User:Grayghost01

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• Retired USMC Officer
• Former Command and Control (C²) Instructor at Marine Corps University
• Published author in IEEE Communications Magazine on Gulf War C⁴
• Expert on C³I analysis of the War of Northern Aggression (aka The War Between the States)

Contents 1 Son of Confederate Veterans 1.1 Jackson's Methodology 2 Created Articles 2.1 Created 2.2 Articles I Plan to Create 3 Contributions 3.1 To American Civil War 3.2 To Virginia 3.3 Plan to Contribute To 3.4 Plan to Review 4 Miscellaneous 5 Notations

[edit] Son of Confederate Veterans

I am descended from three Confederate veterans of the War from Georgia, Texas and South Carolina. My South Carolina ancestors experienced the agony and utter destruction of Gen. W.T. Sherman upon our farm and women. I owe it to them to help get the story straight for posterity. We were Irish, none owned slaves, and if anything ... escaped it ourselves from Ireland, by coming into Norfolk and not New York City! May God rest the souls of our Irish brothers who died slaving in the coal mines while this war freed people other than themselves. For them, the war was about defending the home and farm, but that was not successfully done, and the ravage to our grandmother and the daughters is unspeakable. History must record deeds accurately as they were, and not as re-lived through the fantasies of the dishonorable few among the victors, who defy the terms of Grant. May God bless our country and its future. In the Spirit of the Gray Ghost, men can deal with men in honor, but the dishonorable deserve a legacy of infamy.

[edit] Jackson's Methodology

Is perfectly alive and well in the USMC today, down to the prescribed method of march. My USMC Valley Campaigns text, old and worn, is still the best reading on the war in print, and surpasses the Small Wars Manual for merit of content. I hope the tradition of marching Jackson's end-run on Hooker will never pass from the hallowed halls of The Basic School, and that "Wicked Men" may never enter into our beloved Corps, in whom the valor and spirit of our Southern Men lives on.

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[edit] Created Articles

[edit] Created

• Winchester in the Civil War
• Romney Expedition
• Great Train Raid of 1861
• Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
• Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
• First Corps, Army of Tennessee
• Central Army of Kentucky
• Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum
• Virginia Units in the Civil War
• 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry

[edit] Articles I Plan to Create

• The Martinsburg Train Raid, June 20-23, 1861
• The Leesburg Train Raid, August 7, 1861
• Possibly Colonel Jackson's Defence of the Lower Valley of 1861
• Possibly a schema or series on B&O Railroad, C&O Canal and Potomac River Valley Raids of the ACW
• First Corps, Army of the Mississippi
• Second Corps, Army of the Mississippi
• Third Corps, Army of the Mississippii
• First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
• Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
• First Corps, Army of the Potomac
• Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
• Second Corps, Army of Tennessee

American Civil War raids, raiders and raider bases involving the B&O Railroad:

• Some famous battles and raids
  • The Great Train Raid of 1861, May 1861
  • The Martinsburg Train Raid, June 20-23, 1861
  • The Leesburg Train Raid, August 7, 1861
  • The Romney Expedition, January 1 through January 24, 1862
  • Various Raids of Brigadier General A. G. Jenkins, Fall, 1862
  • The Jones-Imboden Raid, April 24 through May 22, 1863
  • The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864
  • Gilmor's Raid, July 11, 1864

[edit] Contributions

[edit] To American Civil War

• Second Battle of Winchester
• Army of Northern Virginia
• Confederate States Army
• Battle of Upperville
• List of American Civil War topics

[edit] To Virginia

• Winchester, Virginia
• White Hall, Virginia
• Ashby Gap
• Goose Creek (Potomac River)

[edit] Plan to Contribute To

• The First Battle of Kernstown
• The First Battle of Winchester
• The Battle of Snicker's Ferry
• The Second Battle of Kernstown
• The Battle of Berryville
• The Third Battle of Winchester
• The Battle of Belle Grove (or Cedar Creek)
• The Battle of Hawe's Shop
• Virginia in the Civil War

[edit] Plan to Review

• General Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862
• General Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign of 1862
• The Battle of Harpers Ferry
• General Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863
• Valley Campaigns of 1864

[edit] Miscellaneous

• My editcount

[edit] Notations

On 29 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Romney Expedition, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)