GDG- My Tummy!

[CWMHTours at aol.com]

Hi!
 
I just mentioned it in passing.  I have a big interest in  geography and 
where every thing is.  I am under the impression that in the  deep cancerous 
silt behind the Conowingo that there is residual low level  radiation 
contaminants from the 70s.
 
Great!
 
THNX alot!  How am I going to be able to sleep tonite  when I am now 
worrying about the Conowingo Dam again? I've already got stomach trouble and now 
you ask about the  Conowingo!
 
Dammit!  Ouch!  My tummy!
 
A  Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
Peter  

 
In a message dated 1/24/2012 2:57:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:

Esteemed  GDG Member Contributes:
Doors the damning have anything to do with three  mile island?
Regards,
Jack

Jeff Burk <jlb4tlb at yahoo.com>  wrote:

>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>Your point about the  river being shallow is true today.  However that is 
because the river has  been dammed upstream.  during the  war the river 
flowed free.  
>
>
> Namaste
> 
>Jeff  Burk
>
>
>>________________________________
>>From:  "CWMHTours at aol.com" <CWMHTours at aol.com>
>>To:  gettysburg at arthes.com 
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:14  PM
>>Subject: Re: GDG- Inevitable  defeat
>>
>>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>>The  river at that point is frequently shallow in summer  droughts but 
very  
>>wide and quite an obstacle. Very rocky.
>>
>>A  smart and careful commander would not want to put more than  an  
>>expeditionary force that could have been sacrificed on the east  side of 
the  river.  
>>Harrisburg was no significant  military goal other than being a  state 
>>capital and RR  center.
>>
>>Thre are 2 57mm guns sitting on the west side  of the river  there.
>>
>>A  Loyal Neo-Anti  Unionist,
>>Peter  
>>
>>
>>In a  message dated 1/24/2012 2:22:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,   
>>mdblough1 at comcast.net  writes:
>>
>>Esteemed  GDG Member  Contributes:
>>Tom-The militia destroyed it in order to keep  the  Confederates using it 
to 
>>cross over the the eastern  shore of the Susquehanna.  Harrisburg is on 
the 
>>east and this  would have enabled the Confederates to  attack the city 
from  
>>both sides. While Lee initially ordered the bridge's   destruction, the 
ANV 
>>generals on the scene saw the advantages to  saving it and  tried to save 
it. 
>>The Susquehanna is not one  of the wildest rivers in the  world but 
bridges 
>>were needed  to cross it and with that bridge out there  wasn't another 
until  
>>Harrisburg. The hope was to destroy sections so it could  be  rebuilt 
later 
>>but, in the days before dynamite, that sort of  precision  wasn't easily 
>>obtained. The Columbia-Wrightsville  bridge was a wood &  stone covered 
bridge 
>>believed to be  the longest such bridge in the world at  the time and the 
flames  
>>that destroyed the wood, leaving only the granite  supports.  
>>
>>
>>Regards,  
>>
>>
>>Margaret 
>>
>>-----  Original  Message -----
>>From: "Tom"  <bunco973 at optonline.net> 
>>To: "GDG"   <gettysburg at arthes.com> 
>>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012  10:38:11 PM  
>>Subject: Re: GDG- Inevitable defeat  
>>
>>Esteemed GDG Member  Contributes:  
>>>>> And 
>>in fact, if you think about it, the  damn  thing IS still made of big 
>>granite blocks. Now just how  are you going to  knock the darn thing over 
>>without a  
>>whole lot of valuable time and  trouble? <<< It was  destroyed, by fire 
>>(not the granite supports  of course), by  Union militia. 
>>Regards, Tom B.   
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original  Message----- 
>>From: CWMHTours at aol.com  
>>Sent:  Monday, January 23, 2012 9:28 PM 
>>To: gettysburg at arthes.com   
>>Subject: Re: GDG- Inevitable defeat  
>>
>>Esteemed GDG Member  Contributes:  
>>Dave, 
>>
>>Respectfully Sir,  
>>
>>I think we disagree,  sir.  
>>
>>Where is it written that Lee disagreed with Jackson  about  destroying 
>>infrastructure in the North? I think Lee  was just about as  aggressive 
as 
>>Jackson was in bringing the  war to your opponent. for  example, 
Antietam, 
>>Gtysbg,  
>>& Monocacy. 
>>
>>I am not dispersing   you personally. I just see Lee & Jackson as being a 
 
>>balanced  combination. 
>>
>>By the time of  2nd Man Lee could see the Hammer and the  Anvil.  
>>
>>The Hammer was Jackson. 
>>
>>The  Anvil was the wonderful  James Peter Longstreet, the Old Warhorse.  
>>
>>Also, just curious, I don't  recall reference to  Lee being concerned 
about 
>>destroying the RR bridge  over the  Susq. R. being a big concern of his. 
And 
>>in fact, if you  think  about it, the damn thing IS still made of big 
>>granite  blocks. Now just how  are you going to knock the darn thing over 
 
>>without a 
>>whole lot of  valuable time and  trouble? 
>>
>>Lee's 3 raids up north where just that.   Raids. Move overwhelming forces 
>>up north and attack piecemeal  in  overwhelming force. 
>>
>>The purpose of going  north for Lee was to  de-stabilizing the North. 
>>Everything  else was a subset. 
>>
>>A Loyal  Neo-Anti Unionist,  
>>Peter   
>>
>>
>>
>>
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