So That Others Might Be Free, Part I

 

1. Killer Angels - Michael Shaara.  It’s about this battle.  It’s a stunning book, and the last ten pages will bring you to tears as the forces march toward the final battle.

   This book and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ are two books that not only wreak havoc on your sensibilities about war but wrack your heart at the sadness that participants in the battle, no matter which side, are human beings who are bound to die for a cause.

   Posted by Phoenix       05/29/2005  at  06:07 PM  



2. "A house divided cannot stand.”

   It is as true now as it was in Lincoln’s day.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       05/30/2005  at  09:36 AM  



3. MELVILLE, CHARLES

   Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1828, Dover, N.H. Accredited to: New Hampshire. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: On board the flagship U.S.S. Hartford during action against rebel gunboats, the ram Tennessee, and Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Wounded and taken below to the surgeon when a shell burst between the two forward 9_inch guns, killing and wounding 15 men, Melville promptly returned to his gun on the deck and, although scarcely able to stand, refused to go below and continued to man his post throughout the remainder of the action resulting in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee.

   Posted by jackbrownii       05/30/2005  at  02:18 PM  

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