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Does somebody have numbers on how many people fought against their 'own' side ? Any good sources to look it all up ?
I am searching for a map that shows southern France, particularly around Marseilles, at about 1942-1944. I need a map that shows roads in the area, and, if at all possible, where any German installati
...fter Northerner Eli Whitney had designed his famous cotton gin, and cotton production was booming. In fact, Southern cotton production increased from an estimated 11,000 bales in 1793, to an estimated...
Northerners say, 'There ain't no hell.' Southerners say, 'The hell there ain't!!'
...ere and I can't find it, that Lincoln was left off the ballot for the election of 1860 in most, if not all, southern states. True? If true...was each individual state in the 19th century in charge of ...
...aves. His older brother Joseph was at one time the richest planter in Mississippi. Davis, like most white Southerners, did not believe slavery was just _in_ _general_. (Unlike the notorious George F...
...other words they did just what you say they had no chance to do with regards to amphibous landings( here in Southern California) through out the Pacific Basin during that time period. That was was one...
... Tom Breiner, and is posted with his permission. Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862, by Joseph L. Harsh, The Kent State University Press, Kent, OH,...
...eally minor battles where only a small amount of casualties took place. The battles need to take place in a Southern state...and the Union is the victor. Thanks....
...ties as the Northern League, demanding the secession of all regions north of the Po River from impoverished southern Italy and Sicily and the foundation of the independent state of 'Padania,' testifie...
To all participants in this newsgroup: The moderators have become quite concerned over the thread titled 'Southern Honor' for several reasons. Much of the discussion has drifted off-topic, concern
.... The Union skirmishers cheered when they witnessed the act of kindness. Upon returning to his lines, the Southerner yelled, 'Get down Yanks, we're going to fire again.' Does anyone have any idea ...
... serious scholar will see the forum as a serious place of information, instead of an ongoing combat between Southern and Northern sympathizers. ******************************************************...
...s of water, i.e., Army of the Ohio, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Cumberland, and Army of the Tennessee. Southern armies were often named after geographical areas, i.e, Army of Northern Virginia, A...
...ign country, when she clearly did; she had all the things that make a sovereign country. Then there's the Southern members of Congress who quit as the war was breaking out, such as U.S. Sen. Jeffers...
...detail and the property master did an excellent job. There's hardly a false note in it. They even got the Southern uniforms and insignia right. General Robert E. Lee is properly wearing Colonel's...
...tle according to microfilm at the US National Archives: 89 PzVI 's(Tiger tank) were on-hand to the entire southern Front, Kursk, 4th July 1943. Day (PzVI - Destroyed and Abandonded) 4 0 5 2 6 1 7 ...
... drive the Federal government out of D.C. in an attempt to gain the support of the UK/France while boosting Southern moral, if they happen to get lucky and hit the White House killing Lincoln in the p...
The subject of secession is usually discussed in regards to the Southern States. Do those who support the theory that the legality of secession is unquestionable also support the the theory that had a
...ternative to standing siege was to break out. So the Confederates concentrated their forces, attacked the southern end of the Union encirclement, and broke through. Then, thanks to Pillow, they retr...
One of the more persistent and peculiar charges the Federals make in connectiuon with the War for Southern Independence is that of 'treason'. The constitutional definiton of treason is given, very cle
QUEENSTOWN SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. A large ship called the Southerner arrived in tow on Thursday evening from Liverpool, and concerning her much conversation has passed as it is rumoured her intended
...world conquest. You are looking only at the military operations plan and its goals for the capture of the Southern Resource Area. Japan had broad policy goals and strategies for many generations whi...
...g, and the South won the war...............then, how long would it have taken for most, if not all of the Southern states to have rejoined the Union. It would have been the logical progression espec...
...'s or early 1980's is the approximate date of the this news report. What the report stated was that at some Southern National or State Civil War Park. There was a plan to build a replica Civil War Iro...
In early 1943, a series of air battles were fought over the Kuban region of southern Russia. Now, I have no information as to details, but apparently it was during these battles that the Red AF gained
...f both the north and the south the biggest question that always lingers in my mind is why did Lee and other southern generals use conventional military tactics against a generally stronger and better ...
I was reading a collection of stories by Irvin S. Cobb about Judge Priest of Paducah, Kentucky, and in one of them a whole town is moved by the singing of this song some 20 years after the war was ove
...t Jews), was very strong. FDR did not have unlimited power over the US. He had to deal with Republicans and southern Democrats in Congress, who often were not in agreement with him. Getting a Fair Emp...
...avel? Denied permission? Did they need special passes? Basically, how did Northern soldiers treat wealthy southern land-owners on the run? My knowledge of US Civil War history is abysmal (I'm an E...
OK, what would have happened during Lincoln's presidency if there had been no secession? Wouldn't the southern interests had an effective control of Congress with their Dem friends from the north? No
I have read the above term, 'Black Republican,' in connection with the ACW more times than I can remember, but I have never found why the term was used or what its origin is. Can anyone on the news
There is, I think, a general presumption that when the topic of slavery is discussed, Southerners will concede that it was their peculiar institution, and that they alone should bear moral responsibil
...gged them not to become the aggressor and fire the first shot. Okay,here is the point.Can you tell me why southerners of that era considered Lincoln's address 'incendiary'? An Alabama newspaper pr...
...a very interesting discussion, and I thought this NG migh enjoy it: One of the most popular scenarios for Southern victory and independence in the ACW involves British and French intervention on the...
...h was a rural and rugged country, twice as large as the U.S. had been in 1776. Fighting a defensive war the Southerners could count on high morale,interior lines,and knowledge of the terrain., that is...
Following the end of hostilities in 1865, did any significant number of Southerners seek to enlist in the US Army? The peacetime one I mean - I'm not thinking of Unionists diring the war. If so were t
Perhaps the most odious and opprobrious aspect relative to the War for Southern Independence is the abject and comlete abrogation of the revered political principle upon which this country was founded
SO.........the winners get to write history...and read it too? ;-) > (sent to Mr Huddleston...because I lost the original thread and address...and knew he might get a kick out of it ;-)..thanks fo
I am looking for one who may have access to the multi volume copy of the magazine Southern Bivouac and would be willing to copy an article for me. I wish to obtain a copy of an article written by Ge
I read I while back in a book about Hood's 1864 invasion that more southerners were killed at Franklin than any other day of battle. Is this true? And what was it about this battle that made it so dea
...t three miles long yet the Japanese never discovered it until their army troops stumbled across it in their southern advance...... Of General Sir John Laverack's infantry division only an advance part...
It has been demonstrated beyond dispute that during The War for Southern Independence, the federals violently trampled the sacred unalienable right of government by consent. The federals answer that n
...promulgated in Jefferson's Declarartion on the one hand, while simultaneously excoriating, as traitors, the Southern Confederates on the other hand. It is of course true that the Declaration is a poli...
...sed? How were they marked by voters? General histories state that Lincoln's name was 'not on the ballot' in Southern states. Does this mean every candidate was on a single ballot, or were there no bal...
... supplies shipped through harbors in the Persian Gulf, Iran or even India? Then transshipped by road to the Southern USSR? Thanks. LDM e-mail address utterly fanciful....
One of the more persistent myths surrounding the War for Southern Independence is that the United States waged war against the Confederate States to liberate African slaves. This is false. The institu
...autey (at the northern extreme of the Moroccan invasion), the other at Bou Guedra, inland from Safi (at the southern extreme of the Moroccan invasion). All of my sources agree that the first unit to s...
...untry as I did you would understand what I meen. At that time the Japanese could have walked ashore here in Southern California and not gotten there feet wet, and we all thought they would. So I have ...
...in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State...' The seceding Southern States which ultimately formed the CSA, in their final act as member States of a co...
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