Rarely seen section of Franklin battlefield open for tour Sunday By PEGGY SHAW Staff Writer FRANKLIN — Collins Farm, which played a significant role in the...
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philip@...
pcallen3
Mar 1, 2002 1:57 pm
Feb. 28th Connie writes: Steven Woodworth is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. He's good. Hi Connie, I agree that Woodworth's book is a...
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L. A. Chambliss
cwixan
Mar 1, 2002 2:23 pm
Hi group... Civil War Interactive is doing an exclusive interview (online) with well known Western Theater author Peter Cozzens in connection with the recent ...
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P. B. Jones
pbjdesigns
Mar 1, 2002 3:47 pm
Hi Laurie, Sounds great. :) Now tell me how is this going to work online? I checked the page and see nothing detailing how this interview will proceed. By...
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L. A. Chambliss
cwixan
Mar 1, 2002 4:48 pm
Hi Pat, Sorry, I guess I was not clear in my last post. The interview will be "online" in the sense that we are doing it by email. Peter Cozzens, although best...
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P. B. Jones
pbjdesigns
Mar 1, 2002 4:54 pm
Oh, okay. I thought it might work like some chats on CompuServe when they've interviewed authors. Very well moderated IMO. Questions are submitted one at a...
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hvonbork@...
Mar 1, 2002 5:31 pm
Battlefields in jeopardy By Arlo Wagner THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two nearly 140-year-old Civil War battlefields in Virginia are among 10 in the United...
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P. B. Jones
pbjdesigns
Mar 1, 2002 6:25 pm
For those who might be reluctant to open the attachment I've copied and pasted the information. BTW Yahoo supposedly has "advanced virus protection". I don't...
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carlw4514
Mar 1, 2002 6:52 pm
Jaffa, Jack Kemp, and Joseph Sobran have been crossing swords over this book [internecine conservative warfare] ; apparently Sobran and Kemp had a debate, wish...
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carlw4514
Mar 1, 2002 6:55 pm
I think you are right. Here is a question for everybody: does the Confederate victory at Chickamauga prove that the Lee-opposed sending of troops west was...
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aot1952
Mar 1, 2002 8:10 pm
Boy Carl to put it mildly you really know how to ask the tough questions! Of course this raises the whole debate that is most often couched in terms of the Tom...
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wh_keene
Mar 1, 2002 8:15 pm
"Here is a question for everybody: does the Confederate victory at Chickamauga prove that the Lee-opposed sending of troops west was actually the right course...
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carlw4514
Mar 1, 2002 8:40 pm
Longstreet to Johnston might have just been what it took to get that pessimist (Johnston) out of his funk. In any case, I really think this is what could have...
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hank9174
Mar 1, 2002 9:14 pm
aot finally pops the cork in his last sentence. It wasn't more troops that were needed out west. It was Lee... The AoT had fighting generals (below the corps...
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carlw4514
Mar 1, 2002 9:54 pm
Stephen, as usual you do an excellent job of articulating the "reality" vs "theory" side of things. As far as that goes, it might even be that the rickety reb...
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wh_keene
Mar 1, 2002 10:47 pm
I am not as enamored by Lee as some (must come from being raised a downeast Yankee boy), so I don't see how sending Lee to the west would have solved the...
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aot1952
Mar 2, 2002 1:35 pm
Obviously, this issue is one where everyone has an opinion and each opinion is just as valid as the other. It is all huge what if! Like Will my opinion of Lee...
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carlw4514
Mar 2, 2002 3:15 pm
In 1863 I would think that the reb RR would have been usable if not wonderful…. certainly they were having plenty of problems maintaining the system, so if...
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carlw4514
Mar 2, 2002 4:00 pm
I dunno about being off topic, it is all connected strategy. Bragg was in Chattanooga by 28 July ; the 7 days had ended at the first of July and the second...
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Jack Hultquist
lonejack1862
Mar 2, 2002 5:52 pm
March 25, 1862 a skirmish occurred close to the Missouri River, NE of Pisgah, MO. One dead Confederate was J. M. Willis. He had a sister, Emma Willis Smith,...
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carlw4514
Mar 2, 2002 6:19 pm
I can't help you with your quest but I have to say I had no idea such a website existed! thanks so much for sharing carl ...
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Jack Hultquist
lonejack1862
Mar 2, 2002 8:34 pm
Re: Where do I search next? MO. I can't help you with your quest but I have to say I had no idea such a website existed! thanks so much for sharing carl ...
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hartshje
Mar 2, 2002 9:22 pm
Wakefield, Very interesting proposal about Bragg going east. Trying not to get too far off topic, let me just say this: Adding 28,000 men to Lee's army in...
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aot1952
Mar 2, 2002 10:01 pm
Hey Joe-- Some very good points. But if I was a betting man I think I would like the odds of a Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, Bragg, and Stuart team verses the...
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hartshje
Mar 3, 2002 1:36 am
Wakefield, That would definitely be a good bet! Hey, ever think about this what-if? What if Davis had ordered Lee to go to Chattanooga with him in early...
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FLYNSWEDE@...
Mar 3, 2002 2:37 am
In a message dated 3/2/2002 8:41:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Now this is an interesting scenario. One main catch in it is that I can just imagine...
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LWhite64@...
Mar 3, 2002 5:01 am
Interesting thoughts, although I do wonder how well Lee would have fit in with some of the misfits in the AOT, especially if Davis brought Polk back in as a...
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lilsteve68@...
lilsteve68
Mar 3, 2002 5:34 am
At Chickamuga.. with Longstreet coming from Va after the Gettysburg Loss what where the feelings of the men from the Tn , Ga, and Ala units. Where those...
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hartshje
Mar 3, 2002 7:33 am
Wayne, you are probably right about Johnston & Davis. But that aside, I think if Lee took over from Bragg, he would have found a way to pry the AotC out of...
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hartshje
Mar 3, 2002 7:47 am
Lee, I think Lee's reputation and personna would have produced great respect from the subordinate commanders. They would also have been very happy to be rid...
