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Re: Navy and Marine Corps Discussion
Sven, Al, and Craig,
Thank you for bringing this thread alive again! I had been watching it back in 2007 to see if it would go anywhere beyond the thread. I had forgotten about it until Sven dug it out and re-vitalized it. I will say my part now nine years later:
Moderators and AC Members,
As an active duty officer in the United States Navy who is stationed at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) and whom has just completed his thesis defense on the development of the naval officer profession in the early American republic, I believe that a Navy and Marine Corps Forum must be created here at the AC. It would be greatly beneficial for those who are interested in sharing research, discussing a mostly neglected aspect of the war, potentially creating and coordinating future events, and improving the impression of those who do pursue this mostly neglected portion of the American Civil War Reenacting/Living Historian community.
To further explain how I could contribute to such a Forum:
My current active duty billet is History Instructor at the United States Naval Academy on a three year rotational tour. I only have 2 years and 9 months left here at Annapolis. That being said, I currently have unlimited access to the USNA Special Collections and Archives, special access as requested by me to the USNA Museum Collection, and various other accesses to important correspondence of the Secretaries of the Navy and Secretary of War through the end of the Civil War period. Once I transfer back to the operational fleet, I will not have the access I currently have. In short, I can share research that is not common to most.
I strongly believe that myself and others can share research in a newly created Navy and Marine Corps Forum.
Just my thoughts as an AC member since 2003 (profile shows 2006 due to having to re-register in 2006 after the Great AC Server Crash of 2005).
With the Kindest of All Regards,
Matt Semple
Sven, Al, and Craig,
Thank you for bringing this thread alive again! I had been watching it back in 2007 to see if it would go anywhere beyond the thread. I had forgotten about it until Sven dug it out and re-vitalized it. I will say my part now nine years later:
Moderators and AC Members,
As an active duty officer in the United States Navy who is stationed at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) and whom has just completed his thesis defense on the development of the naval officer profession in the early American republic, I believe that a Navy and Marine Corps Forum must be created here at the AC. It would be greatly beneficial for those who are interested in sharing research, discussing a mostly neglected aspect of the war, potentially creating and coordinating future events, and improving the impression of those who do pursue this mostly neglected portion of the American Civil War Reenacting/Living Historian community.
To further explain how I could contribute to such a Forum:
My current active duty billet is History Instructor at the United States Naval Academy on a three year rotational tour. I only have 2 years and 9 months left here at Annapolis. That being said, I currently have unlimited access to the USNA Special Collections and Archives, special access as requested by me to the USNA Museum Collection, and various other accesses to important correspondence of the Secretaries of the Navy and Secretary of War through the end of the Civil War period. Once I transfer back to the operational fleet, I will not have the access I currently have. In short, I can share research that is not common to most.
I strongly believe that myself and others can share research in a newly created Navy and Marine Corps Forum.
Just my thoughts as an AC member since 2003 (profile shows 2006 due to having to re-register in 2006 after the Great AC Server Crash of 2005).
With the Kindest of All Regards,
Matt Semple
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