Cute, preacherbob. I don't mind #6 making comments to my threads, as he has well-thought out replies. He does seem to go off the subject quite a lot...
I guess the British just couldn't help but try to control Americans, even after being defeated 30-odd years before. Those guys were arrogant! After...
Many may not realize it, but in some instances women would follow troops around from place to place as they marched. They would give "comfort" to the...
I have no idea what you are talking about when you keep saying "last", but mass production of shoes most likely did not happen until well after the...
Okay, I feel you are knit-picking. Indentured servants were not "free" labor, as their masters paid for their voyage and care from the Old World. I...
Yes. The truck driver for the company I last worked for was deemed to have side-effects from agent orange. He had really weird mood swings. One time...
There was always conflict in America, amongst it's own people. Loyalists argued against the Revolutionary War. People wanted to abolish slavery then,...
How would America have turned out in the Antebellum era and up to the time of the Civil War if slavery ended in the 1770's? Let's say that every...
Many of the devices created or re-devised were battle-related. Some of the best were ironclad ships, double-barrel cannon (that didn't work well),...
I saw a segment about this early submarine last night on TV. The Confederates were trying to break a blockade of supplies overseas. The submarine...
People could get out of the draft for a variety of reasons. If they could get a doctor (not even psychiatrist) to say they had a mental-illness, they...
When I think of the drafts and famous people, two names spring to mind instantly. One is Elvis Presley, and the other is Clark Gable. Both men used...
As most people probably know, Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted. His famous lines included "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong" and "No...
Capone would have been the right age for WWI. I read that he told people that he was a part of the Lost Battalion, of which only 194 were rescued out...
It was amazing work technologically and strategically thinking. Not only were they using meteorological data that most of the world had no clue...
That's very cool. Thank you for the post. It makes sense that they would not use supplies, that could be used for other things. Look at the shortages...
The only deaths of Americans on continental US soil occurred in Oregon on May 5, 1945 (incidentally, this was the wedding day of my grandparents). A...
The Nazis sometimes had other plans than total decimation of "substandard people". In operation Bernhard they used highly skilled engravers, acquired...
Yes, I have also heard of trading supplies between the lines. How did they hold their fire long enough to do such things? When was the "time" to...
Yes, I know I discussed legal tender and then switched to their value in rarity/historical senses. I was unaware that the Confederate money was not...
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