Hello from another newbie

[MajGenl.Meade]

(10-30-2013 08:32 AM)brtmchl Wrote:  Peter, I didn't realize that the site I was on was yours. I liked it very much. I love reading the memoirs and letters from the actual people. It gives a whole different perspective. I read many letters and plan on returning to read more. You have given me a new perspective on Meade.
There was one letter I found particularly funny and also sad

I appreciate your appreciation! I'm anxious to clarify that my Meade Monologues (as I call them) are totally fictitious. So in that post-war meeting with Grant, the true parts are that Lee and Grant met. The false part is that Meade was there at all. You can read Meade's real letters on-line at several places - one is https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofgeo01mead. That's vol 1. To get vol 2 just change the end to geo02mead

Mostly, each Monologue dealt with the subject of that month's talk at the Civil War Roundtable. On their website you'll also find an article I wrote about Meade in Dec 1861 and one about a Confederate from the CSS Alabama who died and was buried near Cape Town, SA. Those are supposed to be factual

Cheers
Peter

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(10-30-2013 08:07 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Mike and Peter - thanks to both of you. Is it a very stupid question to ask what that sword contest (vote) was?

It certainly is not! Please read the full results here http://www.nytimes.com/1864/07/01/news/p...meade.html

At various Sanitary Fairs, one of the fund-raisers involved the donation of various gifts (swords, harness, vases, pistols etc). People could then pay $1 to vote for who should get each gift. The more $$$ you paid, the more votes you could cast.

Meade won the sword but the winners of the other items (in the NY Times link) make interesting reading. Note Lincoln's vote total in one particular category!

Regards
Peter