THE CIVIL WAR

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A GREAT KNIGHT AND FRIEND WENT SOUTH FOR HIS WIFE'S FATHERS WEDDING AND HE TOURED SOME CIVIL WAR BATTLE GROUNDS AND BROUGHT ME BACK A SAMPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU....THE KNIGHTHAWK IS THE PERSON IAM APEAFING OF........

FIRST IS A PAMPHET EXPLANING BRIEFLY ABOUT THE BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA...SOME OF THE BATTLE SITES HAVE MORE THAN ONE NAME DUE TO WHETHER IT WAS THE NORTHS TERM OR THE SOUTHS TERM......AND MANY OF THE SITES ARE NAMED AFTER CITIES NEARBY AND THEY ARE INDIAN NAMES...

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NEXT ARE A COUPLE OF POST CARDS..........ONE IS NATHAN BEDFORD FOREST---A CONFEDERATE CALVARY OFFICER AND HE SPENT MUCH OF THE WAR BEHIND ENEMY LINES DISRUPTING SUPPLY TRAINS AND MAKING LIGHTENING FAST RAIDS ON THE ENEMIES----AFTER THE WAR DUE TO THE NORTHS HARSH LAWS HE STARTED A GROUP OF FORMER SOLDIERS TO RAID AT NIGHT AND CARE NEWLY FREED BLACKS AND NORTHENERS WHO HELPED THEM----THE GROUP GREW IN VIOLENCE AND TOKTHE TITLE"KU KLUX KLAN"----------ALSO PICTURED IS A POSTCARD OF A BATTLE SCENE WHICH IS ACTUALLY 13 FEET BY 30 FEET...........IN THE LARGE PICTURE IS A NORTHEN GENERAL NAME FIGHTING JOE HOOKER----AND WHEM HE TRAVELED-SO MANY WOMEN OF ILL REPUTE FOLLOWED THAT THEY WERE CALLED "HOOKER'S BRIGADE"---AND THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY WHERE THE TERM "HOOKER" CAME TO MEAN A PROSTITUTE

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THE LAST SET OF CARDS SHOW THE FLAGS OF THE CONFEDERACY---THE FIRST FLAG IS JUST A BATTLE FLAG BUT MOST PEOPLE ASSUMED THIS WAS THE MAIN FLAG OF THE SOUTH BUT IT WAS NOT---AND THE NEXT PICURE IS AOME ARTIFACTS FROM THIS BATTLE SITE-----I KNOW THAT MANYOF YOU HAVE METAL DETECTERS --WELL YOU NEED SPECIAL PERMISSION TO DETECT ON ANY OF THE NATIONAL BATTLE SITES...THS MAY OT BE TRUE-- AS I AM NOT A METAL DETECTOR---MAYBE SOEM OF YOU KNOW THE RULES.........THANKS NIGHTHAWK AND THANKS YOU ALL FOR LOOKIN........

[Triggersmob]

some nice stuff there Joe.
Interesting info about the Hookers.

[longnine009]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one bad ass dude. He had
30 horses shot out from under him and killed all 30 men
in hand to hand combat. He actually had 31 shot out
from under him but one he shot himself by accident.
Sorrrrry.

He was shot point blank in the chest by one his junior officers.
All it did was piss him off. He held  the guy place with one arm,
opened a pocket knife with his free hand and his teeth and
cut the man's throat.

Don't mess with Nathan.    

[Humpybong]

Very nice collection Joe.

Don't you just love history.

[longnine009]

Here's some amusing history about Joe Hooker
and Lincoln: Before thr Battle of Chancellorsville
"fighting Joe" sent Lincoln a telegram explaining
how he would kick Lee's butt because Joe had twice the forces as Lee. Lincoln's reply: "The
hen is the wisest of the barn yard animals for
she never cackles until after the egg is laid."

Lee not only won with half the forces he divided
the half in half and attacked from two directions.