History Forum / War History / US Civil War / August 2006

I was thinking about the muskets with mulitple cartridges in the barrel.
I guess we know from actual recovered weapons and anecdotal info
that this wasn't that uncommon.  My question is that every account
I have seen says it was due to troops loading and failing to fire

Could not the constitutionality of secession have been brought to the
Supremes if:
1) South Carolina's Congressional delegation to the U.S. Congress
introduce a bill providing that secession is legal on an approving

Several threads have drifted away from discussion of the American Civil
War (for example, discussions about the validity of killing other human
beings, discussions of other wars, etc.).
*If* you tie your discussion into a theme related to the Civil War,

Freeing the black man.
Then they turned west to exterminate the red man.
Hmmmm.

I watched Gary Gallagher on a three hour talk show yesterday. I even
tried to call in but had no sucess. I wanted to ask him to discuss the
legality of secession. have you noticed that historians and authors
tend to stay from the subject on tv. Could the answer be that its too

Hi to all. It's been a long while since I last visited - nice to see so many
familiar names.
I'm looking to learn more about Phil Kearny, and was pleasantly surprised to
find my county library system has several books. Problem is, most are in the

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Here's to Rafael Semmes, Maryland boy, the most successful ships
captain in all of history.
After resigning his commision in the US Navy he became a commander in

Were there judicial rules or constitutional issues that prevented the
Lincoln administration from getting the question of secession before
the Supreme Court prior to the firing on of Ft. Sumter or at any time
after Lincoln took office?  Who had the burden of getting a secession

Dear Members,
   I have a question for all of you, have any of you ever ran across any information reguarding a unit called the 17th Wisconsin Vol. Inf.?  If so, by any chance do any of you know what their uniform looked like?  I am asking because, I am currently trying to put ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote down comments made by Edmund Randolph,
Washington's Secretary of State, about a conversation the latter had
with President Washington.
Washington told Randolph, "I can clearly foresee that nothing but the

That argument has been made repeatedly - but I submit it is false.
The CS Constitution spends a lot of paperwork spelling out and
clarifying what they saw as implied rights of slavery in the old
Constitution: this time around they wanted to make certain that there

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:28:03 CST, Brad Meyer <bradm110@gmail.com> wrote:

lil'mc was appointed commander of the AOP on this date in 1861
McClellan was and is the most controversial commander in the civil war.

A few observations regarding the peculiar institution and also recent
comments regarding the illegal slave trade.
It's been alleged that the north was chin-deep in the illegal slave
trade.  Despite repeated requests for an explanation of how this might

Suppose McClellan had changed his mind and decided that it was better
to take a direct approach through Mannasses straight to Richmond rather
than do the Penninsular campaign what would the latest it would be
practicable for him to change his mind?