Tell us about the U-Boat on display in Galveston. Tell us which college the professor who said the oft-repeated "only 10,000 people gave a damn about the plight of the slaves" quote taught at (Grambling, Tulane, or Tuskegee--you've had him at all three). Tell us about the 1851 Moline steam tractor, made by a company that wouldn't be founded for another 15 years and wouldn't make their first tractor for 65 years. Tell us the name of your 8-year-old ancestor who was killed by the yankees (be careful, you've given her two different names over the years). Tell us why "Yachts Against Subs" and "The Annals of Old Missouri" don't appear in any library catalog or bookseller listing. Put up the e-mail I allegedly sent to you saying I'd never address you on these threads again. Show where I've said anything remotely racist as you've accused.
Oh, I picked up a copy of "Blacks in Blue and Gray" the other day. A rather slender volume, I have to say. The most interesting thing, though, was the discovery that H.C. Blackerby (the H is for Hubert, by the way, and he also wrote "Great Civil War Stories" in 1961), wasn't the chair of the history department at Tuskegee. Instead he turns out to be the publisher of "mass market publications" as it says on the book jacket. A little more research uncovers some of his titles:
