Jed . . .

For your Civil War segment you may want to give a listen to and consider "Dixieland" off Steve Earle/Del McCoury's Mountain CD. Texas ain't mentioned, but it's a tremendous song about Buster Kilrain, who appears with the Killer Angels book/Gettysburg movie.

"I am Kilrain, I'm a fighting man and I come from County Clare/Where the Brits would hang me for a Fenian, so I took my leave of there . . . So joined up with the 20th Maine, did I say my friends I'm a fightin' man?/marching south in the pouring rain, we're all going down to Dixieland, ho!"

--Rob-o