If you're into the CIvil War

[gregorylee]

You should check this site out.

Ohio Civil War Stories

 

[AKAK]

150th anniversary of the 3rd day of Gettysburg..

Lots and lots of good articles around; here's one:

Why They Fought

Tuesday is the 150th anniversary of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. In his eloquent new account, ?Gettysburg: the Last Invasion,? the historian Allen Guelzo describes the psychology of the fighters on that day.

A battlefield is ?the lonesomest place which men share together,? a soldier once observed. At Gettysburg, the men were sometimes isolated within the rolling clouds of gun smoke and unnerved by what Guelzo calls ?the weird harmonic ring of bullets striking fixed bayonets.? They were often terrified, of course, sometimes losing bladder and bowel control. (Aristophanes once called battle ?the terrible one, the tough one, the one upon the legs.?)

But, as Guelzo notes, the Civil War was fought with ?an amateurism of spirit and an innocence of intent, which would be touching if that same amateurism had not also contrived to make it so bloody.?

Discipline was loose. Civil War soldiers were not used to subordinating themselves within large organizations. One veteran observed that in battle ?men standing in line got in paroxysms of laughter.? But many were motivated by the sense that they were living up to some high moral ideal. Words like ?gallant,? ?valor? and ?chivalric? dot their descriptions of each other?s behavior. Upon being taken prisoner, one Union soldier shook his captors? hands and congratulated them on the ?most splendid charge of the war.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/opinion/brooks-why-they-fought.html

 

[BayBuck]

Website about a documentary based on a book about the Confederate officer's prison camp on Johnson's Island:

http://rebelsonlakeerie.com/

 

[ScriptOhio]

I went to General Sherman Junior High School (7th, 8th, and 9th grades), does that count?

:tongue2:

 

[Smudger]

Should probably re-watch Ken Burns The Civil War for like the 10th time. No matter how many times you watch it all the way through, it never seems to get old. Masterful documentary. Have to get my Shelby Foote fix too. Ended up getting buried right beside the men he revered so much throughout his life.

 

[Mike80]

Should probably re-watch Ken Burns The Civil War for like the 10th time. No matter how many times you watch it all the way through, it never seems to get old. Masterful documentary. Have to get my Shelby Foote fix too. Ended up getting buried right beside the men he revered so much throughout his life.

It's on netflix. I've watched it this week actually.