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Sponsor |  Diamondz | Apr 25, 2007 1:07pm | ... the Civil War When...
-Your shoes are blue and grey
-You argue with battlefield tour guides
-You win the arguments
-You have Civil War related T-shirts
-Everyone thinks you were a Civil War general in a former life
-You have one of those weird Civil War hats, and you wear it constantly
-You're convinced that you're being followed by Confederate sharpshooters
-When you forget your homework, your excuse is, "Mosby's Rangers took it!"
-You run down the street screaming, "Forward, Army of the Potomac! CHARGE!"
-Everyone thinks you should be a battlefield tour guide
-You take your Girl Scout/Boy Scout troop camping on a battlefield
-You want to legally change your name to "Antietam"
-You've written Civil War stuff that people think you should get published
- Five battlefield trips, one roll of film
- Five rolls of film, one battlefield trip
-The photo developers know your rolls of film from all the battlefield photos
-People are terrified of you
-When you say, "Wanna hear about the battle of Antietam?", the room clears
-You get calls from around the country asking for Civil War information
-Instead of posters of movie stars, rock bands, etc., the walls of your room are covered with pictures of Lee, Grant, Chancellorsville, Appomattox, etc.
-You've been to a summer camp where you spent 3 weeks studying the Civil War
-You were the most obsessed person in the class
-Your teacher sends your classmates to you when they have Civil War questions
-Your idea of a great time is a long hike on a battlefield, in any weather condition
-When you say, "Forget about the Titanic- it happened a long time ago!", people say, "Then how do you explain yourself?"
-Your parents start calling you "General"
-You think the San Diego Chargers should move to Gettysburg
-You tell your Geometry teacher that the only angles you care about are the ones at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania
-You remember important dates by the battle anniversaries they're on
-You have a sign on your door that says "Army of the Potomac Headquarters"
-When you go on a road trip, you cheer whenever you pass a Civil War site
-You've ruined pairs of shoes from touring battlefields
-You manage to work something about Chancellorsville into your science homework
-You correct your teachers when they mention an incorrect Civil War "fact"
-You have signed the guestbook at Antietam, "George B. McClellan- I'm back, and you blame me for too many things!"
-You have left a lemon at the Stonewall Jackson Shrine
-Whenever you see a picture of a walrus, you automatically say, "Burnside."
-Whenever you see a picture of an elephant, you say, "Poor General Sedgwick."
-You've memorized a fairly detailed chronology of the Civil War
-All of your in-class doodles are Civil War related
-On St. Patrick's Day, you wonder why there are so many Union II Corps badges hanging around
-You've eaten hardtack, complete with weevils
-You can spell "Chickamauga" without thinking about it
-People tell you to "Get a life", and you say, "I can't. I lost it in the Wilderness."
-You think General Sherman should carry the next Olympic torch
-You drive from Winchester to Cedar Creek, then you change your car's name to "Winchester"
- You have scared people off of battlefields
- People have threatened to leave you on a battlefield
- Those people follow through on their threats
- You have gone around the entire city of Frederick, MD on all fours, looking for a Lost Order
- Whenever you see someone holding a lemon, you scream "STONEWALL LIVES!"
- Some of your closest friends are Civil War soldiers
- You want to go to Gettysburg and time yourself on running Pickett's Charge
- You throw a hissy fit when you find out that 3rd Winchester battlefield is now a playground
- You break down sobbing when you find out how many battlefields are endangered
- You send hate mail to people who want to develop battlefields
- You are able to successfully load and fire a Civil War cannon
- Your e-mail address is something like "FstBullRun@aol.com" or "Antietam91762@hotbot.com"
-You don't have e-mail-- you have a telegraph instead
- You are on nickname terms with General Bob Ned Lee
- You have paid enough money to battlefield preservation groups that you own a whole battlefield
- When you visit a Civil War site, you are the definitions of "obsessed" and "hyper"
- You have stumped reenactors with your quiz questions
- Reenacting groups beg you to join them
-On any given day, if it's a siege anniversary at all, you know to date exactly how many days that siege had been going on
-You celebrate the birthdays of Civil War Generals
-On major battle anniversaries, on things that need to be dated (tests, checks, etc.), you accidentally write the year of the battle instead of the current year.
- Your term for "The End" is "Appomattox" |
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Sponsor | | Mustang-Kev | Apr 25, 2007 6:43pm | LOL I love 'em!!
Thank you, mah dear, dear lady for that fine contribution to this humble Forum.
*Tipping hat, bowing deeply...* |
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Sponsor | | Diamondz | Apr 25, 2007 8:35pm | Why you're just evah so welcome, Mistah Kev. Tell me do, would you all be related to the fine ole southern family of the Tennessee branch of Kevs? Fine people, they. I reckon they made their vast fortune in produce. ;)
*demure curtsey..extending gloved hand* |
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Sponsor | | Mustang-Kev | Apr 25, 2007 8:47pm | Why, ah say, of course, Ma'am. We still do it the same 'ol tried and true way of those deah, saintly hard workin folk. We chop that lettuce, we pick them maters, we pick them beans, and we shuck that corn.
*taking gloved hand, kissing it ever so gently* |
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Sponsor | | Diamondz | Apr 25, 2007 8:49pm | | I do declare, Suh.. You wouldn't be a'shuckin and a'jivin with me, now would you? :) |
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Sponsor | | Mustang-Kev | Apr 25, 2007 8:53pm | | Why, m'lady, there ain't a dishonest bone in this here body... :) |
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Sponsor | | Diamondz | Apr 25, 2007 8:57pm | | Uh huh..I've heard-tell about you boys who "whistle Dixie" :) |
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Sponsor | | Ogmin | May 6, 10:57am | ...Biblical justifications when you fabricate, bury and discover Hebrew artifacts in New Jersey.
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Hoax thrust area into slavery debate
By L.B. WHYDE
NEWARK -- Trying to preserve the Union during a tumultuous time in history, several prominent local men conspired and manufactured artifacts to support an emerging anti-slavery theory.
Known as Newark's Holy Stones, the artifacts later were proven to be fake. But two local men have done extensive research to discover the reasons behind the conspiracy.
Brad Lepper, an Ohio Historical Society archaeologist, first learned of the pair of hand-carved stones found in the Newark area in 1860 while he was a graduate student working at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Coshocton, where the original stones are housed.
When he became the curator at the Newark Earthworks in 1988, Lepper had to learn about the fake artifacts because of the number of questions about them. But when Jeff Gill, a history enthusiast and supply preacher, moved into the area in 1989, the duo continued the research to discover the men and reasons behind the conspiracy.
"Looking into the background of what was going on at that time period, it shows us how Licking County played a role in the movement for freedom of rights," Gill said. "They (the conspirators) did it for the right reasons, but I deplore their methods."
The first of the Holy Stones, called the keystone, was discovered in June 1860 by county surveyor David Wyrick in the area of what is now the practice field at Newark Catholic.
The atmosphere at the time was contentious with conflicts about slavery and war pending. Two theories -- monogenesis and polygenesis -- were being discussed to explain the origins of races. The biblical idea of monogenesis, in which all humans were created from Adam and Eve, was being challenged by polygenesis. The idea that God created different kinds of people in different parts of the world was gaining popularity.
Wyrick, as did many others at that time, thought the builders of the Newark Earthworks were the lost tribes of Israel that somehow had traveled to North America.
"You have to understand the historical situation at that time," Lepper said. "These (stones) were scientific forgeries, not a hoax, which is a practical joke. These were faked in order to advance or prove a scientific theory. People behind it were very, very serious."
The first stone unearthed had several flaws, including being found too close to the surface and the fact the writing was modern Hebrew for that time. Five months later, another stone, called the Decalogue Stone, was discovered much deeper, in the area of Jacksontown.
Again Wyrick found the stone, which seemed to answer all the flaws of the first stone. The stones were claimed to be conclusive proof that all men descended from Adam and Eve. After both stones later were found to be fake, and his premature death, the blame was put on Wyrick by former Newark Mayor Israel Dille.
"This discovery undermined polygenesis and the reason for slavery," Lepper said. "We believe the stones were created as anti-slavery artifacts."
Gill, with his background as a minister, brought another perspective to the research project and soon was pointing his finger at the Rev. John McCarty, the Episcopalian minister at Trinity Church. McCarty did the translating of the Hebrew writing on both stones, as he was the only one in the area with that knowledge.
Gill and Lepper both agree that in addition to McCarty, Dille was prominent in the conspiracy as his only son would be going off to the pending Civil War. His son died in the war. Gill has narrowed it down to a stonecutter by the name of Sutton, as a conspirator.
"(The conspirators) were frustrated by the lack of scientific evidence to support that blacks and Indians were human beings," Gill said. "Once the war started, there was no more purpose to the stones, and they were sold to a man in Coshocton in 1868."
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