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Time to send in the Old Guard.

Her dad probably bombed a northern Irish police station. So he bought.

More Scottish than Irish, but I dated an Irish girl once. I bought her a potato once.

Wouldn't you want to know, Yankee?

Who knows what had happened if he had been risen to corps command, But he was an ideal division commander. A survivor of Franklin said he knew Cleburne was dead when the order to counterattack wasn't given.

Today is Patrick Cleburne's birthday. His brigade as part of Hardee's Corps advanced through Rhea Spring consisting of the 15th Arkansas advanced as skirmishers, and from left to right the 24th Tennessee, The 23rd Tennessee, Hill's 35th Tennessee, Bate's 2nd Tennessee, the 23rd Tennessee, and...

Beauregard's evacuation of Corinth was one of the more impressive feats of the war. He had the musicians stay in the camps to stoke the fires and play music. He also ordered the men to cheer as they boarded the rail cars to make the Federals think they were being reinforced.

Is that why the Confederate dead of Fort Mahone (April, 1865) are mostly wearing almost brand new imported Tait style jackets, new shoes, and accoutrements? This was just days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Adolphus Confederate Uniforms

The idea of the "ragged rebel" is really exaggerated. Sure, there are examples where the Confederate armies were in really bad shape like the Antietam Campaign, and Price's 1864 Missouri Raid. However, there are also several examples where the Confederates were better uniformed and supplied than...

The Federals were really good at moving men and resources when a major city was under threat. During the Kentucky Campaign, Kirby Smith sent roughly 8,000 Confederates under Henry Heth to make a demonstration against Cincinnati. The Federals were able to organize over 80,000 troops to defend it...

No, that's one of the bigger myths about Shiloh. Colonel Everett Peabody's decision to send out the reconnoitering patrol and them stumbling into the Confederates in Fraley Field let the Federals know that the Confederate army was there in force. The Federals were surprised by the bold move...

That place sucks.