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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 09:58 PM Original message |
December 20, 1860. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. Welcome outside of the Sports Forum, Condem! |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Later impeached, mad. |
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Lucinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Thank you for mentioning the NYT coverage |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. One of the best union generals was a southerner, his men fought |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Let's hear about it, bluestate. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. You talking about General George Thomas? |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 01:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Beat me to it! |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:29 PM Response to Reply #32 |
51. I think the general's last name was Johnston. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:16 PM Response to Reply #51 |
55. Bad choice, Johnston was a confederate general. Puke. nt |
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man4allcats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'll have to be mostly an observer on this thread since I'm not so well versed, |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Thank you, man4allcats. |
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man4allcats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. 15?! That's all I need to know! |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. My goosebumps were highest at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Been there many a time. But it's been a score since the last visit. |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Not familiar with the battle with Walmart ... |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 04:13 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Looks like we lost. |
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GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 02:54 PM Response to Reply #33 |
47. I've been there... |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. YEAHAAAAA!!!! |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. LOL, El. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. You fool! The Alabambians got their asses kicked. |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. 3 regiments of Texans were on that hill. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Bull! Show me. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It was July 3rd. One day after Little Round Top. |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Sorry, El. |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. 4th and 5th with remnants of the 1st. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 02:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
35. Ok |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 03:04 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Excellent, hoot. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #35 |
49. The Texans did not attack Chamberlain's 20th Maine. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:22 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. No one claimed they did |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:59 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Personally I prefer Longstreet's statement... |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. I prefer Pickett's statement at Gettysburg, El. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 10:00 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Um... |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Who's talking about the Whole South? |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:03 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. My bad, hoot. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 11:08 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. snort |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 01:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Wrong flag, I believe |
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14thColony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:25 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Your observation is correct |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. This was a last step in a process that started 20 years before |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. It was an inevitable powderkeg, nadin. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
52. According to one record. |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:12 AM Response to Reply #9 |
61. god yes! I feel like I'm looking at James Buchanan and the Whigs |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
17. Traitors. |
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GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 06:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
43. as defined by the victors? nt |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Nope. Just stinking rotten traitors. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:56 PM Response to Reply #43 |
53. People that fought for the confederacy were traitors. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
20. All I know about it I learned from genealogy |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 10:54 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Here's the deal, csziggy. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 12:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Yeah, by the number of widows just in the family |
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GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
48. Tough spot - Antietam cornfield |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
23. "Here is where treason began and, by God, here is where it'll end!" n/t. |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 11:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. John Brown's body lies a lyin' in the grave... |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #24 |
40. I think his body lies "a-mold'ring" in the grave |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
25. Around these parts |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. Ever since I spotted your post I've been digging around in my computer room/library for a neat |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
28. There was some other action too. My great-great grandfather |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
31. Here's the piece from the NY Times, who will follow the Civil War in the opinionator. |
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GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
36. +1!!! Cool thread. Love to read people who KNOW Civil War facts. nt |
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Condem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Well, GS. I was too young for the centennial (born in '59) |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
41. The other December Day of Infamy. -nt |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
44. Is that anywhere near Fort Sumter? |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:19 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Yes it's right underneath it. |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #46 |
62. Clever, indeed! Go Steelers! |
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