I'd better add "go to bookstore" this weekend, if I want to participate.

 

I hope everyone is enjoying the book. We will start the discussion tomorrow.

 

I picked up my copy and started it on Friday. Hope to get some reading in this afternoon, if I could just get off of this web site.

 

When does the discussion begin?

 

I thought it was today? Without being specific since I'm not sure the discussion has started, I can tell you that I like what I've read so far. I feared it would read like a history book.

 

Right now!

"These men wore Blue"

I've read the book cover to cover three times and this line from the foreword always strikes me. They were all Americans. They were friends and brothers. And they were at war. The difference between them, in many respects, was the color of the uniform. I had always been taught that the Civil war pitted Americans against eachother, but this book brought it home. the author makes that point right from the begining in the forward.

I don't want to hog the discussion. I would like to hear what people think about the characters based on the discription in the foreword. And I'd like to hear people comment about Rob's point regarding the author's sympathies.

Fire away! I'll be close by.

 

I don't want to say anything yet as I too want to hear what others think of my opinion of the authors sympathies. I won't be far either (at least for this evening).

 

I'm still trying to get my hands on the book In the meanwhile, I'll be lurking.....

 

Some book club! Some one say something.

"The book was made of paper."

"I liked the cover."

"I read the wrong pages."

 

The Army of the North is diverse.

The Army of the South is homogeneous.

But before you jump to conclusions based on the outcome of the war, consider this. The Army of the South was under equipped and inferior in size. Yet, in the days before Gettysburgh, the South was winning.