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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Constructing Abattis and Trenches |
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:28 pm
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| Turns are 20 minutes right? So it would take hours to construct trenches and/or abatis. also in clear areas, trees would have to be nearby and trenches could not be constructed on rocky terrain. And the men would be fatigued so that would have to be added in. It could be done in the game but under t... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:11 am
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We could argue about this forever so lets get back to the original question.
Blake, it is obvious whose side each one of us would belong since we chose to play on one side instead of another.  It might not be true for all but probably a good majority. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:06 am
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| The Negros, if freed, would have done the same jobs as they had previously because no white man would do them. Racism would have prevented the Negro from taking the jobs a white man did so your argument,while a good political explanation, doesn't trickle down to the man holding the rifle. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:57 pm
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| Shelby Foote ,in an interview, quoted a southern prisoner as saying he was fighting because the Yanks were invading his homeland. This sounds like regionalism as opposed to nationalism, which didn;t exist then. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:20 am
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| Turdledove sounds interesting. I might start that first book too, |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:57 am
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| I have always felt the War of the Rebellion was necessary in order to unify the country and establish a National Identity. Although slavery would have died out eventually, Racism with all its ugly manifestations would have continued but on a much higher level than we experienced during the 20th Cent... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Balancing scenarios |
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:40 am
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| Has anyone adjusted the slider and not told his opponent? We never check these things. I could swear that all my opponents who beat me (and there have been many) have used this ploy.. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:39 pm
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| If the South had won we wouldn't have the great country we have now, united and free. the south would never have given up the slave trde except over time perhaps. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Refresh My Memory |
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:44 pm
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| Gettysburg is 60 pts per tube and I think that is the only campaign where I have seen this. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Which Side Would You Be On? |
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:42 pm
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| I can't answer that question. That was a different world and a National Feeling had not yet developed. there is no way a 20th Century man can relate to the feelings of an civil war era man. Most people were racist then, religion played a large part in their lives, just trying to put food on the tabl... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Most Popular Misconception of the War |
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:48 am
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| You can't ignore the European card in all this. Some major nations would recognize an independent south or prior to that offer both supplies and military aid (especially France who was already in Mexico) this arrangement would surely bolster the weakened South. A what-if: would France have eventuall... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Challenge to the ANV! |
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:39 pm
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| That was a very civilized insult Cpt. Koch! |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Interesting study of Politics and Civil War |
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:22 pm
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| yes, Scott was actually against any organization above the Brigade level. What was good for the Mexican war was goood for 1861. Unfortunately he did not recognize that the size of the forces would be many times that needed in Mexico. That's one of the reasons Mcclellan had his supporters force Scott... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Challenge to the ANV! |
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:43 pm
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| Gen. Stiles: You should know that the Zoauves were specially trained troops, elite as it were,and were entitled to their unusual dress, which,bythe way, was easy on the march, not chaffing the skin AND the blowsiness gave a false impression of a target for the rebs. The photo I provided was an accur... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Interesting study of Politics and Civil War |
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:45 am
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| I thought Scott's anaconda strategy was being followed with the successful sea blockade and the capture of the Mississippi river. I believe there was an Operational failure with the Eastern ground forces. McClellan was probably the best general the South could have wished for. He hated Scott and for... |
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