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I have been trying (and failing) to send a message to John Peterson at
the National Park Service who is in charge of the listings of African
American Civil War soldiers, but I keep getting "unable to deliver"
messages back. I checked with my computing center and they couldn't
figure out why the messages were bouncing back. His email address
includes an underline symbol that separates his first and last name
and that seems to be the source of the problem. Has anyone else had this
problem and what can I do about it? Failing an answer to that query,
John Peterson, if you are out there, could you send me an email so that
I can use your header to reply? Thanks in advance.
Now for the cock fighting question. I am analyzing a small house site that
dates from the late 18th to the mid 19th century (Nelson County, Kentucky)
and may be a slave cabin associated with a larger house on the same farm.
The faunal assemblage included an atypically large chicken with a large
spur. Does anyone know of references to 19th century cock fighting that
might have some info. on the robustness of fighting cocks, and when the
use of those murderous steel spurs began? Or anything on big chickens
in general? My faunal analyst says he doesn't think it is a turkey.
However, all we have to compare it to is chicken bones from critters that
were raised for eating not fighting.
P.S.
I have several queries from people who saw mention of the Civil War Af. Amer.
soldiers' roster but didn't catch the website. So I am sending it to the
list again. The address is: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/usct.html
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