One of the fun things about the WBTS threads is that they often afford an opportunity to learn more about the rich history of our great nation (even if only in dribs n drabs).
One of the more sillier aspects of the WBTS threads is when someone goes off half-elenchused ;’)
I’ve found that the best approach to these threads is a good sense of humor and a few grains of salt.
Thank you. That is sound and solid advice. I definitely get your point about our rich history. I have been an amateur CW buff for 50yrs and I would never even pretend to know even an eighth of what there is to be learned about it. While others maintain the complete elenchus-ness of the issue, I still have my own row to hoe. For example, my own younger sister found a Minnie ball on Little Round Top about 15yrs ago. Anyone would have thought that impossible after so many, many years of souvenir hunting, and that that ground had been gone over with the plow many times over. Of course, Gettysburg and most in particular Little Round Top was the high-water mark of the War for the Confederacy. Her Minnie ball was found where Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine performed their swinging gate maneuver that may well have been the turning point of that battle, which was the turning point of the War. I told my sister that the Minnie ball she found was the shot that caused the turning point and Chamberlains decision.
I am new around here and enjoy the WBTS threads. I am learning that the threads teach more about the posters and who's who than they do about the War. Thanks again.