GDG- Re: Ask Ed Ayers
Charles Joyce
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> 1. Re: Ask Ed Ayers (Charles TJoyce)
> 2. News release from state Rep. Harry Readshaw (thepurd at comcast.net)
> 3. RE: Re: Ask Ed Ayers (Robert Lawrence)
> 4. Lady Daniel Farm (mfitz54 at aol.com)
> 5. Re: First shot marker location? (gettysburgerrn at aol.com)
> 6. Re: Park update (gettysburgerrn at aol.com)
> 7. RE: First shot marker location? (Terry)
> 8. Elwell Stephen Otis, 140th New York (Maria Gross)
> 9. Re: attempted to frighten an Irishman with a broadsword
> (FannieCAC at aol.com)
> 10. RE: attempted to frighten an Irishman with a broadsword (Tom Ryan)
> 11. Review of "Plenty of Blame" (Tom Ryan)
> 12. Thanks to Tom Ryan (Eric J. Wittenberg)
> 13. Lincoln v Douglass October 7, 1858 (Dennis Lawrence)
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> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:25:32 -0400
> From: "Charles TJoyce" <CTJoyce at spearwilderman.com>
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> As a U.Va grad ( History '83) and one who took Ed Ayers' very first seminar he ever taught there, on the history of American violence, I would urge anyone who can to see him. He is an incredible speaker, a first class intellect, and a helluva nice guy! I am just finishing his "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", which traces the social, political and to a lesser extent, military experiences of two communities in the Valley of Virginia, one South, one North, and ends right at the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg. It won the Bancroft Prize for Histoy, and it's a great read.
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> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:33:23 +0000
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> Subject: GDG- News release from state Rep. Harry Readshaw
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> CONTACT: Jay Purdy
> House Democratic Communications Office
> State Rep. Harry Readshaw
> D-Allegheny
> www.pahouse.com/readshaw
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> Ride for the Monuments a ‘sixth-sess’
>
> HARRISBURG, Oct. 6 – Despite a persistent drizzle, Saturday’s sixth annual Ride for the Monuments at Gettysburg marked another complete success for its sponsor, the Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education.
>
> State Rep. Harry Readshaw, D-Allegheny, today said the ride from Harrisburg to Battlefield Harley Davidson in Gettysburg brought in approximately $8,000 for his Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monuments Project and for the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association in its work to preserve the historic Daniel Lady Farm on Hanover Road just outside the famed borough.
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> The annual procession benefits the Monuments Project’s endowment fund to meet future maintenance needs of the more than 140 Pennsylvania monuments and markers on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The monuments project has already ensured funding for current repair and cleaning needs.
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> At the Daniel Lady Farm, the GBPA is nearing completion of the stone farmhouse that was a Confederate regimental headquarters and field hospital during the three-day battle. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee spent time at the farm on the first night of the epic clash.
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> At an award ceremony and chicken barbecue following the ride, 9-year-old Grant Sanders, a student at James Getty Elementary School in Gettysburg, presented Readshaw with $104 he raised selling battlefield photograph collages. He mounted the effort after three monuments were heavily damaged by vandals in February.
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> “It was especially heartening to see how many motorcyclists put on their leathers and rode despite the chilly, wet weather,” said Readshaw. “The money raised Saturday means at least a couple more monuments will be endowed so that they can stand for many more generations to come as testament to the struggle and sacrifice of those three days in 1863 when the course of the Civil War was changed.”
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> Information about the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monuments Project can be obtained by contacting Readshaw’s Harrisburg office at 717-783-0411 or by e-mail at Gettysburg at pahouse.net.
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> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:01:11 -0400
> From: "Robert Lawrence" <lawrence at rwlcpa.com>
> Subject: RE: GDG- Re: Ask Ed Ayers
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:35:37 -0400
> From: mfitz54 at aol.com
> Subject: GDG- Lady Daniel Farm
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> This article appeared in the Civil War Interactive.........
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> Restoration Revealing Carnage at Gettysburg's Lady Farm
> Oct. 5, 2006--The Daniel Lady Farm is making history again.
>
> Kathi Schue, president of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, the farm owner, today revealed details of an initial investigation into the blood stains that mark the floors of three rooms of the farmhouse.
>
> Schue said the distinction of being the oldest known death scene ever successfully investigated with the use of luminescent agents is now shared by the farm with the Shriver House in downtown Gettysburg.
>
> The house and barn on the Lady Farm were Confederate field hospitals during the three-day battle.
>
> Stains in the attic of the Shriver House support accounts that a Confederate sniper died there. Stains in the Lady farmhouse offer even more vivid evidence of the pain and suffering endured by the combatants of the North and South.
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> “The stains in your front room are of great significance not only historically, but also forensically, reported Detective Lt. Nicholas Paonessa of the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Police Department, who volunteered to conduct the study on his own time. Paonessa’s interest was forensic in addition to historic.
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> Paonessa’s department was seeking to determine how far back a new detection fluid, Bluestar Forensics Latent Blood Reagent, could go in finding blood at a death scene. While the Niagara Falls area is rich in history, Paonessa said he could not locate a death site nearly as old as the Lady farmhouse to investigate. “Unfortunately, we have no organization like the GBPA,†Paonessa said.
>
> “The capability of luminol to react with blood stains over 200 years old has already been demonstrated, however, the use of this method outside of the lab and in an actual death scene had not been explored.†said Paonessa, “Our intention was to determine the feasibility of utilizing this luminol analogue (Bluestar) for use in visualizing historical blood evidence and at the same time demonstrate how useful it would be on old crime scenes which may still be prosecuted.â€
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> Paonessa said he was excited by what the Lady farmhouse revealed.
>
> “Unlike the Shriver House, the finish on the floor in the Daniel Lady Farm actually gave off fluorescence when subjected to Rofin Polilight Forensic Alternate Light Source,†reported Paonessa. “This created a strong contrast between the glow of the finish and the absorption of the stains (the Shriver house attic had an untreated floor and a dark wood).â€
>
> The all-volunteer GBPA has a web site at www.gbpa.org . Schue can be contacted by e-mail at Gettysburg at pahouse.net , or by phone at 717-783-0411. The regular mailing address is: GBPA, PO Box 4087, Gettysburg, PA 17325. GBPA is a registered 501 3 C non-profit organization.
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> Mike Fitzpatrick
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:22:48 -0400
> From: gettysburgerrn at aol.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- First shot marker location?
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
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> what occurs at the apple harvest festival?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: GDG- First shot marker location?
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> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> This weekend & next is the Apple Harvest Festival. This is an annual event and
> all hotels will be booked solid. Good luck. Drive west on Route 30 and turn
> left onto Knoxlyn Road and turn around to face Route 30 again. You will see the
> First Shot marker among shrubbbery in front of the Whisler house.
>
> Lisa Malandra
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> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Tom Townsend <tomt at hellothomas.org>
>> Sent: Oct 5, 2006 9:23 AM
>> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
>> Subject: GDG- First shot marker location?
>>
>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>>
>> Can someone tell me where the first shot marker is on US RT 30 west of
>> Gettysburg? I know I've been by it a million times, but have never stopped
>> to see it.
>>
>> Also, what's going on in town this weekend? Most of the lodging is booked up!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom Townsend
>> Dayton, O.
>>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:25:16 -0400
> From: gettysburgerrn at aol.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- Park update
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
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> on that note I know some of the groves have been replanted..are they growing in well...
> ken
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jmkelly at norwoodlight.com
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Sent: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Park update
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> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> Agreed, but also looking for clearing of the Baltimore-Pike-to-Spangler-Spring area.
>
> Regards,
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> Jack Kelly
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Cameron" <cameron2 at optonline.net>
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Park update
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>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>> << Removal of Trees ..... The removal of non-historic vegetation between > Devil's Den and the Slyder farm will occur this winter. >>
>>
>> Everything on the list is great, but THIS is what I'm waiting to see!
>>
>> Jim Cameron
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:32:05 -0400
> From: "Terry" <terryanneegley at comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: GDG- First shot marker location?
> To: "'GDG'" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
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> You can buy anything that has anything to do at all with apples. Great
> cider, donuts, etc. I wish I could be out there this weekend.
>
> Terry Egley
>
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> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
> On Behalf Of gettysburgerrn at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:23 PM
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- First shot marker location?
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>
>
> what occurs at the apple harvest festival?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lisam3860 at earthlink.net
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
> Sent: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: GDG- First shot marker location?
>
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> This weekend & next is the Apple Harvest Festival. This is an annual event
> and
> all hotels will be booked solid. Good luck. Drive west on Route 30 and
> turn
> left onto Knoxlyn Road and turn around to face Route 30 again. You will see
> the
> First Shot marker among shrubbbery in front of the Whisler house.
>
> Lisa Malandra
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: Tom Townsend <tomt at hellothomas.org>
>> Sent: Oct 5, 2006 9:23 AM
>> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
>> Subject: GDG- First shot marker location?
>>
>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>>
>>
>> Can someone tell me where the first shot marker is on US RT 30 west of
>> Gettysburg? I know I've been by it a million times, but have never stopped
>> to see it.
>>
>> Also, what's going on in town this weekend? Most of the lodging is booked
>>
> up!
>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom Townsend
>> Dayton, O.
>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:51:07 -0400
> From: "Maria Gross" <confederate at worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: GDG- Elwell Stephen Otis, 140th New York
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
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> I am pleased to announce that my article about a Moore Seven Shooter
> revolver presented to Captain Elwell Stephen Otis of the 140th New York will
> be the cover story for the upcoming issue (November, 2006) of THE GUN REPORT
> magazine. Otis had a spectacular career during his 40 years of service
> (1862-1902) and would rise to the rank of major general. He fought on Little
> Round Top, was shot in the face at Petersburg, fought during the Indian
> Wars, including the Little Bighorn Campaign. He was the organizer and first
> commander of the present day Army's Command and General Staff College at
> Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military govorner of the Philippines during the
> Philippine Insurrection, and was awarded three brevets during his service.
> To think that this revolver may have been with him on LRT makes it really
> special.
>
> Here's a couple of sneek peek photos.
>
> http://home.att.net/~confederate/otisgrp.jpg
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> http://home.att.net/~confederate/otisdocs.jpg
>
> John Gross
> confederate at att.net
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> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 06:38:19 EDT
> From: FannieCAC at aol.com
> Subject: Re: GDG- attempted to frighten an Irishman with a broadsword
> To: gettysburg at arthes.com
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>
> In a message dated 10/6/2006 11:17:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jmkelly at norwoodlight.com writes:
>
> Remember: If it weren't for
> whiskey, the Irish would rule the world
>
>
> ============
>
> That's why the Scots invented it... :-D
>
>
> Sherrie House
> (both Scots AND Irish, with a bunch of other stuff tossed in for good
> measure)
>
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 08:52:41 -0400
> From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
> Subject: RE: GDG- attempted to frighten an Irishman with a broadsword
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> Message-ID: <FEEOKINCPINMNKHDCDCEMELGCNAA.pennmardel at mchsi.com>
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> "Remember: If it weren't for
> whiskey, the Irish would rule the world"
>
> When Kennedy and Reagan were president, the Irish did rule the world.
>
> Tom Ryan
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 09:18:39 -0400
> From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
> Subject: GDG- Review of "Plenty of Blame"
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at gdg.org>
> Message-ID: <FEEOKINCPINMNKHDCDCEMELHCNAA.pennmardel at mchsi.com>
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> This morning the Washington Times published my review of Eric and J.D.'s new
> book "Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to
> Gettysburg." You can read it at
> http://washtimes.com/civilwar/20061006-084936-8349r.htm. If that URL does
> not open, go to www.washingtontimes.com and click on Sections along the top
> of the screen, and click on Civil War in the drop down menu. The headline
> reads "Fateful Stuart Gettysburg ride carefully probed."
>
> Regards, Tom Ryan
>
>
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 09:57:40 -0400
> From: "Eric J. Wittenberg" <eric at rushslancers.com>
> Subject: GDG- Thanks to Tom Ryan
> To: GDG <gettysburg at gdg.org>
> Message-ID: <D35B7C45-0435-4F57-A71B-ECD0E42CB1C2 at rushslancers.com>
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> Just a quick note to say thank you to Tom Ryan for the very kind
> things written in his review of our book _Plenty of Blame to Go
> Around: J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg_. JD and I
> really appreciate it.
>
> Eric
>
>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:29:19 -0600
> From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at kc.rr.com>
> Subject: GDG- Lincoln v Douglass October 7, 1858
> To: gettysburg at gdg.org
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> Thursday, October 7, 1858.
> Galesburg, IL
>
> Fifth joint debate takes place. Lincoln arrives shortly before noon,
> escorted by large procession. He is conducted to home of Henry R.
> Sanderson, where reception speech is made by T. G. Frost and banner
> presented by Miss Anna Hurd. At 2 Lincoln and Douglas are escorted to
> grounds in four-horse carriages driven abreast. Debate is held on Knox
> College campus.
>
>
>
> Excerpt:
>
>
> Douglas:I tell you that this Chicago doctrine of Lincoln's---declaring that
> the negro and the white man are made equal by the Declaration of
> Independence and by Divine Providence---is a monstrous heresy. (That's so,
> and terrific applause.) The signers of the Declaration of Independence
> never dreamed of the negro when they were writing that document. They
> referred to white men, to men of European birth and European descent, when
> they declared the equality of all men. I see a gentleman there in the crowd
> shaking his head. Let me remind him that when Thomas Jefferson wrote that
> document he was the owner, and so continued until his death, of a large
> number of slaves. Did he intend to say in that Declaration that his negro
> slaves, which he held and treated as property, were created his equals b
> and y Divine law, and that he was violating the law of God every day of his
> life by holding them as slaves? (``No, no.'') It must be borne in mind that
> when that Declaration was put forth every one of the thirteen colonies were
> slaveholding colonies, and every man who signed that instrument represented
> a slaveholding constituency. Recollect, also, that no one of them
> emancipated his slaves, much less put them on an equality with himself,
> after he signed the Declaration. On the contrary, they all continued to
> hold their negroes as slaves during the revolutionary war. Now, do you
> believe---are you willing to have it said---that every man who signed the
> Declaration of Independence declared the negro his equal, and then was
> hypocrite enough to continue to hold him as a slave, in violation of what
> he believed to be the divine law? (``No, no.'') And yet when you say that
> the Declaration of Independence includes the negro, you charge the signers
> of it with hypocrisy.
>
> Lincoln: The Judge has alluded to the Declaration of Independence, and
> insisted that negroes are not included in that Declaration; and that it is
> a slander upon the framers of that instrument, to suppose that negroes were
> meant therein; and he asks you: Is it possible to believe that Mr.
> Jefferson, who penned the immortal paper, could have supposed himself
> applying the language of that instrument to the negro race, and yet held a
> portion of that race in slavery? Would he not at once have freed them? I
> only have to remark upon this part of the Judge's speech, (and that, too,
> very briefly, for I shall not detain myself, or you, upon that point for
> any great length of time,) that I believe the entire records of the world,
> from the date of the Declaration of Independence up to within three years
> ago, may be searched in vain for one single affirmation, from one single
> man, that the negro was not included in the Declaration of Independence. I
> think I may defy Judge Douglas to show that he ever said so, that
> Washington ever said so, that any President ever said so, that any member
> of Congress ever said so, or that any living man upon the whole earth ever
> said so, until the necessities of the present policy of the Democratic
> party, in regard to slavery, had to invent that affirmation. [Tremendous
> applause.] And I will remind Judge Douglas and this audience, that while
> Mr. Jefferson was the owner of slaves, as undoubtedly he was, in speaking
> upon this very subject, he used the strong language that ``he trembled for
> his country when he remembered that God was just;'' and I will offer the
> highest premium in my power to Judge Douglas if he will show that he, in
> all his life, ever uttered a sentiment at all akin to that of Jefferson.
> [Great applause and cries of ``Hit him again,'' ``good,'' ``good.'']
>
>
> http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A30
>
> Enjoy
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:34:03 -0400
> From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>
> Subject: GDG- Book Reviews
> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at gdg.org>
> Message-ID: <FEEOKINCPINMNKHDCDCEKELJCNAA.pennmardel at mchsi.com>
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>
> Forgot to mention, that you can also read my review of Tom Eishen's "Courage
> on Little Round Top" in the Washington Times by scrolling down to Saturday,
> September 16 and click on "Self-doubt confronted at Gettysburg."
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Ryan [mailto:pennmardel at mchsi.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:19 AM
> To: GDG
> Subject: Review of "Plenty of Blame"
>
>
> This morning the Washington Times published my review of Eric and J.D.'s new
> book "Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to
> Gettysburg." You can read it at
> http://washtimes.com/civilwar/20061006-084936-8349r.htm. If that URL does
> not open, go to www.washingtontimes.com and click on Sections along the top
> of the screen, and click on Civil War in the drop down menu. The headline
> reads "Fateful Stuart Gettysburg ride carefully probed."
>
> Regards, Tom Ryan
>
>
>
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