User talk:Texasdaddee

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Ulysses S. Grant
Since you are continuing to make a number of edits to Ulysses S. Grant, I am going to take a break and stop making interim corrections until it settles down. One temporary comment however: the phrase "on the shelf" is rather colloquial for an encyclopedia article, particularly one with an international audience. You were correct on your change regarding the Army of Tennessee being a reappointment; my mistake. By the way, you should look into the history of that page and see what it was like before I added the small amount of military campaign detail that you have been expanding. Pitiful. Most editors here are more interested in slamming Grant as president. I am a big fan of his, although I try to suppress the tendency of some to turn biography into hagiography.

I welcome another Wikipedia participant who actually knows things about the military aspects the Civil War. Surprisingly few people editing here are interested in that. I have I have written or edited a few hundred articles on Civil War topics and have created an informal style guide that describes the formatting conventions I have tried to use to make them more consistent. I would welcome any comments you might have. Also, since you say in your User page that you are interested in the more violent episodes, feel free to correspond with me directly as I am mostly responsible for the articles on the battles you have cited. (I certainly agree that Franklin is one of the most interesting battles, but that it has very little public awareness. I can't say that I am as excited about the Confederate defense against Hancock's charge in Spotsylvania. Old Bald Head really bollixed that one up.)  Hal Jespersen 15:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Out of curiosity, where do you get your UTC timestamp from? And is it better to use UTC than time displayed in my own timezone?


 * I sign my comments with 4 "~" characters [together, no spaces] and it expands to include the time. I'm off to Gettysburg... Hal Jespersen 12:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Texasdaddee 04:21, 12 September 2005 (UTC)