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)

Marine Corps University

1 Son of Confederate Veterans
2 Jackson's Methodology
3 My Contributions
4 Miscellaneous

[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.

This user is a member of the American Civil War task force

[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.

[edit] My Contributions

[edit] Pages I Created

[edit] Major Contributions

[edit] Pages 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
First Corps, Army of Tennessee
Second Corps, Army of Tennessee