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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 29, 2019 1:44:16 GMT
Beth you are a cheap date and young, I paid $1.00 to our babysitters in the 70's. Good to hear your voice, well sort of.
Regards, Tom
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Post by rebcav on Jan 29, 2019 13:57:11 GMT
Are you sure? I pay top wages, 50 cents an hour. My boat has been in dry dock since 1988. Of those, I would rate as best, "Where Custer Fell". My son used to reenact with one of the authors, the late Brian Pohanka, an arrogant son of a bitch, but you forgive most of that if the person knows his stuff, and Pohanka did, particularly on the ACW. Despite what you read, get a map,cover it with acetate, lay out what you have visually on the map, then make your own decisions about what you think happened. If it does not make sense to you visually, chances are it did not happen the way someone you may have read said it did. THAT'S A GREAT IDEA......(The Map). Especially since for me seeing the ground is HUGE to understanding the battle. I understood Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam and the Seven Days' Battles once I walked the ground....Gonna do the same with Stone's River, Franklin, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge this April.....That's gonna be SO RAD...
Thanks for the idea..... Have a great week,
Duane
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Post by quincannon on Jan 29, 2019 17:05:29 GMT
Well the sunshine beat you to the snow shoveling job. You snooze you lose. The four bits didn't tempt you huh?
The map I would use Duane is that period reproduction map. Ian can fill you in on the details, but it is available on Amazon, and at the battlefield gift shop. He uses it occasionally here to illustrate points he wishes to make.
I would mount it on a piece of plywood so the entire map shows at one time and cover it with acetate. Then you may mark various troop positions, routes, or any other data necessary with grease pencil, and have a rag and a bottle of Windex close by so you may erase and changes any markings you find necessary. You have then created your own LBH Command Post, and are ready for battle. Not as sophisticated as the computer generated crap we have today, but it works just fine, the same way it did for Wellington and Bonaparte.
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 29, 2019 19:35:51 GMT
Duane, how are you lad. I mainly use this one for general stuff, I think this is one Chuck is eluding to and it should be widely available. I got mine sent over to me.
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Post by quincannon on Jan 29, 2019 19:38:33 GMT
That's the one old son. I am sure Duane appreciates the prompt response.
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 29, 2019 19:40:23 GMT
Here is another you can use. What I would do is down load it onto your hard drive and open it up. It is very good quality and you can zoom in to any point and you lose no picture quality, see here how I have shown the actual image and then zoomed in on MTC;
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 29, 2019 20:52:13 GMT
Here is one I just came across in my map folder, it shows the dispositions of the companies on Weir peak, if I get some time later in the week I will try and place them on a decent map to show them better.
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Post by quincannon on Jan 29, 2019 22:37:05 GMT
I have developed a severe attack of gastrointestinal revulsion upon seeing this latest map posted by Ian. It is a rare disease, found only on one street in the foothills and high desert east of the Rockies. The same street in fact that Duane failed to find fame and make his fortune shoveling my snow Notice how those companies are arrayed in a concave crescent. WTF? ? Also notice the concealed avenue of approach, left uncovered into their rear. It is no wonder that Benteen thought it a hell of a place to have to fight Indians. Also notice how Godfrey deployed Company K's skirmish line, on the way back to Reno Hill where the finger of the bluff is at its narrowest point. That was the key to Godfrey's success, the place he chose to fight. HR might want to fight from Weir. Me I would want to get out of there as fast as my little feetsies could carry me.
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Post by Beth on Jan 29, 2019 23:56:51 GMT
Beth you are a cheap date and young, I paid $1.00 to our babysitters in the 70's. Good to hear your voice, well sort of. Regards, Tom Ahh but you weren't living in small town Iowa in the '70's. I had all sorts of weird jobs as a teen I earned a whole $10/week working what is called a towel girl. I went into the salon every afternoon folded all the towels, washed the brushes and combs and made sure that all the shampoo bottles were filled for the next day. The other job I did was when I went weekly with my dad to a local pizza place so he could bone Boston butts that they used to make sausage. I carried the boxes out of the frig and put them on the butcher block so Dad could bone them. Dad paid me $5. I had a bad book habit at the time and worked hard to buy them. My parents just never understood my addiction.
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 30, 2019 0:06:59 GMT
My wife will forgive me, luv you! I do luv history.
Regards, Tom
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Post by mac on Jan 30, 2019 0:19:00 GMT
My first job was stock boy at an electrical wholesaler $4 a week. The next was selling shoes weekends and all through school holidays 5.5 day week for $26 (very good then) and at Xmas if I sold more than $100 worth of shoes I got a 50 cent bonus. Did it once and they raised the bonus level to $125. I don't think the manager's name was Chuck. Nah couldn't be, I held the job too long.
Where were you when I needed babysitters Beth? Long way if I had to drive you home I guess.
Cheers
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Post by Beth on Jan 30, 2019 0:40:33 GMT
Hey, what is a little ocean matter when you can get a top babysitter. I was even CPR trained for infants and children at the time. I used to be so booked out on babysitting that I had to suggest other girls I knew who babysat. I literally was booked for NY eve a year in advance and every single day during the summer, 9 to 5 for one family and after 7 for another(they ran a night club). One family even took me on a trip to New Orleans and Disney World to at as a nanny so they could do adult things while I took the kids swimming and to the amusement park. I think I was the only kid in Iowa who didn't spend the summer walking bean or detasseling corn.
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Post by mac on Jan 30, 2019 1:47:46 GMT
walking bean or detasseling corn.
Dream jobs!
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 30, 2019 11:03:41 GMT
My wife's mother and uncles grew up in Marshalltown and did those tasks.
Regards, Tom
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 30, 2019 11:33:27 GMT
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