1. one said that John Singleton Mosby was the CIC of the "slave-owners army" (he was,of course,a COL of partisan rangers.)
2. one maintained that the Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville occurred in MS & AL.(that will be a REAL surprise to the National Park Service!)
3.one said that BG Stand Watie was "a notorious trader to the Cherokees". (i THINK that he may have meant "traitor", though that in itself is an IGNORANT, SILLY position.)
4.one said (i think it was cvn76) that "every rebel in the country should have been exterminated in 1865".
5. one cannot tell the difference in a BOOK REVIEW in a magazine & THE BOOK itself.
6.one said that "all redskins" are a bunch of drunks, idiots & welfare-cheats.
7. one said that he believes that NOBODY in NY makes "Antisemitic statements any more".
8. one evidently thinks that everything on the "worldwidewierd" is FACTUAL, FAIR & complete AND that anything he can't find on the "www" NEVER happened.
and then you wonder why MOST FReepers avoid conversing with "the coven members" as if they were passing out free cases of the Avian Flu???
free dixie,sw
All you gotta do is prove that the book exists, Watie. That's all. One link to a library catalog. One link to a second-hand bookseller's listing. One academic footnote. Until then, though, it goes down as a lie, especially since what you claim the book said--that there's a privateer-captured WW2 U-Boat in display in a Galveston park--was such an obvious fabrication.
I'd also like to see some evidence that the book "The Annals of Old Missouri" exists, too. You'd think the Missouri historical society or one of the state universities would have it, but apparently not.
Hey, guess what I did on my lunch hour! I wandered over to the library near my office (mostly to check out the "Friends of the Library" book sale), and went to the periodical department. Turns out they had a whole collection of "Motor Boating and Sailing" magazines in bound volumes, including the December, 1972 edition. And on page 46, "The Picket Patrol--Yachts Against Subs" by L.B.N. Gnaedinger. Guess what! It's not a book review! Actually, after three paragraphs of italicized intro material, it says: "What follows is a record of the background and some personal memories of this curious patrol. The men who reminisce here are laconic and modest--they obviously don't see themselves as heroes. We disagree. --Editor."
As soon as I get a chance, I'll scan the copies I made (not very good, given crummy library copiers and the difficulty of copying from a thick bound book, but they get the idea across) and I'll post them for everyone to enjoy.