FYI I f...g hate books without at least one map or picture/drawing. So something to spruce up the topic!!!

This thread is definitely winning USMF Civil War topic of the year. Probably since the beginning. But I've only been here a couple years so I don't know. Personally I'm interested in all these guys. Just finished another Sherman book and working on three Vicksburg books. Plus re-reading Killer Angels. If I got stuck on a desert island I'd take Co H and Blighted Land. Have at it guys. I'm enjoying the story!

Got this at an auction out of Omaha NE. Seller didn't have a name, was hoping to get lucky and find a local obit that would tie in with these. Anyone have any idea on the recruiter patch? Looks theater made as well as the RAMROD patches.  Thanks

That is a very nice find. I stumbled upon this a few years back.    

La Victoire est à nous    

While he did petition to keep them longer, he did not win and he did free them and he did not own them. It is believed he may have inherited some slaves from his Mother but her will clearly placed the slaves in possession of his eldest Sisters family and its only through some letters that have some ambiguity to them that people surmise that he also had slaves. The will itself did not specify him receiving any and there is no evidence he bought or sold any, only that his troops took escaped slaves from the North and returned or sold them.      He seemed to take on more of a passive role with slave issues except that he often spoke about being against it. That said, he thought, like many others that the Abolitionists were not only trying to free slaves, but to undermine and destroy Southern values and culture and he was vehemently opposed to that. Mary taught slaves to read and write and and he supported and Mary was a member of the American Colonization Society. His relationship with slavery is tangled in a messy estate and family ties with no credible evidence that he was a supporter other than what was done to maintain a series of failing estates for which the will provided. The verbiage in the will was something to the effect of set them free as soon as possible, but also to maintain the family estates, kind of hard to do that as a serving regular US Army officer and thus the rub with Lee being a brutal slave master. Much like the war, its complicated.  Scott

Got it on DVD, watch it quite a few times over the years,

I'm lookin' to get myself a 1st Mar Div lighter (about '67 through '71)   Can anyone point me to a good one?   Thanks   Wade

This was just a flag I found to be *very* similar to mine. I thought it was interesting. I never took *exact* measurements of my flag. It seemed to be about the size it was marked. I'd have to lay it out again and remeasure it to find out exactly what it measures.