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Discussions   Civil War Round Table meetings, battlefield tours, educational seminars, telephone conversations — all important and powerful tools to help us gain a better understanding of the Civil War. Yet, these powerful tools have serious limitations. Speakers do most of the talking at meetings and seminars leaving little if any time to discuss interesting or fascinating topics. Once you leave a meeting or seminar follow up is difficult, even with email. Battlefield tours, Round Table meetings, and seminars require people to be in the same place at the same time. Battlefield tours and educational seminars can be expensive with travel spanning several days required. Telephone conversations require people to be connected at the same time. Because we are all busy people, we often play a vigorous game of telephone tag before we can be connected at the same time by the telephone. Meetings, tours, seminars, and telephone conversations leave, at best, jotted notes which are usually incomplete and often hard to find. Alternatives also have their own limitations: regular mail is slow, express mail is expensive, and email may be lost, accidently deleted, or not filed appropriately. A Soldier's General uses computer conferences to help overcome some of these limitations and build a community of individuals interested in selected parts of the Civil War. Computer conferences, similar to bulletin board systems, store information sent by one person so that it can be retrieved later by many others. When one person posts a question in a conference, many people can respond. Unlike telephone conversations, which are usually one-to-one, computer conferences are many-to-many — a tool for communities of interest. We even send you email when new messages are posted to topics that your are interested in; or, the entire message to which you can reply. We invite you to participate in discussions hosted by A Soldier's General. You have the ability to create your own topics and participate in other public topics. You can easily search the differenct conferences to find information important to you. You can participate in one of two ways. Guests have the ability to read all of the public discussions. Registered members can read and participate in each of the public or private discussions to which they have access. You only need to complete a short form with your name, password, and email address to Register and begin participating in our discussions. We welcome you to A Soldier's General and encourage you to help us develop our new Civil War community. Unlike other systems that refer to users as subscribers, we think of you as contributors. Your questions and answers contribute to our historical understanding of one of the most important events in our nation's history. This link will take you to A Soldier's General's discussions.

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