Name is Johnny, have been studying the CW since I was in grade school. Main interests in war are soldiers genealogy, battles of Chickamauga, Fredericksburg, and small battles in East Tennessee. I am also keenly interested in Southern battle flags. I can help research southern service records if anyone needs assistance just let me know. Seems like a nice pleasant forum unlike some others I have seen.
Hope you enjoy your time here and get involved with some of our debate threads.
I notice in your personal profile that you are interested with or participate in ham radio.
May I ask, is your log-in name also your callsign? I used to be in the US Army and was with the Army Security Agency, monitoring foreign morse code communications with the old R-390 radio receivers.
Sometimes I miss listening in on the old code signals, but then I wake up, take my medication, and remember all the static and QRM I had to work through.
Anyway, welcome and I hope you enjoy your time here.
Sincerely,
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
I certainly hope that you will enjoy exploring throughout the entire forums setup. Lot of things can just sneak into a forum where it is really good topic/subject/knowledge matter.
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Now, if you were to use naughty language --please don't.
Please know there are many ages who read and write on the forums. This is why Civil War Talk is fairly friendly and polite.
Look forward to your posts.
Respectfully submitted for consideration,
M. E. Wolf
Welcome from Texas!! and you are correct, the folks you'll meet here are nice, friendly and know a thing or two or three just about anything CW you can think of.
Howdy Johnny: Thanks for declaring your allegiance so soon, so we don't have to guess. (We'd find out eventually) So, what's the deal with East Tennessee? Have you ancestors in that region? Just curious. Welcome to the board. This is the premier board in the world, on the Civil War, and it doesn't cost anything to join. What's wrong with this picture?..nothin... as long as you're honest. If you're not, you get called on it. There's some smart folks here. Watch out!
Respectfully,
Leland
__________________ "What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance."
Thanks for the welcome guys. unionblue my callsign on ham radio is KE4MYW, I have been a ham for about 14 years now and enjoying every minute. If you go to www.qrz.com and do a callsign search on my call you can see a photo of my equipment. glorybound, when it comes to east tennessee campaigns i live just across the line in NC and a few local units fought there and I have friends and relatives that live close to the fairgarden battlefield. There was a lot of missed chances in that area for the confederates especially when Longstreet had his troops there.
I had ancestors in 58th NC Inf, 2nd Battalion NC Inf, 29th NC Inf, Thomas Legion, 5th Battalion NC Calvary.
Been travelling a bit so I haven't had a chance to say, "Welcome." Let me correct that deficiency now.
__________________ "There must be more historians of the Civil War than there were generals figthing in it... Of the two groups, the historians are the more belligerent." David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered (1961)
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