Bucket list

Michael Macfarlan's bucket list:
Item # 2 - "Make an environmentally friendly and perfect pair of underwear."

The Truth About the Civil War

Mr. Bettwy while your previous post was extremely helpful in educating us all about the Civil War, I could not help but notice your own personal opinions coming forth. Yes the articles you listed were quite insightful, but they in no way would lead a person to conclude such preposterous ideas as that Stonewall Jackson were a lesser general than his authority General Lee. You see Mr. Bettwy we would like to keep the integrity of this blog sound and comments such as yours will only lead poor uneducated souls into believing ideas founded on lies and biased thinking. In order to give our other bloggers a fair assessment of the debate between General Lee and General Stonewall Jackson I have provided some additional information. If you check out the posted link you will see a list of the ways the South could have won the war. The first item listed is the survival of Stonewall Jackson! In fact there is a common belief that Lee's mistakes at Gettysburg would not have happened if Jackson were alive. The facts are simple God must have had to take out Stonewall Jackson because slavery sucks and Jackson inadvertently would have extended it because of his military brilliance. Lee however wasn't dangerous enough to be taken out.

Civil War article in VT magazine

I don't know if you all get the Virginia Tech magazine each season, but the Winter 2010-11 issue has two stunning cover articles, one of which is called "The Civil War: 150 years later" by Richard Lovegrove, which talks a lot about the importance of the Civil War on shaping American culture, thought, and actions in the months since. The other is all about Dr. "Bud" James Robertson, Jr, one of the top Civil War scholars of all-time, who is retiring from lecturing in about 4 months, and who wrote the definitive biography on Stonewall Jackson (the second-greatest Civil War general himself!)

Enjoy the bounty, brothers!

Civil War Soldiers

700 faces of the Civil War. This is cool.

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