Lincoln's First Sixty Days

[dawna]

Thea:

Now it is my turn to be pressed for time but I'll look forward to reading your posting tonight.

Private Dawna

[dawna]

I can't find very much written about General Buford and it appears that he is one of the unsung heroes of Gettysburg. Chamberlain received everything that he so richly deserved, but I can't help but think that Buford's efforts on the first day of battle were pretty much glossed over. Holding off A.P. Hill's men for several hours and then assisting throughout the day seems well worth more than a mention.

Dawna

[hoosier]

Thea, I think the smiley face is the result of typing a colon immediately followed by a close-parenthesis mark. I believe Mike's system is programmed to automatically display a smiley face when it sees those two punctuation marks, consecutively and in that order.

I'm going to test this hypothesis right now. After the period following this sentence, I'm going to type a colon and close-parenthesis and see what comes up.

Hey, I was right.

[thea_447]

Thanks, George, I }thought it was some sort of glitch like that but I wasn't sure. I'll have to be careful about this sort of thing because I don't want a smiley showing up when I've just said something that was very serious. People will accuse me of be flippant about serious issues.

I appreciate you figuring it out..Now here's a real smiley!
Thea

[georgiana]

You may want to check-out the website maintained by J.D. Petruzzi…an outstanding online resource on “Buford’s Boys”…

Books by Ed Longacre (<u>General John Buford: A Military Biography</u> and <u>The Cavalry at Gettysburg</u>) as well as Eric Wittenberg’s <u>Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions</u> are also excellent choices…

http://www.bufordsboys.com/MainPage.htm

[thea_447]

Oops! Now I forgot to close my italics! There sure is a lot of stuff to remember when writing on the boards.

I must have forgotten to take my Gingko Biloba this morning! I guess it's really true what they say: Growing old ain't for sissies!

[gray_ghost]

Hello everyone. I am new to the site. I hope no one minds if I chime in on this topic.

H. Hinkle wrote:

>> "The Constitution had indeed been broken; by the unilateral secession of the southern states."

Where exactly in the Constitution does it say that a state can not secede?

The 10th Amendment, ratified on Dec 15th of 1791, states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This would cover the right of a state to secede from the Union.

If you would like, I can list for you all of Lincoln's infractions against the Constitution.

Thea has the right of it in her very eloquent and well thought out posts. Sumter was nothing more than an excuse for Northern invasion to force the South back into the Union.

[gray_ghost]

Whoops. My name should have shown up as Gray Ghost, not my name. I have changed it.

[dawna]

If I may Carl, I was wondering about this because in my previous post, I was questioning the Constitution being broken by President Lincoln, not the South.

Dawna

[bokscar]

Where exactly in the Constitution does it say that a state can secede?
Some rights specifically forbidden to the states are the right to coin money, raise armies and ,of course, joining confederations.