Under no circumstances begin a post with a reference to ten pounds of dog poop.

I think I speak for a vast silent majority on this.

Uh, uh, no. I said “no”.

Regarding dog poop, the answer is “NO”. Don’t make me come over there!

Mannie

You can e-mail me at eric at civilwarcavalry.com, and we can discuss it.

Eric

I haven’t bought the book yet, so I don’t know. We’re really just getting started with the research. I’ve just had my eye on it for a long time.

Eric

I couldn’t figure out any other way to email you, so I figured I would use this Leave a Comment feature.

I’m the President, Program Director, and Newsletter Editor for the Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table. We are proudly celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. Today I received the CWRT of Milwaukee newsletter (we many of us editors send complimentary copies to each other) and I noticed that you are going to appear in Milwaukee on October 20th. Our Round Table meets on October 19th, and if you are driving to Milwaukee I was wondering if you would kindly stop by and present a program for us. Unfortunately, I was unable to come see you when you appeared in Ann Arbor a few years ago, but I hear it was great fun (unless one is a Sheridan fan. I’m not.). Anyway, if you would do your Stuart at Gettysburg program I imagine that quite a few people from Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, etc. would come over to see you. We’re about halfway between Columbus and Milwaukee, so it would be a good place to stop.

Please let me know if you are willing and able to stop and see us so I can arrange our program schedule. Also, please let me know what you normally receive for expenses, honorarium, etc.

David,

Truth be told, we both actually have our basements full of trolls who do our writing for us. They’re good and cheap – they write 23 hours a day in the dark and eat nothing but oatmeal (with just a little honey). Everything’s fine so long as we keep the basement door locked.

Did I remember to do that last time I was down there?

Gotta run… the wife’s screaming something about seeing a figure about 3 feet tall, running across the living room floor, screaming something about “Sheridan… Farnsworth… Pleasonton…. I can’t TAKE it anymore!!!”

Must be time to ease up on the honey again…

J.D.

Again you’ve hit the nail on the head. The same thing that bothers you about Leepson’s book is what bothered me about James Swanson’s “Manhunt”. Ed Steers and Mike Kauffman are two fine historians who have written what are now the standards in the field of Lincoln’s assassination, but at BN we have just one copy of each (and we have Mike’s book because of my insistence that we carry it) and about 10 copies of Swanson, which is just wrong no matter how you slice it. While I obviously have no problem selling any book (it’s what pays my salary) I do have a problem when people equate the number of copies on the shelf with the quality of the work. Good rant!

Best
Rob

Sorry to hear about this book. You are right. It doesn’t make sense. However, if life was fair, Elvis would still be alive and all his impersonators would be dead.

Best wishes always,
Lanny