American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Do you ever look at the Civil War and simply marvel at a few points that just can't be explained easily?


Wilmer McLean's house first stood at Manassas in 1861 and was used by Beauregard as his Headquarters. To escape the war he later moved to Appomattox where Lee and Grant met in his home to discuss the surrender of the ANV.

Gettysburg and Vicksburg were both victories that fell on July 4.

Lincoln was killed on Good Friday after having just lived long enough to see the end of the war.


I am sure I am missing a few more wonderful examples of the irony of the war. Some may even call it a divine hand or the like. I don't know what term to use but sometimes when you read and study this war things just seem to be inexplicable at times.

Some of the stuff that intrigues me, but are not necessarily Ironies, is what makes the study of the war so interesting.

It was such a polarizing event.

Why read a novel when there are events in history like the Amrican Civil War. You can't make this stuff up.

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Brigadier General Kevin Koch
2/2/VI
AotS

Affirmative. I wish I knew who in hell put Tom Brokaw in charge of deciding who "The Greatest Generation" was. The ACW generation and the great men & women in it, both in the North and South, were beyond a doubt "The Greatest Generation", NOT the WW II G.I. generation. My .02 cents...

Tom Brokaw was going to name it the "Second Greatest Generation" but they figured sales would be better the other way around.

Personally I think the Revolutionary Generation was the "Greatest Generation."

Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Marshall, Hancock, Jay, Henry, and, in honor of our French allies Lafayette, and our Prussian allies von Steuben, and our Polish allies Pulaski!

Hmmm, I wonder what the generation of post-WWII Baby Boomers (to which I belong) will be called: "The 69th Greatest Generation" ?

According to Wikipedia I can be part of either Generation X or a Millenial (born 1981).

I am going to choose Millenial as it makes me feel younger!

I think the odyssey of Special Order 181 to be one of the oddest incidents of the war.

This topic made me think of Cornelius Ryan's "The Longest Day" where he examined minor incidents from D-Day and how odd they appeared with what was going on during the battle.

Cadet Kenneth Crist

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Brigadier General Kenneth Crist, USV
1st Division Commander
XVII Corps
Army of the Tennessee