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    Vapor Trails Remixed up on Rolling Stone Website

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    One of my friends is a manager at a local Best Buy. The store received a shipment last night with next Tuesday's releases. He called me on the phone around 2000 hours and advised he would drop off a copy of the new remix of "Vapor Trails" at my house. I listened to this CD a couple of times before I hit the sack. I woke up this morning and gave it another whirl. Honestly, it is not worth all of the hype. It is better than the original pile of horse dung but this is not really saying a whole lot. Sorry if I rained on anyone's parade.....

    The Battle of Chickamauga

    in Turn The Page

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    Thank You.....

     

    Chickamauga National Military Park is the oldest Civil War park in the USA.

     

    I had a friend asked me, "Why are there so many monuments at Gettysburg and Chickamauga?"

     

    Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Shiloh and Vicksburg were constructed while their veterans were still alive.

     

    Naturally these veterans wanted to place a monument dedicated to their unit and fallen comrades in the location where they fought on a battlefield.

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    The Battle of Chickamauga

    in Turn The Page

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    Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga.

     

    This Civil War battle was fought on September 19-20, 1863.

     

    The battlefield is located near the town of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

     

    The outcome was a Confederate Army victory.

     

    Enjoy my YouTube video,

     

    Bill

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    General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, CSA

    in Turn The Page

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    General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, CSA died on this date in 1863. After Jackson was shot by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, Jackson was transported by an ambulance to a plantation house near Guinea Station, Virginia. Six days later, Jackson would die of pneumonia. He was later buried at a private cemetery in Lexington, Virginia.

     

    * Guinea Station Plantation House at the Stonewall Jackson Shrine (NPS Park)

     

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    Battle of Gettysburg 1863

    in Turn The Page

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    I remember being up on Little Round Top and hearing some lady with a real souther drawl say to the bunch of kids that were with her "Kids, if Stonewall Jackson had been here we would have won this one." Got me thinking "We" - WTF??? Almost 120 years, 2 World Wars, the Cold War and it's still "we". She might very well have been right but still - WTF?? Sort of sad.

     

    Firstly, the South is still extremely proud of their Confederate generals.

     

    Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Nathan Bedford Forrest, JEB Stuart and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

     

    I have read many books on the speculation on "if" Jackson was not mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.

     

    In my opinion, "if" Jackson was alive and well at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee would have been persuaded not to fight on July 3, 1863.

     

    Longstreet tried like the Devil to convince Lee to stop after day two of the battle.....

     

    But Longstreet and Jackson together, I believe Lee would have been persuaded.

     

    My opinion......

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