- Joined
- Nov 26, 2016
- Location
- central NC
I realize the poll choices are narrow in scope. That’s why posting a response is so important.
lelliott19. Progress Report: How is your regimental history book coming? I cannot wait to read it. If you are looking for an independent person to look over your manuscript I would be more than happy to help you? David.For me, it's definitely the people and their stories. Since Im researching a specific regiment, its usually people and stories closely associated - like their regiment, brigade or division. But, sometimes, I get intrigued by someone else - in another corps, or army, or on the other side of the conflict - and run down that rabbit hole for a while until Ive satisfied my curiosity. And then its back to Longstreet's corps.
Members of CWT and visitors to the site are likely interested in the Civil War. We have discussed in another thread why we first became interested in the topic. So, what aspect of the Civil War interests you most? Respond to the poll and then elaborate in a post. There seems to be a theory that guys are drawn to the military aspect and females are drawn to the people. Let’s try and find out if that’s true here at CWT.
I realize the poll choices are narrow in scope. That’s why posting a response is so important.
Georgia Sixth...Cavalry or Infantry?At first, as a boy, my entire interest was in the battles and how they unfolded. Later, I became interested in key individuals on both sides (I cannot begin to describe my distress at how vilely R.E. Lee is considered by so many). Then, it was the common soldier who caught my fascination as I began to truly understand what a charnel house civil war combat was -- how could they ever go into combat after surviving their first experience of it? What motivated them? Yet later, it was how the war was survived on the southern homefront, the civilians who found the war arriving at their front porches, most particularly, those living along the routes of the different "hard war" marches and those living in the god awful chaos of the guerilla war along the Arkansas/Missouri and Tennesse/Kentucky border areas. That still holds my attention very much, but to it I've added a sincere "agnostic" desire to understand what people were thinking at the time, how they saw their world, how they understood the American compact and how they justified continuing to engage (or resist) the war.