User talk:Civilwartalk

You have a workable "Manual of Style" now...study it carefully, make improvements if needed. This should be a site guideline for new and current editors. Bmac48 17:03, 29 April 2010 (EDT)

1911 Britannica and others

What will have to happen with the Britannica is that much will have to be re-written; the work is based on the language of late-19th to early 20th century English, and some words and grammar have gone out of style since then. In addition to that, we have the works of the National Park Service (you already know), and the following that we can use:

• "Staff Ride" articles and publications prepared by the U.S. Army;
• The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships;
• Online records posted by the United States Naval Historical Society;
• Selected works on the Civil War published before 1923 and available via the online Project Gutenburg;
• The Official Records posted by Cornell University or E-History.

Bmac48 23:47, 8 May 2010 (EDT)

I was planning on keeping an unedited copy of the 1911 available on the wiki for some selected content, and perhaps use some content for the ACW main page... Reading through it, I don't think it's that hard to read, a few $10 words here and there, it will make for good editing fodder. I'll likely create a 1911 Encyclopedia Category for source material.

Also, I agree with your points about other resources. I have some of the Staff Rides, Selected Works, and Official Records in plain text format, but they are ridiculously large... Need to figure out how to add them in a reasonable manner. Perhaps as a downloadable PDF....

What about this? http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/resources/csi/Chamberlain/CHAMBERLAIN.asp --Obviously this historical society can copyright the pamphlet, but the text of Chamberlain's report is still public domain right?

Civilwartalk 00:23, 9 May 2010 (EDT)

The text is still public domain; it can be used. As to "ridiculously large" stuff, they are usually battles; why not have, say, three articles on the Battle of Gettysburg alone...one article for each day. The same rule applies to Chancellorsville, First Bull Run, Shiloh, or any battle two days or more in length. I'm going to port over a test for your main ACW, just to see what you think of splicing it off into one article per year...Bmac48 00:32, 9 May 2010 (EDT)

My ACW test articles

I wrote the main article on the Civil War for Conservapedia, but split it into one-per-year, as indicated by ACW test article 1864 and ACW test article 1865 which I uploaded a few minutes ago. If you want this format, I will upload the remainder; feel free to do any re-writes of any of the subtopics as needed. Bmac48 00:53, 9 May 2010 (EDT)

I have started to organize articles in a similar manner, specifically bio pages: Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant. Check the Biography Index, I was setting up the same type of article breakdown. Feel free to add your articles as time permits, they look great. Civilwartalk 01:03, 9 May 2010 (EDT)

I'll have your ACW article series done within a week. Bmac48 01:13, 9 May 2010 (EDT)

Excellent! I'm restarting my recruitment effort as we speak. I'm going to keep working on assembling primary source material, nav templates where needed, and downloading an image collection later next week. Civilwartalk 01:19, 9 May 2010 (EDT)

Service stripes

You may want to investigate this further; I declined using the service stripes in the recent additions to the Union insignia, as they may have been implemented after the war [1]. Bmac48 14:31, 13 May 2010 (EDT)

I'm pretty sure they were used during the war, but I'm not sure the extent. On this forum there are many period photos of men wearing service chevrons throughout the period. [2] Civilwartalk 15:45, 13 May 2010 (EDT)

I found this link[3], which is a period photograph of a CW uniform bearing a service stripe. I think that's what I need to see. What I'll do is to take the examples of service stripe we have and incorporate them on various sleeves here. Bmac48 15:54, 13 May 2010 (EDT)

Got it: REVISED REGULATIONS for the ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1861 [4]-- 1558. To indicate service--all non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, who have served faithfully for the term of five years, will wear, as a mark of distinction, upon both sleeves of the uniform coat, below the elbow, a diagonal chevron, one-half an inch wide, extending from seam to seam, the front end nearest the cuff, and one-half an inch above the point of the cuff, to be of the same color as the edging on the coat. In like manner, an additional half chevron, above and parallel to the first, for every subsequent five years of faithful service; distance between each chevron one-fourth of an inch. Service in war will be indicated by a light or sky blue stripe on each side of the chevron for Artillery, and a red stripe for all other corps, the stripe to be one-eighth of an inch wide. Civilwartalk 16:04, 13 May 2010 (EDT)

Main ACW article

This would be part 1: User:Bmac48/ACW1 test page. Go over it carefully; feel free to place info where needed. Once it's done it could be the start of the main ACW series. Working on part 2 tomorrow. Bmac48 02:59, 16 May 2010 (EDT)

I'm not sure I'll have time to play with this today, but it looks great. I can see a few minor tweaks may be needed to my ACW template, good work! Civilwartalk 07:28, 16 May 2010 (EDT)

1862 battle articles, et al

If you look at the recent stuff added, you'll notice that every battle for 1862 now has an article page...but, it's only templates for now. What I think should happen - and since this is a relatively-new website - is that we should concentrate first on the "war" part of the Civil War. The easiest part would be filling in the infoboxes with the required data; then we can add the NPS summaries as a temporary filler, then add pics. Bmac48 23:16, 5 August 2010 (EDT)

Thanks!

Thanks for the message! I hope to get busy on here soon. One suggestion that I might make would be to have a template for writing a how-to. Also, how do I start a new page? I don't see any button. Thanks! Anson S 10:29, 25 November 2010 (EST)

I'm glad to greet you, and perhaps you can help us fill out some reenacting categories. I've never visited WikiHow before today and it's an interesting site, I'm going to have to check around more. We have a more basic/stock installation of MediaWiki, the same program that drives WikiHow, they have some very neat and custom features on their site, and I'd love to know how they set that up.

Anyway, to create a new page: type the title of the new page in the search box and hit go, you will be able to create the new page on the search results page. Just look for the line: "Create the page "New Page Name Goes Here" on this wiki!" Click on the red link to create the page.

After explaining this to you, I realize that we absolutely need a "How to Create a Page" tutorial, I will work on that very soon!

Civilwartalk 12:31, 25 November 2010 (EST)

Battle names

If you notice from this example (Battle of Mill Springs) there are several names each for most of the battles on record. There's a Union name, a Confederate name, and possibly local names. Although I am of the opinion that placing all of these names within the infobox is a good thing, it may be crowded. My proposal is to list the main Union and Confederate names as they are - "Bull Run" and "Manassas" will be treated equally, for example; any additional names would be reduced by the use of the "small" function within "< >". Bmac48 13:54, 6 December 2010 (EST)

Civil War fonts

This website [5] has a set of Civil War fonts. Could they be used here in some fashion, such as in the titles of articles? Bmac48 22:26, 20 December 2010 (EST)