One of the most wonderful things in my life has been to get to know people for ONE reason and suddenly find ANOTHER common interst as has just happened here! I've done a lot of Civil War reading-- first book was Fletcher Pratt's Short History of the Civil War which is exactly what it says went from there through Bruce Catton to Shelby Foote & then back to some of the original memoirs plus the four-volume reissue of Battles and Leaders. Haven't had much time to travel & visit battle sites but that may change. And the songs! A friend and I do historical programs & show up in Civil War costume & start with Darling Nelly Gray, go through the war and generally wind up with Home Sweet Home. I still have trouble singing the line in Bonnie Blue Flag about "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil." At least they were honest about it. And we generally do Dixie more or less the way Gid Tanner recorded it. I'm glad the North won. (My great-grandfather helped) PETE