Consider one of the people you're arguing with here (not me) has a fuggin' PhD in History, concentrating on this era and subject.
..and he'd prob'ly be the first to agree with me that anyone who actually brags on their own University degrees is necessarily an idiot
But I do appreciate his presence.
Of course, I'm sure your biased, admittedly limited research on the matter is far more comprehensive and compelling. Not.
Um.. this is more like being a musician going to jam on a Sunday afternoon out under the oak trees in back of the bar at Luckenbach.
Nobody could GAS how long you studied music, all that matters is how well you play.
Specific to the War Between the States there's some damned fine amateur Historians out there. Heck just go to any reenactment, the conversations to be had there rock
Birdwatcher
