Primary source pleasure reading

[infomanpa]

I finished the Bachelder Papers, now I'm reading the Official Reports.
I'm guessing that most people use them for reference, but does anyone actually read them from beginning to end? (Big Gettysburg nerd)

 

[Scott Brown]

Me! And you can add Gettysburg Sources and Gettysburg Papers to my pleasure reading list

 

[Elliot Crumblemuffin]

I finished the Bachelder Papers, now I'm reading the Official Reports.
I'm guessing that most people use them for reference, but does anyone actually read them from beginning to end? (Big Gettysburg nerd)

I read the official records all the way through on the Ohio University website when I should have been working . I really didn't know what I was reading but I couldn't stop myself. Now, I'll go back every now-and-then to brush up if I have a question.

 

[lelliott19]

I once read one complete volume of the Confederate A&IGO Records of Courts Martial. Once I started, I couldn't stop.

 

[infomanpa]

I once read one complete volume of the Confederate A&IGO Records of Courts Martial. Once I started, I couldn't stop.

I can't top that, Laura.

 

[infomanpa]

I read the official records all the way through on the Ohio University website when I should have been working . I really didn't know what I was reading but I couldn't stop myself. Now, I'll go back every now-and-then to brush up if I have a question.

I was able to download the OR as pdf files from the Cornell website. Now, I can read them on my tablet/laptop.

 

[DixieRifles]

I was able to download the OR as pdf files from the Cornell website. Now, I can read them on my tablet/laptop.

Do they have that available in audio books??

 

[lelliott19]

I can't top that, Laura.

They are pretty faded and hand-written too....in old scratchy, cursive longhand.

 

[Elliot Crumblemuffin]

Do they have that available in audio books??

I'd pay top dollar for someone like Matthew McConaughey to narrate them

 

[lelliott19]

I'd pay top dollar for someone like Matthew McConaughey to narrate them

MY vote is for Dennis Haysbert. You know. The Allstate guy? I can hear him narrating the OR now.