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So in a war with mass casualties happening an era before DNA and other medical means of identifying remains, there were a lot of corpses that were buried without identification. But it was also an era in which bureaucracies kept meticulous records and most of those records do still exist. So roster...

[quote=steve-in-kville post_id=230505 time=<a href="tel:1713975794">1713975794</a> user_id=166] All I remember was Shirksville and Swatara are basically next to each other, but they were two different districts.... and there was some strange rivalry between the two. Friendly in nature, bu...

As for Hurt's claim. It turns out that the Johnson Island prisoner of war camp (which was specifically for officers) is actually famous for having one of the lowest death tolls of any prison camp in the entire war. There are complete military records of every Confederate officer who was held there ...

What information do you think has been "edited" or is incorrect? I don’t know what has been edited but the public records of confederate soldiers were edited, at least the ones I saw. They might be very accurate still and I’m not taking a position that they are not. Do you know if anyone ...

Having a strong personal interest in the civil war I would be very interested in hearing more about your relative’s experience. There is very little publicly available on this prison that has not been edited. There was supposedly pictures taken by prisoner that would show first hand experience of th...

Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:14 am And distant leaders are likely to be perceived as illegitimate, since they have no relationship with the people they purport to lead.

I suppose it really depends on what the role of a bishop is. Come in for communion, baptism and ordinations? Or to lead the church…

Local Mexican restaurant makes the nicest I’ve tried. We have about 10 Mexican restaurants in town, and this one comes to your table and makes it fresh right at your table for you. That's something I wish we had around here. We have a Chinese joint on almost every corner, but no real Mexican food. ...

If everyone is wrong but you, the analogy of the broken finger is very accurate.

Yes, this is the case. It has been under discussion for some time. At my church this past Sunday, we were given a conference report on the "PMC Branching." There will now be 3 conferences - the Lancaster/Lebanon/central PA churches will still be named "Pilgrim Conference." The O...

I don't know what you mean by wildly varying, but as I said earlier, there needs to be parameters of course. I'd rather be in a church with considerably different practices, in which nearly everyone in the church respects each other, than in a church with very little difference in practice, but lit...