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Comment on Ulysses S. Grant – U.S. Lieutenant General by Asus T101mt

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Comment on Remembering Abraham Lincoln by CivilWarTalk

CivilWarTalk — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:20:13 +0000

I don’t know that there is anything wrong with stating that in one person’s view, Lincoln’s Presidency was brought about by Divine Intervention. How many times have we read about a general who believed that battlefield conditions were “Divine Providence”, and that the outcome was “As God willed it”.

I’m not sure, as a previous commented implied, that our historians need to be atheist in order for them to have a non-biased opinion. That’s just silly.

Comment on Confederate Goliath by rad2duhbone53

rad2duhbone53 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:49:09 +0000

Do you have any audio blogs on the Irish Brigade? (specifically the 88th NYSV?)

Comment on The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House – A New Level of Fighting by A Distant Death | Tom Rizzo Blog

A Distant Death | Tom Rizzo Blog — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:56:35 +0000

[...] away, Union forces had gathered for what would become the costliest campaign of the war—the Battle of Spotsylvania County, Virginia—in which more than 32,000 soldiers would [...]

Comment on Interview with John C. Waugh, author of Lincoln and McClellan by Little Mac

Little Mac — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:03:26 +0000

John, I have read your book through three times and I am committing whole sections to memory. I am a member of the Confederation of Unon Generals, and your book has helped me tremendously in my Living History portrayal of George B McClellan!

YOS

Comment on Remembering Abraham Lincoln by Mark Dye

Mark Dye — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:02:20 +0000

I find it absurd and abhorrent that Mr. Jacobson needed to explain Lincoln as so called “divine intervention”. Why is it so hard to accept that he was a competent politician who rose to level of statesman in a crisis? Do this also mean that Jefferson Davis was the spawn of Hell rather than a micro-manager of a flawed clause. If Mr. Jacobson feels a need to filter his to history through the Old Testament or Greek hero myths, he was either deeper in his cups than you or he admitted to or he is bankrupt as a historian. The fact that both sides appealed to the Deity and assumed they were on the favored side does not mean that God choose one or the other, or even exists at all.
How much more virulent or quicker could the secession crisis have been if Seward or Stanton had been elected? South Carolina’s reactionaries had been calling for secession since the Nullification Crisis in the 1820′s and every crisis between then and 1860. If a moderate, like Lincoln, had them working for secession before the election was over, how could Seward or Stanton got them any more worked up without catching fire?

Comment on The Battle of Chancellorsville – Joe Hooker’s Legacy by Bob Frazier

Bob Frazier — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:59:46 +0000

“Unfortunately, Lee quickly deduced what Hooker’s plans were”

Really?

Comment on The 55th Illinois Infantry Regiment by Brian Simcoe

Brian Simcoe — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:46:28 +0000

Correction, Jacob Simcox was in C co 55th Ill.

Comment on The 55th Illinois Infantry Regiment by Brian Simcoe

Brian Simcoe — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:41:14 +0000

My great, great grandfather Jacob Simcox, was a Cpl in D co 55th Ill. He was wounded (shot in the buttox) but, I can’t find where (which battle) the injury occured. Would you have any information, or point me in the direction of the information? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Brian Simcoe

Comment on Fort Fisher State Historic Site – a photo essay by Bob Dispenza

Bob Dispenza — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:00:32 +0000

Lt. Cmdr. Breese’s force was not only 400 Marines, but also 1,600 sailors, drawn from many of the ships in the squadron. The sailors attacked armed mainly with cutlasses and pistols (though some were armed with Sharps and Spencer rifles and Sharps & Hankins carbines) and were repulsed.