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I have very much enjoyed this board and all participants. It has taught me allot about the CW and allot about people in general. I think that this is one of the most open boards out there. I have scoped out a few others, but none are as user friendly, open minded, usefull, and well, just the greatest bunch of people I have had the pleasure to meet. Thank you for doing such a wonderful job putting together such a great gathering place. I can't even imagine what kind of complaints you would have received. My only complaints are my own, that I am not a computer geek and sometimes get frustrated with my own doings.
Thanks again so much for putting up with all of us and giving all of us a place to share, gab, debate, and meet people with the same common love of the Civil War.
Bill & Ami,
Great site. I enjoy it much and I've met some people that I now consider to be my friends. There is a lot of good info on this site.
Thanks, Martin
__________________ "I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it."
--Lew Wallace, 1885
I suppose to a statistician this may or may not mean something, but it seems to me that it means that on this site, there are more people here, with more CW interests, and with more opinions/points of information, than on the other sites (tho I don't know of any other good ones with which to compare).
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"It was a very peculiar time." - Franklin D. Cossitt
Ancestors in USA Army: 6th IA Inf, 11th IL Cav, 1st AL Cav; 122nd NY Inf; 6th MI Cav; 35th MA Inf; 100th IL Inf; 1st CO Inf/Cav; 22nd IN Inf
I have found this board to be filled to the rim with information. Being new to the ranks of reenactors with my famly included I have found this board invaluable. Thanks for all the help and information!!!!!
__________________ " WAR IS HELL" LG Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
I find this place where I can be surrounded by other civil war "buffs". Its just like reenactments, I get to spend the weekend with History buffs! But this is better I can spend 24/7 here
Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
I have been posting here at CivilWarTalk for a long time now, and I just thought I ought to take a few moments and thank you both for providing this excellent forum on the Civil War.
I have learned so much from so many learned people here, but none of it would have taken place if you both had not made the effort to provide this place for me and all the others who come here.
Thank you for putting up with me and my own very set ways and thanks for helping me learn so much about my favorite time in history.
It is deeply appreciated.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
And now ... the rest of the story. This darn board eats up all my time. Check the mail when I get up. Check the mail sometime midday. Check the mail right before bed time. It's a convenient excuse for breaking up a project -- time to check the mail. Hanging the door can wait, checking the mail can't. You should be ashamed of yourself for putting such addictive stuff out there.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln