Comments on: No Casino Gettysburg Video Presentation from 8/31/2010 Hearing http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/7464/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Thu, 23 May 2013 14:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Peters http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/7464/#comment-17036 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:28:33 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=7464#comment-17036 A balanced response to the argument from you, Harry. A purely technical approach to what’s proposed, but I wouldn’t have expected anything else. whilst I agree, the ‘sentiment card’ has to be used as most people wouldn’t understand a decision based solely on ‘the experience of the battlefield’. They just wouldn’t care!

]]> By: Dick Stanley http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/7464/#comment-17035 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:00:51 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=7464#comment-17035 A casino would no doubt detract from the solemnity of the battlefield, until you consider how many of the troops on both sides played cards or rolled dice for money.

Gambling was common among the Rebs, anyhow, though it was said that even the irreligious ones always left their dice and cards with the baggage before a fight—not wanting their kin to find them on their body should they be killed.

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