I can't believe it is ready for the public! Many thanks to the Freepers who answered questions, read drafts, offered critiques. It belongs to you as well.
If you are interested in ordering a copy, please go to: Throw Away the Scabbard
1 posted on
05/14/2009 3:11:53 PM PDT by
carton253
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To: carton253
Hey congrats!!!
I’ve got an idea for your next book...
“Throw Away the ‘Throw Away the Scabbard’ - What if Stonewall Jackson had survived Chancellorsville book had never been published.”
(I’m expecting royalties.)
To: carton253
Congrats on your book. What do you think of the other alternative history of the CW, wherein Lee goes west and relieves Vicksburg?
3 posted on
05/14/2009 3:16:38 PM PDT by
Lou Budvis
(Producers of the World - Unite!)
To: stand watie; MHGinTN; RightWhale; Darkwolf377; Oberon; archy; inkling
Just a heads up that the novel has been published. I want to thank you for all your help. It meant alot and helped me revise the manuscript until it was publishable.
Thanks again.
4 posted on
05/14/2009 3:17:34 PM PDT by
carton253
(Ask me about Thow Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
To: carton253
I ordered a copy today, and I hope it will be delivered promptly ;-).
6 posted on
05/14/2009 3:18:10 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
To: carton253
There’s little doubt that Stonewall Jackson would have pressed the action when the Yankees were fleeing to what became a remarkably strong defensive position. The Battle of Gettysburgh was lost early on when the Rebels lost that advantage.
That said, Longstreet was right when he counseled leaving the battlefield after Day 1. The Yankees had position and moving towards Washington DC would have forced them out of those positions.
I know that Lee loyalists (and I am a big fan of Marse Robert) will not like that analysis, but Longstreet was right. He was also a defensive warfare genius. (His tactics were widely used in WWI). At that point in time, the South needed to be in a defensive mindset.
I say this as a Northerner who is glad (relieved) the Union won.
To: carton253
Does your alternate history address what FReepers argue about in the alternate future after the Confederacy wins?
14 posted on
05/14/2009 3:22:06 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: carton253
16 posted on
05/14/2009 3:23:05 PM PDT by
randomhero97
("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
To: carton253
Congrats!!!! Well Done!!! :)
18 posted on
05/14/2009 3:23:57 PM PDT by
BossLady
("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
To: Eaker
24 posted on
05/14/2009 3:26:03 PM PDT by
Eaker
(The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
To: carton253
Interesting! Congratulations!
To: carton253
Just read the excerpts. It’s good! Wow, another talented freeper author! You folks should have a convention sometime.
32 posted on
05/14/2009 3:38:11 PM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: carton253
Congratulations!
Now, if the Germans hadn't ever bombed Pearl Harbor... ;-)
To: carton253
Next...what if JFK had lived???
Marilyn Monroe as FLOTUS??
45 posted on
05/14/2009 3:50:31 PM PDT by
GRRRRR
(He'll NEVER be my President! (FUBO!))
To: carton253
Congratulations. Hope you sell a ton.
50 posted on
05/14/2009 3:57:37 PM PDT by
Sawdring
To: carton253
“Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.” Stonewall’s last words.
56 posted on
05/14/2009 4:09:39 PM PDT by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: carton253
Interesting. I am a big fan of “what if” Civil War books.
62 posted on
05/14/2009 4:13:03 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
To: lady lawyer
You spent alot of time with me answering a technical legal question. I just wanted you to know that you'll find your answer within the novel's pages.
Thanks for your help.
71 posted on
05/14/2009 4:33:31 PM PDT by
carton253
(Ask me about Thow Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
To: carton253
Very interesting. Have you considered one in which JEB Stuart isn’t off galavanting around and provides timely reports to Lee around the time of Gettysburg? That would be interesting also.
72 posted on
05/14/2009 4:36:05 PM PDT by
rfreedom4u
(Diversity causes division and resentment.)
To: carton253
Congrats. I’ll add it to my list after I finished the latest Preston and Child and the latest Dale Brown.
86 posted on
05/14/2009 4:53:32 PM PDT by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: carton253
Congratulations!
If you ever feel like moving on into the 20th Century, a "what-if" would be interesting if Patton had never slapped that soldier in Sicily.
93 posted on
05/14/2009 5:29:51 PM PDT by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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