Who's In Charge Around Here?

Well, I haven't felt much myself lately, on top of being busy with some work projects, so my time (and energy) for blogging has been seriously diminished. I put a lot of work into this blog. Maybe it doesn't look like it, but every post takes a couple of hours on average to complete. I just haven't had that in me lately.

I have been watching Ken Burn's documentary on the Civil War. It glosses over some incredibly important and interesting details, but I suppose he had to keep it to the 13 hour limit. Aside from having some revisionist history inserted about the slavery-war situation, I am really enjoying it. One of the contributing historians was the great Shelby Foote. He wrote a three volume history on the Civil War, which I will likely be picking up. I am learning so much about the Civil War I never knew, and was never taught in school. I will be having my kids learn history by any means but a text book when they are in school. What a waste of time reading facts about history that will quickly be forgotten. Facts do not equal truth, anyhow. It is how the facts are tied together with story and perspective that give one what the truth is. I think Jesus demonstrated that well.

How about another history question that no one will dare to touch with a ten foot pole? Who was the general in command (in charge, hence the post title) of all the Union forces at Gettysburg? If you want to be a real genius, you can throw in what the Battle of Gettysburg was fought over.

Blessings,

Jared

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." Fyodor Dostoevsky