Stole this one, too...
Posted on 02/08/2005 9:43:31 PM PST by SAMWolf
I STOLE it! :)
Feel free to do the same!
FWIW, I get the impression you're a history buff . . . hope to have more exchanges like this on future Foxhole threads. Well, duty calls . . . goodnight.
"Schultz's lively writing is perfectly suited to the exciting and controversial Yankee cavalry raid against Richmond, Va., in late winter 1864. . . . The subject and Schultz's lucid prose make this a great addition to any Civil War library."-Publishers Weekly
March 5, 1864, was the day on which the Civil War changed to what the Richmond Examiner called "a war of extermination, of indiscriminate slaughter and plunder." It changed because of a few sheets of paper found on a muddy trail outside Richmond. Their legacy was a new and terrible style of warfare.
In a daring but failed cavalry raid to free thousands of Union prisoners, the Union commander-twenty-one-year-old Ulric Dahlgren-was killed; on his body were found orders purportedly instructing his men to find and execute Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate cabinet. There was an immediate outpouring of horrified, indignant rage throughout the South, and after the Union disclaimed any knowledge of the papers or the order they contained, Jefferson Davis authorized the use of terrorism against civilians in the North in the form of guerrilla raids, bank robberies, arson, and sabotage.
This compelling narrative is the first full-length analysis of the link between Dahlgren's failed raid and the Confederate campaign of terror.
"[A] wonderfully vivid portrait of Confederate attempts to stir up rebellion in the North during the war's waning days. . . . Schultz handles all of this melodramatic material with vigor and clarity, a first-rate addition to the bulging shelves of Civil War Studies."-Kirkus Reviews Duane Schultz is the author of two novels and eight nonfiction histories. He lives in Clearwater, Florida.
In her The New Blacklist: Acknowledgements, Ann Coulter, Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Crown, 2003, Coulter writes:
Deserving of the most hysterical liberal blacklisting for helping me write this book are: M. Stanton Evans, the world's leading authority on Senator Joseph McCarthy, who gave me--gratis--original research for my brief version of a topic he will cover in meticulous detail in his forthcoming book. . . .
I had the pleasure of watching Evans dispatch Dr. Robert Risk President of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union in debate in 1964. My fellow YAFers and I then had a spirited shouting match with Risk's camp followers, archetypal bearded Marxists shouting slogans, spitting foam.
McCarthy was forty years in his grave when proof of his correctness was released by the U.S. government, July 11, 1995, in the form of the Venona Project's decrypted Soviet cables.
Who was wrong? Truman, Acheson, Murrow and a legion of liberals from then til now.
Who was right?
Joe McCarthy.
Nine years after Venona's first release, June 18, 2004, Vladimir "Soul Man" Putin announced that the countries of the CIS "are now working to restore what was lost with the fall of the Soviet Union but are doing it on a new, modern basis."
LOL! Does it come in black and White?
Evening Phil Dragoo.
Thanks for the info on the book.
Looks like a whole new aspect of the WBTS to be explored.
IMHO, Puten is not to be trusted.
LOL. I just now saw your tagline. You nut!
Interesting. Thanks Phil.
BTT!!!!!!
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