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You really should. When I'm drunk and stupid I'm still smart enough to know that I should double check whatever stupid thing I just decided to share to at least make sure that I spelled things correctly.

It's much more common than you might think. Fort Soqualmie, Washington is where attempts to trace my ancestry end. My great-great-great grandfather most definitely wasn't a Native American because the two swords which have been handed down have Hirigana carved into them.

During the Civil War most of the ships were Army river gunboats and not seaworthy in anything but the calmest of bathtubs. The Navy got 671 warships, many of which - like USS Moniter - weren't seaworthy either.

Are you drunk? The spelling and logic you used would have made my daughters cringe when they were still learning how to tie their shoes.

No. I mean the 18th century one that was used during the American Revolution. Vincennes, Indiana was the first Indiana state capital. For someone claiming to be military intelligence ... you are a complete idiot.

Fort Vincennes would disagree with that statement ... Vincennes was the first Capital of Indiana.

One of McClellan's greatest strengths was logistics. The Union didn't really need to worry about things like "do we have enough shoes in the proper sizes so that everyone has a pair" at a time when mass produced shoes didn't come in right-and-left pairs. Gettysburg happened because the...

Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott was from Virginia. The second person promoted to Lieutenant General after George Washington. The third was US Grant. "Old Fuss and Feathers". He was in charge of the entire US Army for two decades and the Union basically followed his outline of "here's...

My wife thinks that Lee was actually worse than McClellan because he couldn't actually defeat McClellan's caution and thinks that he was way worse than JE Johnston (i.e.:"Retreatin' Joe") because Lee turned JE Johnston's plans for the Seven Days into a clusterfuck where the Union was already...

I prefer it if they chose names based on something like a nearby town, landmark, or geographic feature that's not named after any one particular person.