User:Grayghost01

The Ghost

 * Graduated United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
 * Bachelor's Degree: Naval Architecture
 * Master's Degree: Systems Engineering
 * 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

Son of Confederate Veterans

I am directly descended from fifteen Confederate veterans of the War from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. My Georgia and South Carolina ancestors experienced the agony and utter destruction of Major General Sherman upon our farm and women. My G3-Grandfather Benjamin F. Nelson, 1stSgt (and later 2ndLt) of Company D, 22nd Alabama won the Southern Cross of Honor at the Battle of Murfreesboro. I owe it to them to help get the story straight for posterity. By that I mean that it is important here, in Wiki, to correctly and succinctly capture and explain Civil War history with high-quality articles. History must record deeds accurately as they were, and not as re-lived through the fantasies of the dishonorable few among the victors. May God bless our country and its future.

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.

Wikiwork
Unpleasant Northern Aggression:
 * Portal:American Civil War
 * WikiProject Military history/American Civil War task force
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/American Civil War task force
 * Portal:American Civil War/Selected biography
 * Portal:American_Civil_War/Selected_biography/Archive1
 * Portal:American_Civil_War/Selected_biography/Layout
 * User:Grayghost01/WBTS references
 * User:Grayghost01/WBTS Rank and Insignia
 * User:Grayghost01/WBTS Revisionism (the Truth shall set you free)
 * User:Grayghost01/CSNavy

The First Southern War for Independence:
 * Portal:American Revolutionary War

Island Rules:
 * WikiProject_Military_history/Assessment
 * Necessary beauracracies
 * WPMILHIST
 * Ignore all rules - "common sense" and "occasional exception": Two principles largely ignored in the American Civil War task force

The Beloved Commonwealth and Mother of the USA & CSA:
 * Portal:Virginia
 * WikiProject Virginia

A Peaceful Group
 * WikiProject Ships

Future Lost Cause "fanaticisms" and "fictions"
 * User:Grayghost01/Sandbox1 (Great Train Raid of 1861)
 * User:Grayghost01/Sandbox2 (Confederate States Naval Academy)
 * User:Grayghost01/Sandbox3 (Newspapers in the American Civil War)
 * User:Grayghost01/Sandbox4 (USNA grads in the CSN)

Keeping track of things
 * User:Grayghost01/image gallery
 * User:Grayghost01/Service
 * User:Grayghost01/edit helps
 * User:Grayghost01/maintenance

These are pages which I created and started
What drew me in to creating pages on Wiki was the lack of articles documenting Confederate military history. I had used Wiki to look up some information on a battle, and began noticing the usual over-coverage of all things "Union" as well as stark revisionist write ups, which made Southerners of that day sound like disgruntled warmongerers. Then I noticed that about 95% of the contributing editors were "interested" in Union topics and locations. Thus, to bring a fair and balanced view, Southern articles needed to be written. Thus you will see that I neither create nor edit Northern articles, as it is totally unnecessary.


 * Winchester in the American Civil War (class-B)
 * Romney Expedition (class-B)
 * Great Train Raid of 1861
 * Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
 * Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
 * First Corps, Army of Tennessee
 * Central Army of Kentucky
 * Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum (class-B)
 * Virginia Units in the Civil War
 * 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry
 * Winchester and Potomac Railroad (class-B)
 * Catoctin Station Raid
 * Gilmor's Raid
 * CSS Alabama's Eastern Atlantic Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Alabama's South Atlantic Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Alabama's South African Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Alabama's Indian Ocean Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Alabama's South Pacific Expeditionary Raid
 * CSS Tuscaloosa
 * Centreville Military Railroad (class-B)
 * Monticello (privateer)
 * Fort Collier
 * Valley District
 * Wikisource:Stealing Railroad Engines
 * WikiProject Military history/American Civil War task force/ranks (sorely needed)
 * CSS General Beauregard
 * 4th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
 * Confederate States Naval Academy

Navigation bars I've created
Lo and behold, in the course of creating and editing wiki articles, the need for some good navigation bars became obvious. Thus I created these:

Frederick County, Virginia in the American Civil War

Expeditionary Raids of the CSS Alabama

Gray Ghost

Stonewall

Lists I've created
Occasionally, I've come across a need to have a good list of items, and found that list lacking. Thus the lists I ginned up:
 * List of gaps of Virginia
 * List of railroads of the Confederate States of America

Categories I've created

 * Category:Raids in the American Civil War
 * Wikisource:Category:Confederate States of America documents
 * Category:Southern Cross of Honor

for reference

 * Category:United States Civil War navigational boxes

Pages to Create

 * Confederate States Naval Academy
 * Frederick County, Virginia in the American Civil War
 * The Skirmish of Falling Waters, July 2, 1861
 * The Leesburg Train Raid, August 7–29, 1861
 * JEB Stuart's 1863 Raid through Maryland
 * Possibly Colonel Jackson's Defence of the Lower Valley of 1861
 * Forts in Frederick County, Virginia: Fort Collier, etc.
 * First Corps, Army of the Mississippi
 * Second Corps, Army of the Mississippi
 * Third Corps, Army of the Mississippii
 * First Corps, Army of the Potomac
 * Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
 * Second Corps, Army of Tennessee
 * Manassas Junction
 * Battle of Ashby's Gap, July 19, 1864

Series to Create
Series on Potomac River Basin Raids, keying on the B&O and other railroads, the C&O Canal and the Potomac River:

1861

 * The Baltimore Riot of 1861, April 17, 1861
 * The Great Train Raid of 1861, May 23–June 23, 1861
 * The Leesburg Train Raid, August 7, 1861
 * The Raid on C&O Canal Dam Number 5, December 7, 1861

1862

 * The Romney Expedition, January 1 through January 24, 1862
 * Stuart's Chickahominy Raid, June 13-14, 1862
 * Various Raids of Brigadier General A. G. Jenkins, Fall, 1862
 * Stuart's First Chambersburg Raid, Oct 10-12, 1862

1863

 * The Warrenton Junction Raid, 43rd Bn, May 3, 1863
 * The First Catlett Station Raid, 43rd Bn, May 19, 1863
 * The Jones-Imboden Raid, April 24 through May 22, 1863
 * The Second Catlett Station Raid, 43rd, May 30, 1863
 * The Catoctin Station Raid, June 17, 1863
 * Jenkins Second Chambersburg Raid, mid June 1863
 * The First Calico Raid, 43rd, June 19, 1863
 * The Bealeton Station Raid, 43rd, September 22, 1863

1864

 * The B&O Raid on Duffield Station, 43rd, January, 1864
 * The McNeill Raid, May 5, 1864 [McNeill's Rangers]]
 * The Second Calico Raid, 43rd, July 3, 1864
 * The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864
 * Gilmor's Raid, July 11, 1864
 * The Third Chambersburg Raid, July 30, 1864
 * The Witcher Raid, September, 1864
 * The Manassas Gap Railroad Raid, 43rd, October 5, 1864
 * The Greenback Raid, 43rd Bn, October 14, 1864

1865

 * The B&O Raid on Duffield Station II, 43rd, January 18, 1865
 * The B&O Train Attack, 43rd, January 31, 1865
 * Gilmor's B&O Raid, February, 1865
 * The B&O Derailment Raid, 43rd, March 1865

People

 * Stonewall Jackson, Military career of Stonewall Jackson
 * John S. Mosby
 * Harry Gilmor
 * Raphael Semmes
 * Turner Ashby
 * Jedediah Hotchkiss
 * Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron

American Civil War

 * List of American Civil War topics
 * Southern Historical Society

(CSA)

 * Confederate States of America
 * Virginia in the American Civil War
 * List of American Civil War battles in Northern Virginia
 * List of American Civil War topics
 * Loudoun County in the American Civil War
 * Secession in the United States
 * Arizona in the American Civil War
 * Uniforms of the Confederate States military forces
 * Ranks and insignia of the Confederate States

(Units)

 * Confederate States Army
 * Army of Northern Virginia
 * First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
 * Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
 * Confederate Army of the Potomac
 * Confederate Army of the Shenandoah


 * 22nd Regiment Alabama Infantry
 * Signal Corps in the American Civil War - (a strange hybrid page listing the US Army first, despite the creation of the Signal Corps by the CSA ... yet more skewed Neo-Yankee baloney)
 * Confederate Secret Service


 * List of Civil War regiments from Georgia

(Campaigns)

 * General Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862
 * General Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign of 1862
 * General Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863
 * Bristoe Campaign
 * Mine Run Campaign
 * General Jubal Early's Valley Campaigns of 1864

(Battles)

 * First Battle of Winchester
 * Second Battle of Winchester
 * Third Battle of Winchester
 * First Battle of Kernstown
 * Second Battle of Kernstown
 * Battle of Belle Grove (or Cedar Creek)


 * Battle of Snicker's Ferry
 * Battle of Rutherford's Farm
 * Battle of Berryville


 * Battle of Upperville
 * Battle of Harpers Ferry


 * Battle of Hawe's Shop

(Infrastructure)

 * Confederate railroads in the American Civil War
 * Manassas Gap Railroad

(Cities/Towns)

 * Winchester, Virginia
 * White Hall, Frederick County, Virginia
 * Centreville, Virginia
 * Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

(Geography)

 * Northern Virginia
 * Fairfax Stone
 * Ashby Gap
 * Snickers Gap
 * Goose Creek (Potomac River)

(Infrastructure)

 * List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia
 * Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
 * Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops
 * Patowmack Canal

Miscellaneous

 * Portal:American Civil War