Gosh, Jeff --- The more you write the more I regret that we were not able to get together while you were on assignment in Wayne. As a historian (I did my graduate work in American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania), I agree totally with your comments. I have read widely and deeply about the Civil War and one fact looms large and clear, to me, at least: in the years leading up to the War, northerners and southeners did not talk to (underlined) each other, they talked at (underlined) each other, saying the things they wanted to hear. 'Nuff said. Di Ann