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Civil War author and historian, veteran, long-time tech "nerd." Writing a regimental history of my great-grandfather's regiment, the 2nd Mississippi Infantry.

Huntsville, Alabama

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The first colonel of the 2nd Mississippi, William Clark Falkner, was the great-grandfather of the author, William Cuthbert Faulkner. Colonel John Sartoris, one of Faulkner's literary characters, was based largely upon his real-life great-grandfather.

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“No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle

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Pickett's Charge, July 3rd, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania... “…For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail

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@timfarmer Old Joke: the differences between the branches of the US military If you tell the Army "Secure that building!" They will surround it with armor and heavy infantry and not let anyone out of it until told to If you tell the Marines "Secure that building!" They will storm the

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OTD 154 years ago Robert E. Lee died - October 12, 1870.

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@ZOrtiz99 Reminds me of the flag my great-grandfather fought under - 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment...

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@Shawn_Farash I think he'll pull a lot of the "moderates" across the line with him.

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@toobaffled Just sayin'...

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@JudiciaryGOP Why don't y'all try actually doing something besides just posting your outrage on X?

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@EndWokeness The memorial is also the grave marker for the Jewish sculptor, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, who was also an ex-Confederate soldier. He was a member of the Corps of Cadets at VMI and fought at New Market.

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@TRobinsonNewEra “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Going home - April 9th, 1865. Since today is the 159th Anniversary of the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virgina at Appomattox, did you ever wonder how those paroled Confederate soldiers got home? All that were paroled were presumably issued parole papers that allowed them

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General Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg, and Pickett's Charge... Funny thing - we all have 20/20 hindsight, don't we? Lee failed at Gettysburg. We all know that, but let me give credit to my friend Starke Miller of Miller Civil War Tours (FB account) for reminding me of this...

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@catturd2 Is it really Iran? Or will Iran just be the patsy if something happens? I don't take anything at face value anymore.

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The only known photograph of armed Confederate troops on the march was taken in Frederick, Maryland. For many years, it was believed to have been taken during the Antietam campaign of 1862, but recently it has been argued it was actually taken in 1864 during Early's raid on

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@GardensR4Health During Vietnam we could land an entire battalion of troops in the middle of the f**king jungle with Huey's. Where are they and why aren't they being used?

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@EndWokeness And if you're one of the many millions of descendants of Confederate veterans, things like this might have played a role too...

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The Outlaw Josey Wales - Lone Watie talking to Josie Wales... "I wore this frock coat in Washington, before the war. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes. We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln. We only got to see the Secretary of the Interior, and

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@WatchChad Joe's been around long enough to know, "Revenge is a dish best served cold."

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@ATRightMovies Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong in "Dr. Strangelove"...

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1/3 The great-grandson of Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, General Nathan Bedford Forrest III was killed in action when he went down with his B-17 over Germany. He reportedly stayed behind the controls until the last of the crew was able to evacuate but

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I always thought the painting below was a very good example that illustrates the actual size of a regiment deployed in line of battle. Each man would occupy a frontage of about 22 inches and the line would be composed of two ranks by company. Here we see, it would appear, a part

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Unfurling Valor: The Unsung Heroes Who Carried the Colors "The head of a regiment's color company exercised great care in selecting the soldiers who would carry the battle flag. The post of flag bearer was important, not only for the sentimental reasons but for practical ones as

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The Confederate Monument at Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery - Some 18,000 Confederate soldiers are laid to rest in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery, including several members of the 2nd Mississippi. In the 1870's, funds were raised and as many Confederate Gettysburg dead that could be

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Arguably the bloodiest “battle within a battle” during the entire American Civil War was the fight in the 24-acre Cornfield at Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17th, 1862. It is estimated that about 27,000 men were engaged here from 5:30 am to 9:30 am. Of those engaged, some

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Pickett's Charge...William Faulkner "Intruder in the Dust," 1948.

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In celebration of William Faulkner's birthday, one of my favorite excerpts from his "Intruder in the Dust" (1948) “…For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in

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Forged in Defiance: How the South Built an Ironclad Navy from Scratch The Confederacy entered the war without a single ship to its name, but through ingenuity and resolve, it raised an armored fleet of over 20 ironclads to challenge the industrial might of the Union Navy. It was

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Sharpsburg's 24 Acres of Hell: The Battle Within a Battle Arguably the bloodiest “battle within a battle” during the entire American Civil War was the fight in the 24-acre Cornfield at Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17th, 1862. It is estimated that about 27,000 men were

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"The Army Asked Confederate Veterans to Teach Soldiers the Rebel Yell for World War I"...I'll just leave it there...

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The Mississippi Monument at Gettysburg There were eleven Mississippi infantry regiments at Gettysburg. Four in Barksdale's Brigade - the 13th, 17th, 18th and 21st. Four in Posey's Brigade - the 12th, 16th, 19th, and 48th. And three in Davis's Brigade - 2nd, 11th, and 42nd.

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We enjoy reading Civil War battle studies. Uncluttered maps showing the units as little rectangles with arrows pointing the way they attacked or retreated. Commander’s after-action reports describing how Longstreet’s Corps rolled up Hancock’s II Corps at the Wilderness, etc.,

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“…For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled

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Since today is St. Patrick's Day, I thought it appropriate to take note of the members of the 2nd Mississippi who were born in Ireland. Of course, there was the famous Irish Brigade in the Union army, and many Union units contained large numbers of Irish members. Some

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OTD - 163 years ago - July 21, 1861 - The major fighting at First Manassas took place over a surprisingly small area concentrated on the Confederate left flank. But you really need to walk the ground to gain an appreciation of the topography that impacted the fighting, especially

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@ATRightMovies Bogart in "Casablanca"

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@historyinmemes Nobody wins in a nuclear war...nobody...

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Battle of the Fallen Timbers, Tennessee, April 8, 1862 - epilogue to the battle of Shiloh. Here, some 300 Confederate troopers were acting as rear guard for the Confederate army and protecting a field hospital. Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest, being the senior leader present, was

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Civil War Drama: Did Forrest Really Threaten Bragg's Life After Chickamauga? Many may already know of the reported confrontation between General Braxton Bragg and General Nathan Bedford Forrest following Chickamauga. Other historians have disputed the encounter ever took place,

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@GreatSmokyNPS Oh, so taking it back to the Cherokee term. You DO KNOW that the Cherokee were one of the Five Civilized Tribes that declared for the Confederacy during the Civil War, just as did General Clingman? As long as we're cancelling everything Confederate. Just maybe we should go all

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@hodgetwins They don't mind literal grave desecration. The memorial itself is also the grave marker for the Jewish sculptor, Moses Jacob Ezekiel. Ezekiel, an ex-Confederate soldier, was a member of the Corps of Cadets at VMI and fought at New Market.

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Running across some recent posts about the Spanish American War reminded me that former Confederates proudly served some 30+ years following the Civil War. This is probably best represented by Confederate cavalry commander Joe Wheeler. He was a Major General of volunteers (later

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@il0venostalgia Dark Shadows...

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Just because...

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With the bitter winter storm sweeping through, I thought it might be an appropriate time to post about: The Great Snowball Fight of 1863... In 1863, amid the tumultuous backdrop of the American Civil War, the Confederate Army witnessed an extraordinary and whimsical event—the

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I remember as a young boy going to Shiloh and how excited I was to see the park entrance sign come into view. Back then (I don't want to say how many years ago) it showed two Confederate soldiers - one in a slouch hat and the other in a kepi, looking as if they were on guard at

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1/2 To avoid "sensory overload," I'll only post a couple of the Topps "Civil War News" cards a day. As a kid, I remember how I always looked forward to each new set of cards inside the gum wrapper. Most were bloody and gory and very graphic. The art on the cards was produced

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1/2 Captain Tod Carter and the Battle of Franklin “Tod Carter was the last, and the men around him also were the last, ghostly remnants of what had once been the mighty Army of Tennessee. Once it had been a fearsome agent of destruction that had almost demolished Grant’s

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We all know most of the "standard" variations of Confederate regimental battle flags. Company flags were a different matter, however. Many company flags have unique designs and mottos. Here is the flag of Co. B, 3rd Florida Infantry, presented by the ladies of St. Augustine.

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@Grand_handsomer There were others later on, but from my earliest memory...Annette Funicello...

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I'll probably be taking a bit of an "X" break during the holidays, so before I forget - to all my friends and followers, A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! And despite the Arlington Monument being torn down and in the spirt of reconciliation... (Painting: MORT

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1/5 "Campfires of the Confederacy," published 1898, is available from the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) and if you've never come across it, I'd highly recommend you take a look. Here's the link:

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The Sound of Southern Defiance: Exploring the Legendary Rebel Yell The Rebel Yell is one of the most enduring legends of the American Civil War. We hear a great deal about it, though no two people seem agreed on the sound, or even on its origin. What did it sound like? Was it

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OTD 161 years ago. The Confederate fortress city of Vicksburg Mississippi surrenders to Federal forces. On July 4, 1863, Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton formally surrendered his army of 2,166 officers and 27,230 enlisted men, 172 cannon and 60,000 small arms. Five days

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OTD, 161 years ago today, Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, the 2nd Mississippi and the fight at the Railroad Cut. My findings researching the fight at the Railroad Cut. The 2nd Mississippi suffered its worst disaster as a regiment at the Railroad Cut at Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863.

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No commentary necessary...

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"The Gray Wall" Since the 160th anniversary of the fighting in the Atlanta Campaign has closed, I thought it appropriate to share one of Don Troiani's Civil War paintings, "The Gray Wall." The scene it represents takes place during the 1864 Campaign in the West showing one of

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The "Five Civilized Tribes" - the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations - signed treaties with the Confederate States of America and provided cavalry and mounted infantry units in the Trans-Mississippi theater during the American Civil War. The

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@il0venostalgia Thought I was going to die...

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Q&A with Trump in North Carolina just now - Fort "Liberty" gets its name changed back to Fort Bragg...

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A rare photo of a Federal artillery crew preparing to defend their disabled gun from capture by charging Confederates - circa 1863...

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My great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy. He served in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment which was comprised of men from northeast Mississippi. The graphic below captures a quantitative history of the regiment during its four years of existence.

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"Fight for the Colors" by Don Troiani. Corporal Frank Wallar of the 6th Wisconsin struggles with Color Corporal William B. Murphy of the 2nd Mississippi for possession of the regiment's colors at the Railroad Cut, Gettysburg, PA, July 1st, 1863.

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Ever wonder what the distribution by state was of each major Confederate field army - the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater and the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater? Of course, transfers were happening all the time, so you have to "freeze" in time to

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"Well, well, General Hill, bury these poor men and let us say no more about it." -- General Lee to General A. P. Hill, October 15, 1863, while riding over the battlefield with Hill after the battle and seeing the Confederate dead lying on the field. OTD 161 years ago - The

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I remember summer evenings as a kid, watching and listening to the nighthawks from the porch. And if I heard a whippoorwill, my mom would tell me if I could point my finger directly at where it was, it would hush. Sometimes they did, and sometimes they didn't. I still wonder...

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The Rebel Yell - What did it sound like exactly? No one is really sure. Shelby Foote once remarked that any Union soldier who heard the notorious Confederate battle cry, known as the “Rebel Yell”, and said he wasn’t scared by it had probably never heard it.

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1/9 Of the two great Confederate field armies - the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee - have been, in my opinion, unfairly compared and contrasted in favor of the Army of Northern Virginia. My great-grandfather was a member of the 2nd Mississippi that fought

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A Memorial Day post to honor Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III - the first American general to be killed in action during the war in Europe, June 13, 1943. The great-grandson of Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, General Nathan Bedford Forrest III

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Pvt. Daniel Dodd, Co. G (Pontotoc Minute Men) of Pontotoc County. He enlisted on May 1, 1861. He was 21 years of age, single, a farmer by occupation. He was killed in battle at 2nd Manassas on August 29, 1862. He was six feet tall, dark complexion, hazel eyes, and dark hair.

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1/4 When we think of wanton destruction of Southern towns, cities, and individual homes, we sometimes mainly think of Atlanta and Sherman's "March to the Sea", the Shenandoah Valley ("The Burning"), and Columbia, SC. However, much of the Deep South suffered the same fate.

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@Liz_Cheney NATO lost its legitimacy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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The five Bynum brothers of Company A, the Tishomingo Rifles of Tishomingo County, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, posing with the "Hatcher's Run" flag. This flag was never surrendered and was used in several reunion photos. The battle honors are faded in the B&W photo, so a

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April 6-7 will be here soon, and, rightfully so, the posts here on X with respect to the Civil War will mostly be about the great battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6-7, 1862. Before that happens, I thought I'd mention that April 6, 1905, happens to be the birthday of Brigadier

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@elonmusk “Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” -- Winston Churchill - 1937

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Never captured. Never surrendered.

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@mespo2006 They're no better than the Taliban that did this to ancient Buddhist statues...

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1/2 OTD 162 years ago, the CSS Arkansas sorties from the Yazoo River against the combined Federal fleet above Vicksburg... The CSS Arkansas was eventually crewed with some 232 men. About 100 of these came from the late River Defense Fleet and about a third of the crew were

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1/8 OTD 1864, the battle of Franklin, TN. No event better represents the tragedy that was the Civil War than the death of Captain Tod Carter at the battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864.

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The Rebel Yell - Author Craig Warren said in his book that soldiers from a Wisconsin unit were quoted in 1909 about their memories of the unearthly Rebel Yell: “And that yell. There is nothing like it this side of the infernal region and the peculiar corkscrew sensation that it

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Happy Birthday to General Albert Sidney Johnston, born February 2, 1803. Killed in action at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6, 1862. President Davis once retorted to a Confederate congressman who complained that Johnston was "no general," "If Sidney Johnston is not a

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1/3 In many early photographs of Mississippi soldiers, they can be seen wearing stars on their hats or jackets. Must of this, as well as the "Bonnie Blue Flag" can be traced to a Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 3, 1860, speech by Jefferson Davis where he said with respect to Mississippi

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OTD, July 1, 1863, the 2nd Mississippi at Gettysburg - pre-Railroad Cut... I was so anxious to get back from work and post about the Railroad Cut, that I simply bypassed what had happened with the 2nd Mississippi up to that point in time. Here is what happened when Davis

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Well-Equipped Rebels: Photo Challenges 1862 Campaign Timeline, Hints at 1864 This rare image of Confederate troops on the march through Frederick, MD - the only known photograph of its type - has more recently been a subject of debate among historians. Originally thought to be

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@GenFlynn If the military wants guys of Southern heritage to start signing up again, they'd better think about changing the names of our bases back.

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We often celebrate the great Southern generals who led the Confederate armies during our Civil War, but only rarely stop to think about the average "Rebel" - the Southern fighting man, who did most of the actual fighting and bleeding and dying. Here is a post war photo of some of

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"Up, men, and to your posts! Let no man forget today that you are from Old Virginia."

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Michael Brasher

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@JeffYoungerShow Even the Confederacy, desperate for manpower as it was in the closing days of the Civil War, made the age limit cutoff at 45.

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At Cold Harbor, on June 3, 1864, three union corps totaling some 20,000 men attacked the Confederate entrenchments. In less than 10 minutes, 7,000 Federals had become casualties compared to less than 1,500 Southerners. Incredibly, Grant had ordered a second assault, but the men

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The flag of the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas...

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Van Dorn's Gambit: The Forgotten Campaign That Saved Confederate Vicksburg - The Baton Rouge Campaign of 1862 We are quickly approaching the 162nd anniversary of the little-known battle of Baton Rouge, Louisiana on August 5, 1862, a rare example of the used of combined

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Michael Brasher

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Flag of Forewarning: Federals Braced for Cleburne’s Assault In 1864, after Gen. Joseph Johnston took over the Army of Tennessee, he was finally able to force the Virginia style battle flag (albeit in a rectangular style) on the troops, who had used up to nine other flag patterns

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Michael Brasher

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A small Union Civil War regiment in formation in front of its barracks. We all have trouble visualizing the size of a regiment on the battlefield. If it maintains formation, it should maintain this formation when deployed in a battle line. Skirmishers may be deployed to the

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Barefoot and Bold: Lee's Ragged Army Takes the Fight North - The Maryland Campaign - September 4-20, 1862 The Sharpsburg Campaign: A Prelude to Battle The year 1862 began with high hopes for the Union to capture Richmond and end the Civil War swiftly. However, the spring and

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Compared to the Napoleonic Wars, both the role of artillery and cavalry was reduced when compared to the infantry with respect to proving decisive on the battlefield. For instance, a well-respected study by Colonel Trevor Dupuy showed that compared to Napoleon's time, Civil War

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The Illusion of Order: Civil War Battles Beyond the Map Civil War enthusiasts often pore over battle studies, their pages adorned with uncluttered maps showing units as neat rectangles, arrows indicating attacks and retreats. We read commanders' after-action reports detailing

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OTD 162 years ago today - the battle of Second Manassas - August 28-30, 1862. Part 2- Sidebar - Lieutenant General James Longstreet - Lee's "Defensive" General? Despite the modern-day "typecasting" of James Longstreet as a defensive general, Lt. General Longstreet in reality

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Michael Brasher

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1/2 I thought now might be a good time to engage in a bit of "self-promotion" and mention that I have published a 451-page, 8.5" x 11" PDF format 2nd Mississippi annotated roster as Volume 1 of my planned regimental history.

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Michael Brasher

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@DC_Draino While I too support Trump, this is an oversimplification of basic historical facts. In 1860 political parties printed their own ballots. The Republican Party was a regional northern party and did not exist in those referenced southern states. Thus, he was not on any ballot in the

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@MTGrepp Something doesn't smell right. So, what's the next chess move?

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