James Mcpherson's "battle cry of Freedom" is still the best single volume on the war. Truly all you need for the wartime itself (buy you're going to want more).

Bruce Cattons "Centenial series" was written to comemorate the 100th anniversary of the war.Uses much more primary source material than Foote. Generally what all the old people say "got them into the war"

Tony Horwitz "Confederates in the Attic"

That's 8000 pages of pretty standard stuff and generally where people will get their talking points from in day to day life. Also since you're going to be on amazom and my birthday is coming up, do you mind picking me up HW Brands: "A restless colossus"?

These lectures are not bad either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PunB...F7549F2D39E590

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Oh, Apple, you cowardly worm.

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Shamefully ripped from another forum

EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

- Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days: To The Gates of Richmond by Stephen Sears
- Second Manassas: Return to Bull Run by John Hennessy
- Antietam: Landscape Turned Red by Stephen Sears
- Fredericksburg: The Fredericksburg Campaign by Francis O'Reilly
- Chancellorsville: Chancellorsville by Stephen Sears
- Gettysburg: anything by Stephen Sears, Edwin Coddington Noah Trudeau, Harry Pfanz, and a bunch of others
- Overland Campaign: the series by Gordon Rhea

WESTERN CAMPAIGNS

- Shiloh: Shiloh: Bloody April by Wiley Sword
- Perryville: Perryville by Kenneth Noe
- Murfreesborough: No Better Place to Die by Peter Cozzens
- Chickamauga: This Terrible Sound by Peter Cozzens
- Chattanooga: The Shipwreck of Their Hopes by Peter Cozzens
- Atlanta Campaign: Decision in the West by Albert Castel
- Nashville Campaign: Confederacy's Last Hurrah by Wiley Sword

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"Oh, Apple, you cowardly worm.": Agree. We had the same move when Nazi symbols were taken off, even from Plane Kit modelling... It won't last. Common sense will come back.

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The pissing contest over the flag deflected from the courage of convictions demonstrated by the victims:

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinion...the-south.html

But I guess it "wouldn't really count" as a tragedy w/o the media drawing blood somewhere.

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I got a warm, fuzzy feeling after reading that. I don't know if I would have been able to forgive.

Part of the warm, fuzzy feeling, though, is that a small part of me thinks that this is the ultimate defeat for the shooter. He tried to incite violence and he failed. Now he just a sick a-hole who's gonna spend the rest of his life seeing people through a little hole in the door.

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