American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

The Confederacy has been and always will be in denial!

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Gen. Drex Ringbloom,
AotS ,Commanding

It makes for good, but sad reading - the slow but steady decent to war. What would have happened if war had been stopped

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General Cam McOmish

Brigade Commander
Alabama State Volunteers
Cleburne's Division
Hardee's Corps
(1/1/1)
Army of Tennessee
Confederate States of America

If the Civil War had never occurred it is unlikely that a National consciousness would have developed and the "State" would have been the focal point of one's loyalty. Remember Lee went with the South because he was loyal to his state. After the Civil War, this type of thinking was replaced with a loyalty for the Country as a whole. Slavery would have disappeared, I think, eventually but the racial attitudes would have persisted more strongly. It is also possible that a civil war would have occurred later anyway.

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Gen. Drex Ringbloom,
AotS ,Commanding

Very important supplies for the Confederates.

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General Ernie Sands
President ACWGC -Sept 2015- Dec 2020
7th Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, AoT
ACWGC Records Site Admin

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

So Winfield Scott had a son who was colonel in the regular army? I wonder what happened to him. I'm sure he must have risen to general in the war.

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Gen. Drex Ringbloom,
AotS ,Commanding

You raised an interesting question....I did some searching and found this in google book entitles "Civil War high commands By John H. Eicher, David J. Eicher"

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fs0Ajl ... &q&f=false

Henry Lee Scott (son-in-law to Winfield Scott? his daughter married into the same surname?) He was a Colonel in April 1861. "Alleged to have leaked Union war plans to the CSA" !!!!! The whole thing sounds really interesting.

[edit} as a side note - Winfield Scott had (3) sons, 2 died as children. The other was a son from his first marriage...but there appears to be little information on him and does not look like he was in the military. He had several daughters.

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1st Lt. Mark Gaff
Pennsylvania
Army of the Potomac
First Brigade/Second Division/I Corps


Webmaster of the Official Civil War Talk Radio website, Impediments of War; A Compendium of Civil War Talk Radio at http://www.impedimentsofwar.org/

I have to question that. I found a site at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... id=8055495 that has a photo of his impressive tombstone in Baltimore, Md. He lived from 1814 - 1886 and was his father-in-law's aide in both the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. When Winfield retired, Henry was made Colonel and Inspector General but served less than a year before retiring after 29 years of service. He was brevetted a brigadier in 1865 for "long and faithful service" but declined the honor. Not something done for someone who leaked secrets to the enemy. However, where there is smoke there might be fire.

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Gen. Drex Ringbloom,
AotS ,Commanding

I found similar information.....makes me wonder what happened!

Sorry nsimms......for hijacking your thread!

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1st Lt. Mark Gaff
Pennsylvania
Army of the Potomac
First Brigade/Second Division/I Corps


Webmaster of the Official Civil War Talk Radio website, Impediments of War; A Compendium of Civil War Talk Radio at http://www.impedimentsofwar.org/

FYI:

http://www.civilwarsignals.org/1st/nicodemus/nic.html

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General Ernie Sands
President ACWGC -Sept 2015- Dec 2020
7th Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, AoT
ACWGC Records Site Admin

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

Nicodemus never did mention service in the New Mexico Territory; interesting.

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General Neal Hebert
Edward C. Walthall Division (2nd aka "Gator Alley")
II Corps, Army of the West
CSA Cabinet Secretary

Here is a picture of Lola from Wiki:

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Gen. Drex Ringbloom,
AotS ,Commanding

From the description the picture may not do her justice - sounds like she would fit in well with the Hollywood set today

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General Cam McOmish

Brigade Commander
Alabama State Volunteers
Cleburne's Division
Hardee's Corps
(1/1/1)
Army of Tennessee
Confederate States of America

Here are some more images of Lola:
[img]http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/lola1g.jpg
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She died before she was forty and the phtographs were taken in 1851 when she would be about thirty! So she had some miles on her and it showed.

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Gen. Drex Ringbloom,
AotS ,Commanding

Continued good reading. The causes of succession (and the WAR) seems very clear in the Texas resolution.

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General Ernie Sands
President ACWGC -Sept 2015- Dec 2020
7th Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, AoT
ACWGC Records Site Admin

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

Excellent site on the Apache and the affairs in the Southwest.

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General Ernie Sands
President ACWGC -Sept 2015- Dec 2020
7th Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, AoT
ACWGC Records Site Admin

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."