Sam I love it. Brought me to tears. I think I'll send this to our Tarawa friends.
Interesting post, Sam. I just have a problem with McClellan threads - that guy really rubs me the wrong way. He may have started to Antietam in a timely fashion - I hadn't seen the new info claiming that - but he surely lost the opportunity to win a decisive victory with his typical lack of skill as a battlefield commander.
Also an interesting theory about Chilton. Any historians speculate about that or is this all your theory, Sam?