[Sacajaweau]

No one ever questions the “Rightgeousness” of the Civil War. Was it right?

[mainepatsfan]

ping

[MplsSteve]

Have you thought of doing a daily PING list for this thread?

I think there’s be a significant amount of interest in such a PING list.

[Moose4]

One very minor nit to pick—it’s not “Fort Royal, Virginia,” it’s “Front Royal, Virginia.”

}:-)4

[STONEWALLS]

“Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks Army of the Gulf continues encricling Port Hudson, LA in preparation for an assault.”

....in preparation for the looting, rape and burning of Louisiana....see:
“War Crimes against Southern Civilians” by Walter Brian Cisco
http://www.amazon.com/War-Crimes-Against-Southern-Civilians/dp/158980466X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211554209&sr=1-1

....if your local public library doesn’t have a copy they can get it thru inter-library loan for you.

[Joe 6-pack]

Thanks for these interesting posts. As a Pennsylvania native, Gettysburg College grad, Army veteran and military history buff who chooses to reside in the deep south, I like to think I have a pretty unique perspective on the Civil War...and view it as possibly history's only example of two wrongs actually making a right. Both sides had their share of noble, virtuous, heroic men and outright scoundrels.

I can simultaneously view both Sherman and Lee as battlefield geniuses in their own right, one being the ultimate, dramatic conclusion of one book of warfare, and the other being the opening chapter of something completely new and unprecedented...but both being distinct reflections of the American character.

[Non-Sequitur]

May 23, 1861 - Virginia voters approve secession by a vote of 97,750 to 32,134.

There's an interesting sidepoint to that fun fact. And that is on May 9, 1861, two weeks before the vote, Virginia was admitted to the confederacy. I wonder what would have happened if the vote had gone against secession?