Today the War Department announced that Major General Ulysses S. Grant, United States Volunteers, was being nominated by the President for promotion to Major...
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Bob Huddleston
adco1@...
Jul 7, 2001 11:34 pm
I would second Carl. Grandpa's knee is a wonderful place to learn to love history but often a terrible place to learn accurate history. I do not recall any...
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Bob Huddleston
adco1@...
Jul 7, 2001 11:34 pm
To become repetitious, Thomas did not knock *anything* off. Mill Springs had no impact on the war, positive or negative. Tell us, Joseph, how did Sidney...
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Bob Huddleston
adco1@...
Jul 7, 2001 11:34 pm
Ken Burns was interviewed in the "Making of GB Movie" TV show. He made the same comment, adding that ground was shaking. And that was just 30-40 guns firing...
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Bob Huddleston
adco1@...
Jul 7, 2001 11:34 pm
The Army of Tennessee was destroyed at Franklin, not Nashville. And the remnants did escape from Nashville, to finally surrender at Benton. Take care, Bob Judy...
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Bob Huddleston
adco1@...
Jul 7, 2001 11:34 pm
Generals do not have the "right under the circumstances to a fair trial, before removal, no matter what might be the feelings of the President and Secretary of...
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ParrotheadDan@...
Jul 7, 2001 11:42 pm
Bob, Good point, additionally, consider the noise level, the smoke, the confusion, all of which must've surrounded the area of those guns...and it was coming...
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Jenny Holder
jholder@...
Jul 8, 2001 1:16 am
AGREED ..Dan :-) My 14 yr old plays such monotonous music( rap) and also while doing her homework!! The continuous "thump" drives me crazy even in a lower...
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Jenny Holder
jholder@...
Jul 8, 2001 1:52 am
Bob, Not only the noise but at the end of filming the smoke created led to a heavy rainfall after that and one of the artillary re enactor told me that they...
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hartshje@...
Jul 8, 2001 4:24 am
Joseph, Dave, and Carl, My humble apologies for thinking no one cared!! Thanks for your posts about Sheridan. Carl, I saw many messages about this Yahoo...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 6:20 am
... This is the book in question; the historian who highlighted the plagiarism was Richard McMurry in The Journal of Southern History, if my memory serves me...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 6:23 am
... Oh, no. You might want to ponder whether it is a good idea to cite such an author so approvingly in light of what Dave has posted, however. To each his...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 6:27 am
... that ... seems ... book ... Perhaps. Perhaps not. Casting blame all about does not necessarily make a book great. Does Cozzens have much positive to say...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 6:32 am
... be considered unimpeachable. All sources--including those which support one's argument, ones that oppose one's argument, and other sources that discuss a...
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josepharose@...
Jul 8, 2001 6:39 am
Fellow Joe, You're more than welcome for any help. I would also recommend reading the posts on the website; if you had gotten e-mails last month, there would...
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josepharose@...
Jul 8, 2001 7:20 am
Bob, I accused you of overstatement; I was wrong. It seems to me that you're guilty of understatement in saying, "The Army of Tennessee was destroyed at...
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josepharose@...
Jul 8, 2001 7:41 am
Mr. Wakefield, In a recent post, you wrote: "Kind of like the same unsubstantiated fact that Thomas advised Rosecrans not to continue his dispersed pursuit...
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josepharose@...
Jul 8, 2001 7:46 am
Dr. Simpson: Which author was accused of plagiarism, or were both so charged? What was the outcome of these accusations? Did the accusations put into question...
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Dave Smith
dmsmith001@...
Jul 8, 2001 1:44 pm
... they ... (s)? McDonough alone was accused of the plagiarism. The section that was plagiarized was not worked on by the other author. Dave...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 2:26 pm
... Tennessee ... That final conclusion (which is over 40 years old) has been challenged by recent research. Much of Hood's force actually melted away in...
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sdwakefield@...
Jul 8, 2001 2:28 pm
I know I will regret this but since you specifically refered to me in your post I will respond directly to this post. Unlike others, I try not to plow the same...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 2:41 pm
... they ... (s)? As I was not privy to the discussions that took place over this, and much of what I have derived from colleagues is properly considered ...
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sdwakefield@...
Jul 8, 2001 2:45 pm
One thing is clear-- this particular McDonough book sure is hard to find! Wakefield--- In civilwarwest@y..., "Dave Smith" <dmsmith001@y...> ... was...
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josepharose@...
Jul 8, 2001 3:10 pm
Dr. Simpson: I'd hardly noticed McDonough before, but then one of your footnotes relating to Chattanooga mentioned Sword, Cozzens, and McDonough as three...
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Robert Taubman
rtaubman@...
Jul 8, 2001 3:12 pm
Try abebooks, they have 31 copies available. ... From: <sdwakefield@...> To: <civilwarwest@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:45 AM ...
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Robert Taubman
rtaubman@...
Jul 8, 2001 3:22 pm
I have this particular book but haven't read it yet. Even though there is plagiarism, how valid is the information contained in the book and how valid is the...
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josepharose@...
Jul 8, 2001 3:24 pm
Mr. Wakefield: I have repeatedly stated that I do not and have not posted under any name other than my own. You seem convinced that I am actually someone...
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brooksdsimpson@...
Jul 8, 2001 3:39 pm
... seem ... I simply wanted to cover all accounts of the battle. The Chattanooga book has not fallen under the same sort of criticism as has the Atlanta...
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Tim Harrison
tharrison@...
Jul 8, 2001 4:09 pm
Robert, That's a good point, Robert. Was the information plagiarized so "good" that the author just couldn't help himself (or rather couldn't help helping...
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grabrulee@...
Jul 8, 2001 4:46 pm
Dear All, Thank you for much enlightenment and entertainment. Unfortunately time pressures required that I reluctantly use the dreaded word UNSUBSCRIBE. ...
