COMPLETE - Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. Freeman - dc

JefferySmith · Post by **JefferySmith** » June 15th, 2020, 10:25 am

I'm always pleased to hear another VO's work. You and I are both aficionados of past wars. In junior high, I learned a little bit about the Civil War, but we never got to WWI in high school or college.

Jeff

Post by **craigdav1** » June 15th, 2020, 11:07 am

Book summary updated on Project Screen. Growing up where the American Revolution was fought, I'm not sure we even made it to the Civil War.

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 15th, 2020, 11:43 am

I got my fascination with the American Civil War from my father (I can still remember his reading McKinlay Kantor's novel Andersonville - I was 11 and much impressed by this big book!) My interest in the world-shattering WWi and WWII came along later as I began as an adult to realize what devastation they both caused. And then my "own" war was Vietnam, which is still too painful for me to pay much attention to. Someday...

JefferySmith · Post by **JefferySmith** » June 15th, 2020, 1:29 pm

Are you old enough to remember the "Civil War" cards that were basically baseball cards but with brutal, bloody paintings of soldiers impaled on sharpened stakes, or grapeshot from a cannon blowing the heads off the enemy?

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 15th, 2020, 2:11 pm

No, I think I'm glad I missed them. Not really into mayhem anymore. Enough to remember that General Leonidas Polk was cut in two by a cannonball outside of Atlanta. Yuck, what a way to go. Not that any of them died any better, really.

Edit: It occurs to me to say that before the war he was the Episcopal bishop of your part of the country, Louisiana. Should have stayed there/that. He wasn't a very good general.

JefferySmith · Post by **JefferySmith** » June 15th, 2020, 2:29 pm

I was born in L.A., but have lived in LA since 1974. Born in L.A. County Hospital. Grew up in San Diego mostly.

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 16th, 2020, 6:02 pm

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Post by **craigdav1** » June 16th, 2020, 7:59 pm

1 PL OK.

Whew!

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 19th, 2020, 5:07 pm

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Post by **craigdav1** » June 19th, 2020, 7:15 pm

2 PL OK.

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 20th, 2020, 4:01 pm

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Post by **craigdav1** » June 20th, 2020, 7:41 pm

3 PL OK.

Wow!

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 21st, 2020, 4:25 pm

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Post by **craigdav1** » June 21st, 2020, 6:46 pm

4 PL OK.

A tad lighter in mood.

david wales · Post by **david wales** » June 23rd, 2020, 4:28 pm

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