Your emails were forwared to me for I'm very interested in the 3rd MS (I had 21 relatives who served in Co. F & 1 in H of the 3rd which was raised in Hancock Co) & I was raised in the Bay. I now live in Denver CO. but still have family there I found it very interesting about the skirmish between the 9th Conn & local units. I would like to thank you gentlemen for the information & would like to make a point though "To get so upset over trash talk it's not worth it, just last night I had to deal with a person who still thinks that everyone from the South is a (redneck peckerwood) I'm not going to leave the reading group because of her! As I always say "American by Birth, Southerner by the Grace of God, Marine by Choice"