My ProfileKeep Up to Date:
 Blog  Forum |
civil
If you love reading and researching the history of the civil war I thought you would find this post interesting.
I met many people and discussed many of the facts of the civil war on many occasions
... command of the president. it is not for no reason that the president is at least supposed to think as a civilian and have much wider perspective than the perspective of the military generals.
There...
...ome early ideas for reincarnations.
I would personally choose something that involves a mention of the civil war and the end of the slavery but I'm sure that all decisions would be made based on tot...
...ent people die, it is a part of war. I can guarantee that the Israelis take every precaution to minimize civilian casualties. However, in a war, civilian casualties are not unavoidable
And what i...
... Islamic state and end up as a hostage.
The second thing is that there is no clear separation between civilians and soldiers. It is much harder for a state do respond on attacks or even initiate at...
I've been told that German civilians sometimes lynched downed allied aircrew.
How common was this?
How the German authorities react?
Was anyone prosecuted for such a lynching after the war?
...rs to complete and the weapons could be dangerous centuries from now.
Later I was reading through some Civil War material and I got to thinking about UXOs and the Civil War, and a few questions came...
...when] a sharp analyst noticed some strange antennae on the battleship GRAF SPEE operating in the Spanish civil war. [The antennas were] later determined to be connected to a gun-laying ranging radar. ...
At the end of the series Shelby Foote recites DID IT NOT SEEM REAL. But right before mentions something written by Barry Benson about old veterans meeting here on Earth or in what sounded like BAL HAL
...y unbiased (if that's even possible) book on Andersonville? If it were to be on all similar camps of the civil war, that would be fine, but I'm more interested in Andersonville specifically. Thanks....
... the history of the United State up through the Missouri Compromise, suggest plausible ways in which the Civil War might have been avoided or averted. No fair killing off Abraham Lincoln prior to 1865...
when i took history 101 (western civilzation from 1700~present), we spent some time on ww2. according to the text, Fascism in Italy was defined was an Authoritarian Regime with some limitations (royal
...eir _own_ loss of prestige at losing the war. In other words, it was all right for their troops and even civilians to be urged to never surrender, but when it came to themselves, it was another story....
...sky and dumped them all over. germany and whole europe becoming hell. the beginning of end as we know as civilization. so we can see how important the eastern front was not because its fighting contri...
...d like to ask for some questions about the pre-second wold war. I am specially interested in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Basque Front, the Basque Autonomous Government, the Guernica destruction ...
... doo doo together and vote him out in the next election. The South does not start the CSA nor is there a Civil War. I will give you that Lincoln has an antislave agenda upfront. Now exactly what is Pr...
...ve merits of Lee and Grant. This was written by the late Paul Cowan, one of the first members on the alt Civil War newsgroup back before there was a soc one. I was sufficiently impressed by Paul's ana...
... 'God bless this Irish flag' From Joseph Bilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl ...
Since becoming retired, I have become very interested in the Civil War. I plan a visit from Florida to Gettysburg this summer. I know this is a very 'general' question. But, I'm looking for advise on
... main operation at Midway. Films from there show Japanese soldiers interrogating Americans who look like civilians (they didn't look like they were in very good condition). Can anyone tell me what hap...
...lk-show) they said that 750 troops died training for D-Day. That is surprising to me.
Also said 19,000 civilians died during the invasion. Any comments to these no.'s?
Why couldn't we get the tank...
...nal Service Company, U.S. Army Parachute Detachment, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Army Philippines Civil Affairs Units, (PCAU 1 - 30) U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Command, U.S. Army attached t...
...ng to compare Grant's prewar experiences with those of other Union commanders. Grant was unsuccessful in civilian life compare to McClellan and it contributed to his success in the war with determinat...
...ction of human remains of people who suffered from a wide variety of ailments. It also has an exhibit on Civil War medicine, complete with bones and skulls from wounded and killed soldiers. Special at...
... 'God bless this Irish flag' From Joseph Bilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl ...
Here is something I found in the files section of the Compuserve Civil War Forum. http://forums.compuserve.com/vlforums/default.asp?SRV=CivilWar
You've all probably seen at least part of the origina
... ft PC type craft accounted for several U Boats. Any other small craft credited with U boats? What about Civil Air Patrol aircraft? Most accounts list 2 U Boats as being sunk by CAP aircraft, but can ...
Given that it's Confederate it could probably be either. Wish I could read the writing on the back. It's almost certainly a coat button.
I'm leery of that stuff on E-bay. Always seems to be one 'ori
My wife says she has heard of an incident during the CW in which a group of civilians
...ave thought 'we fought a big war to rid the world of the evils of the Nazis who exterminated millions of civilians; do we really want to be like them?' when, for example, black people marched for equa...
Can anyone provide some useful links to online primary source documents pertaining to the Civil War? Specifically, I'm looking for diaries and letters.
I need research material concerning Chaplains in the Civil War. Can anyone help me with finding research material such as web sights, books, articles, films etc.
Thank you Russ Swope
War and sodomy have gone together since the days of the Greek hoplites and probably well before that. Were there documented cases of sodomy on either side of the conflict in the ACW. If so, how was th
... 'God bless this Irish flag' From Joseph Bilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl ...
... 'God bless this Irish flag' From Joseph Bilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl ...
...ome quick information from anybody in the group who studies the political side of the (beginning) of the Civil War. I believe I've read, although I'm not sure where and I can't find it, that Lincoln w...
Hello,
My name is Mike Lynaugh and I have a new book coming out on the Civil War. It will be out during the first week of November. The book is called, 'Ghosts of the Field.' I would like to get you
I've got a civil war powder flask that my grandfather gave me years ago, and I discovered it has a dozen names scribed onto it. I'd like to see if I can identify which unit they came from. Is there an
Anyone know any good battle tactics that were used in the Civil War?
... very old earthworks. It 6 ft wide with 3 to 4 ft foot high wall on both sides.
After looking a an old Civil War map, the site is marked as Dr Mann P Nelson's home. The earth works are indicated on ...
Hello, I have what looks like a Civil War era bayonet that I am trying to identify.
At the base of the blade are some halmarks. I will try to reproduce them here:
R ^ (the carat mark here is reall
..., the following link was posted in soc.culture.asian.american about 'Chinese soldiers' in the (American) Civil War...
James Longstreet's Civil War service is spotted with success and failures - sometimes bold; sometimes clumsy.
Here is my brief synopsis:
Bull Run - positioned on the right and away from the main b
May I ask the help of some Civil war buff in solving a problem I have come across. Whilst browsing through the pages of The Constitution or Cork Advertiser dated 12 August 1863 in our Cork City Librar
...e CSA war effort in any way was fair game, or 2) he was a merciless fiend who violated the principles of civilized warfare (oxymoron intended). Still others try to re-write history by claiming he kill...
...tice of slavery, he convinced himself that blacks were stupid and impulsive, and could not function in a civilized society on their own. Blacks had to be kept under control for their own good and the ...
Where can I find historical actual encrypted messages?
e.g. 1. Encrypted messages captured during Civil War.
thanks, russ
Post a follow-up to this message
With all the discussion about 'Gods and Generals,' it seems natural to ask: What Civil War movies would you like to see?
My candidate would be a movie about the voyage of the Alabama, ending, of cou
... lead to Lee's conduct of the campaign.
The second work, Taken at the Flood, does give the more astute Civil War enthusiast food for thought. He does devote an excessive amount of time analyzing cor...
In an effort to place a memorial headstone for a Union Civil War relative with the proper ceremony, a friend is seeking assistance in locating, hopefully, written instructions.
Does anyone have info
|
Latest Hot PhotosLatest Posts
|
Copyright © 2006 - Nov 2008 War History Fans