Please update me on Mr. Cockerham..?
Edward, it's difficult to try to extoll Larry's virtues in one post, so I'll just direct you to this:
larry_cockerham
You might click on "view forum posts" and just start reading somewhere. He was a member of this board for many years, and a very knowledgable person on the Civil War. Not only was he informed - especially about the great Confederate cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and also the Army of Tennessee and its travails in November of '64 during the battles of Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville, but his posts were always civil, polite, congenial, respectful, courteous. When I first joined the board in 2005 under another username I knew nothing about the Army of Tennessee, or Forrest. From reading his posts over the years I feel like I am at least informed on those subjects.
He passed away just a few days ago, at the still fairly young age of 63, very suddenly and unexpectedly, of a heart attack, and those of us who have been on this site for years, and even the new folks, who read his posts, mourn his passing, not just because he will no longer give us information on the aforementioned topics, but also because in debate, and in general discourse here, he was always, truly, a Southern gentleman, in every sense of the term.