Hello I come to you quite new at all this, but excited at the opportunity being afforded to me. I am woefully inadequate in many areas of Civil War history,...
The following message was posted for all egroups managers and I thought I had best pass it along. "This Sunday, August 15, we will be taking down the...
Ahem.... For those of you who may be new to email lists, let it be noted that it is I, the "old veteran", who committed the first official "Oops!" on this here...
Hey all!!...Just checking to see if anyone has or knows of any books on General Govan....Have read only minor snippets about his Civil War career, and would...
I noticed on the scroll back of the Chat Room this morning that there was a lot of discussion last night about a recent visit to the Wilson's Creek battlefield...
Steve: Some of the Daniel Govan papers are housed in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Their contact...
The Western Theatre drew a collection of inovative far-thinking men together James Eads Rodgers,Foote,Porter,Grant,Sherman.these were men who stepped out of...
What a unique and inovative idea to create a cyber Western Civil War round table!!! pull up a Box o'Hardtackl and swig yer grog lads. Tis the what we(the...
According to what I understand, Ky's neutrality was precarious from the start. The state had, for a full generation, been striving for a compromise. As the...
This from 'War in Kentucky: From Shiloh To Peryville' by James Lee McDonough. "...the Kentucky situation is clarified by the knowledge that the majority of...
It made no difference who "invaded" Kentucky, she was destined to be brought into the war. I understand the reason for not wanting to "first" But like...
Now that we have a few members here, I would like to indulge in an old Internet tradition known as Shameless Swiping of Useful Posts from Other Lists. This...
Hi all Looking through the first page on the Western Theatre in Shotgun's pages Leonadis Polk is cited with breaking the neutrality of Kentucky. Was it not...
This group discusses all aspects of the American Civil War as conducted in the Western Theater of operations. Any action that did not involved Lee's Army of...
The early campaign is as interesting as the TN invasion and is a study in contrast between defensive ideas. Johnston, felt that keeping the AoT intact and a...
Time Magazine reported last month that Uday had actually been taken alive, but as part of Delta Force's "standard operating procedure," the Delta Force...
Apparently there is a new book out called "Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River" by William L. Shea, Terrence J. Winschel (part of the...
Excuse the interruption: Has anyone else experienced any problems accessing Google? Every time I try to go there, I get a message instruction me to make some...
I'm reading Horn's "Army of Tennessee" and last year I read Connelly's books on this army. I'm very interested in how Davis handled or didn't handle the...
THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGN UP FOR KEEP IT ON THE CIVILWAR OK THANK YOU. JW ... From: civilwarwest@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, September 21, 2003 22:05:20 To:...
For Authentic Hard Core and Mainstream Civil War Reenactors, How to Make a Pipe Kit for Your Civil War Haversack by Paula & Coach McCoach Every reenactor wants...
CW combat 7pm Battle of Culps Hill, 8 pm chickamuga, 9pm - the crater and at 10 The Battle of Franklin tonight on the history Channel All times are central...
March 22, 1863 was the low point of Grant's efforts to get around Vicksburg. In frustration he wrote to Gen. Banks that "there is nothing left for me but to...
We often hear that the "tide turned" in the civil war after Gettysburg and Vicksburg fell. Is this perception or reality? In other words, up to that time, had...
To me the high tide for the South was Chickamauga. Shiloh negated 1862 as a high tide year, IMHO. Chickamauga was an opportunity to reinvigorate their efforts...
I have witten a short summary of Arthur Lyon Fremantle's military career. I hope it proves interesting as a guide to the type of person that this observer of...
Much is made of Lee's ability to move sub-par performing generals out of his theatre. On the US side there appears to be no compulsion to do so. In fact, many...
