Recent content by Dr. Beach

Just wishing my Forum colleagues a Happy Holiday time! Has it really been so many years since this forum was founded?

Hello my Forum Friends: I have been invited to give a talk on my 2010 work, "The Last Moments of the Gunboat Diana, and Her Almost Final Resting Place." See: http://www.youngsanders.org/index.html

Wishing all of you a Happy Holiday, and remembering the many interactions we have had with one another over the many years in this Forum. I wanted to risk being a name-dropper, but for fear of missing any of those I have connected with, and learned from, it must suffice simply to say I am...

A Happy Thanksgiving to all of my Forum friends!

Some of you know that I have been researching and writing on a topic for the last couple of years. The Young-Sanders Research Center has just posted my article, "The Last Moments of the Gunboat Diana, and Her Almost Final Resting Place." I hope it will prove useful to those interested...

Hello to All on this Saturday from the Rainy west coast! A bit of a puzzler here with a number of embedded questions. I’ve recently come across a Confederate 6-pounder Mallet Polygonal Cavity Shell (which used a wood adapter for paper time fuse) that according to its former owner was...

A thread on "sharpshooter" bullets had caught my interest some time ago, but finally, over the Holidays, I had a chance to spend a bit of time with my “sharpshooter” collection. I was first drawn to examine my grouping of CS “sharpshooter” bullets—a number of neat elongated specimens of various...

Hello my CW relic community: At this holiday time, I just wanted to share an interesting experience I had last night concerning CW relic collecting—well, at least that was the catalyst for what ensued. We had guests last night, among whom there was a ten-year-old boy with an interest in...

Hello All: A couple of questions: First, in researching another matter (see my posts under “Pistol Bullet ID”) I had a realization that I’m curious about: there were .36 and .41 caliber CW handguns, but an absence of .38 caliber handguns in the Civil War. If I am right about that, I wonder...

I would like to honor CS Gen. Richard Taylor as my avatar. I've tried and tried to create a photo file that would take--either too many pixels, or file too large. An interesting photo of Taylor is at http://stonewall.hut.ru/leaders/taylor.htm A second choice can be found at...