History Forum / War History / US Civil War / December 2004

CHRISTMAS BELLS
by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, 1864
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,

First it was Richard 'The Lionhearted' and now it's Abraham Lincoln.
DSH
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December 16, 2004

I'm making a model Napoleon 12 pounder.  Was the wood in the carriage
and wheels painted or stained or coloured in some way?  Or would it be
just raw blond wood colour?  I can't seem to find many colour photos
on the net. :)

  A while back someone told me (without elaborating) that there were
four Russian generals on the side of the North and four Greek generals
on the side of the South. Is this so? Any further details?
                - = -

I plan on visiting the NHS in March. I have read Marvel's book "The
Last Depot." That was several years ago. I will re-read it before the
trip.
I recently watched the 1996 motion picture "Andersonville" and it

Probably the last hope of the Confederacy was that Early could successfully
create a sufficient diversion operating from the Shenandoah Valley to break
the noose of strangulation that Grand was slowly drawing around Lee at
Richmond.

In his ground-breaking volume 'Grant and Lee', William Frassanito
displayed and described a number of photos of Union casualties of the
Overland campaign being buried in Fredericksburg. Here is one
http://www.swcivilwar.com/BurialFred2Photo.html

The Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Paragraph 2) reads as follows
(emphasis added)
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States WHICH SHALL BE
MADE IN PURSUANCE THEREOF; and all Treaties made, or which shall be