As posted below, my wife and I joined Facebook last week and we have already reconnected with a dozen friends and colleagues. (She more than I, as people seem to still like her.) I have also been contacted via email by several former teachers of mine; all great guys, all who retired, and some who are Civil War enthusiasts working on a book project. What this means is that my 8th grade math teacher is now co-editing a collection of soldier’s letters for publication and he and his associates have asked if they could query me from time to time. Of course I told them I would be more than happy to assist with whatever they need. Still, if you would have told me back in 1984 that someday I would be advising my Middle School teacher on a Civil War book, I would have shot milk through my nose. (Best of all they have put me in contact with my 6th-grade history teacher who started me down this road in the first place.) Tomorrow evening I am meeting with a film director from Georgia down at the Fredericksburg Battlefield to walk the sunken road and discuss a very special documentary project. I’ll post some pics later this week.