He later commented, “I was a horse ahead.”

(BTW, I did a writeup on him on one of those cards you have, Rev.)

REPLY: Those playing cards are way cool, thanks again. Which makes me think, maybe we should make up a set for the top climate alarmists.

The question: who is the Ace of Spades?

His future wife and her mother were leaving church in a buggy and got stuck in a creek bed. 3 or four naves surrounded the carriage and mocked their situation without helping. Nathan came up and beat the tar out of them and got them unstuck.

In the war, I read he had 27 (28?) horses shot out from under him.

He gave them yankees hell
and if they were damned,
he sent them there as well.

I have heard of John Brown’s Body recently so this is a coincidence.

Have you heard the story of how N.B. Forest met his future wife?

Have you ever read John Brown’s Body? (It’s the whole Civil War via poetry by Stephen Vincent Benet.)

Can we use a different acronym for the Civil War? I got old man eyes and you are really flustering the moderator.

Oh, I get it! ACW/AGW! Sorry about that!

It’s wargamers’ lingo. That’s how we speak on ConSimWorld.

As a designer of a Civil War game (with full storyboard from start to finish), I have been around the park twice or once on the arguments.

I have two huge boxes of all sorts of books on the subject. (Or is it three?) I can rattle off all the Confederate corps commanders and the Union army commanders by rote. Most of the southern divisional commanders and Union corps commanders, to boot.

Yes, I concede the cost was enormous. Yes I agree that the war itself and the aftermath were truly miserably handled. But worth it in spite of that. YMMV!

I don’t take the “politically correct” view of the south-as-worse-than-Hitler.
But make mine “the Flag With 34 Stars” so far as 1861-3 is concerned.

http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/FLAGS/us-1861.html

I have in fact gotten a little wargame weary on the subject over the past few years, so I will be happy simply to agree to disagree . . .

There are many who disagree. Please see:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/civilwar.html

It would seem that the outrageous tariff was a larger and more immediate threat to the pocketbook of Southerners than a farther-off possibility of slavery dying out over many years.

(poetSam has left this land
he’ll say no more,
he’s out the door)

I see ACW was “all about slavery” and that’s really confusing in this particular blog space.