lincoln had been killed earlier?Is there a point before which Lincoln's death might have given the South a chance to...
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DPowell334@...
dpowell334
Jan 29, 2011 8:45 pm
Joe, This looks like I might make Saturday - is there any fee? Dave Powell In a message dated 1/29/2011 8:05:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, ...
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Joseph R. Reinhart
sixthky...
Jan 29, 2011 9:08 pm
Dave There is no fee. Hope to see you there. Joe ________________________________ From: "DPowell334@..." <DPowell334@...> To:...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 29, 2011 9:19 pm
I'd sure like to hear a report about it;my ancestor,Florian Warth came from Baden in 1845,became a citizen at St. Paul,Minnsota in 1856 and was killed sometime...
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DPowell334@...
dpowell334
Jan 29, 2011 9:32 pm
Great. I love going to madison, and the line-up looks good. I'm about 2 hours away from Madison, but use the library on campus there all the time for research....
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Joseph R. Reinhart
sixthky...
Jan 31, 2011 10:56 am
Chris I tried to find your ancestor Florian Warth in several Civil War databases without success. I found a Florian Wirth in the 37th Ohio but he survived the ...
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hank9174
Jan 31, 2011 3:54 pm
Which is a good point but raises the question: if 2 corps are waiting to attack why use a fairly complex operation with one brigade? It's failure then alerts...
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Jason Unwin
generalrippe...
Jan 31, 2011 5:53 pm
I was looking for a schedule of American Civil War reenactment events in the US for 2011. I tried Camp Chase Gazette but Google kept telling me it was a bad...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 31, 2011 8:40 pm
Thanks for the effort,Joe;I've tried before to find out more about him but without any luck.I'm not able to travel but wish I could go and I've become aware of...
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Joseph R. Reinhart
sixthky...
Jan 31, 2011 9:12 pm
Chris Total Germans by state of enlistment can be found at...
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chris bryant
paladinsf
Jan 31, 2011 10:33 pm
Joe, Â Â Â were there any large units in which germans were conspicuously ABSENT?Just trying to get an idea about where Germans were,though I have SOME...
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Patricia B. Swan
swan_pat_est...
Feb 1, 2011 3:38 am
Hank, Yes it seems that Hooker took a chance by using so few troops. Luckily the operation didn't fail. Had it failed, however, he had the additional troop ...
