cw book u would most like 2 see
for...@japan.com
Cash
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> but that hasnt been written
>
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Volume 2 of Brooks' Grant Biography. : )
Regards,
Cash
William G. Davis
Nick
Corrections to volume 1
Brooks Simpson
Mark Behrendt used to post as "forrest64." :)
Cash
"Brooks Simpson" <bdsim...@yahoo.com> wrote
> Mark Behrendt used to post as "forrest64." :)
>
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Yup.
Regards,
Cash
Cash
"Nick" <forr...@msn.com> wrote
> > > Volume 2 of Brooks' Grant Biography. : )
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Cash
> >
> >
> > Seconded!
>
> Corrections to volume 1
>
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I see Behrendt the moron's back. Okay, idiot, how about putting up? What
corrections?
Regards,
Cash
Brooks Simpson
One of the strengths of the NG in the past several days has been that
with a few exceptions posters have stayed on-topic and discussed --
horrors -- the Civil War. There's been much less flaming, and that's
due in part to some people not being here.
I realize that some people aren't happy unless the NG's about them or
unless they are flaming. Let's try not to encourage the usual
dysfunctionality. Thanks. :)
David Spencer
A serious scholarly biography of Adelbert Ames. Not so much for his
Civil War service (which would be interesting enough), but for
Reconstruction and after.
--
dhs spe...@panix.com
Reginald H Pitts
(1812-1885), probably second only to Frederick Douglass as the most
influential African-American in the Civil War era--a medical doctor
after a stint at Harvard Med School, Delany was an antislavery
activist, newspaperman, colonizationist, the highest ranking field
officer of acknowledged African descent (Colonel of the 104th USCT)
during the Civil War, and a Reconstruction politician who came to grief
in the murky political situation that was postwar South Carolina.
Although a lot has been written about him, the last good study is over
thirty years old. His writings are still read, and are worth reading.
Reg Pitts
Blank...@yahoo.com
William G. Davis
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Sounds like you've got a good start, Reg. Write on!
WGD
>
Cash
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You're right, but my question stands--what corrections?
Regards,
Cash
Phil Leigh
Special Order Number 191 that led to Sharpsburg.
I want more than the mere description of who found it and passed it along to
McClellan. I want as much background and analysis as possible on *how* the
orders got lost or stolen as well as how the event impacted the campaign.
Presumably, there were a number of other lost or stolen orders that had
similar impact throughout the war. For example, IRC, Pope was in a dangerous
position between the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers where he could have
been attacked from the west by Lee and forced to back into the fork of the
two rivers that were in high water at the time, but he was alerted to the
trap by lost of stolen orders.
-- Phil
Phil Leigh
so long to adopt the repeating rifles and carbines.
Bruce Martin
> I would like to see a book that provides an analysis of why the Yankees took
> so long to adopt the repeating rifles and carbines.
According to Brent Nosworthy in "The Bloody Crucible of Courage", the US
Chief of Ordinance, James W Ripley, was the main problem. He thought
that the soldiers would use up all their ammunition by firing to
rapidly. Weight was also an issue with him, as both the Spencer and the
Henry were 'magazine guns', with an additional 1-2 pounds added to the
total carried by the soldier. The reliability of the cartridge itself
was debated as well. Because of their fragility, they tended to
deteriorate after hard marching, and so only small amounts would be
distributed at a time. Cost was also a factor, naturally, as it was a
Republican administration :-)
William G. Davis
"Phil Leigh" <ple...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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>A summary and analysis of "lost and captured" orders like the (in)famous
>Special Order Number 191 that led to Sharpsburg.
>
> I want more than the mere description of who found it and passed it along
> to McClellan. I want as much background and analysis as possible on *how*
> the orders got lost or stolen as well as how the event impacted the
> campaign.
Now, who is going to own up to that?
William G. Davis
>I would like to see a book that provides an analysis of why the Yankees
>took so long to adopt the repeating rifles and carbines.
>
> -- Phil
That doesn't take a book. Army thinking at the time was the men would waste
the bullets.
ray o'hara
"Phil Leigh" <ple...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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took
> so long to adopt the repeating rifles and carbines.
>
> -- Phil
they weren't sure of the technology of breechloaders in 1860-61, they knew
the older guns worked, it was typical military conservatism