History Forum / War History / US Civil War / April 2005

I would like to contact Stephen Sears about a book project but don't
know the proper way--don't want to just call him at home!
Does anyone know how to contact Sears' agent? Snail mail, e-mail,
phone--all will work fine. Other means to contact him--via a publisher,

I asked this question over at the alt.old-west newsgroup, and got some good
answers. The idea raised some questions, too, from the folks there so I
thought I'd put it out to the learned folks here. What's a good study of
Civil War raiders, like Jesse and Frank James, who became ...

As some of you have pointed out, an off-topic post got into the NG.
It is possible to circumvent the moderation process and this apparently
happened.  Not a lot we can do about it.
Of course, we can impose a little thread-drift to make it on-topic ;-)

I am conducting research about the Union Army's Invalid Corps.  I'm wondering if there is
any way to get information about individual soldiers in that corps.  Is there any way you
know of to track down descendants of soldiers who were part of the Invalid Corps?
Thank you for your ...

Was Curry right about the economic viability of the South? Since the
CSA was overrun by the Union army, it never got the chance to develop
its economy. After 10 or 20 years of an independent CSA, would it have
been a rich or poor country?

South Carolina pamphleteer William D. Porter: "When new [free] States
are admitted; when Abolition becomes stronger and stronger; when the
power to amend [the onstitution] develops the power to destroy -- how
are we to stem to torrent or avoid the catarct?"

To oversimplify I'll guess (I'm an objective person & this isn't written
in stone) #1. Most of the north wanted a strong central gov't & weaker
state gov'ts to make for a formidable nation to face the always hungry
European countries (England, Germany Russia etc.) that could field a

does anyone know the movie in which the 85 year old lady was depicted as
being killed in her bed by forces at bull run?
email me at coachgarvol@msn.com

As a Colorado native, and graduate of West Point (1950 and a couple
wars under my belt) who spent ten years revitalizing the original
Colorado City, brief Capital of Colorado Territory, now westside of
Colorado Springs, I took a special interest in the Battle of Glorieta