Hello!
He wrote an extremely interesting premise, or even a full explanation
of the events surrounding Mosby and his private raiding force. It was
titled Rebel Raider. In closing he described being taken by his
grandfather at age Seven to meet Mosby at his home in a suburb of DC.
Mosby was successful at what he did, because he did the darned near
impossible. But that's my take. I found my copy on Gutenberg, but that
site is having issues tonight. Sherman's Mr. Peabody's Wayback machine
has copies.
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 8:52 PM Terrence Fugate <xxxxxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd never read Murder In The Gunroom until Friday. So please bare with me if this is all old news.
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> OK I have a cousin who is demented gun collector. There isn't an ancient firearm she doesn't want to add to her collection.
> I asked her to read Murder In The Gunroom to give me her opinion of Piper's knowledge.
>
> It tales a lot to impress Amy Sue but Piper managed. Piper mentions firearms that are all but mythical. Amy Sue was practically drooling over the guns mentioned.
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> I can tell the difference from a 1911 Colt ACP and a .38 revolver and that's about it. I just don't get it, not that interested in old computers either. It takes all kinds.
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> Too bad I couldn't seduce Amy Sue into loving SF.
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> This line from Murder In The Gunroom is telling...
> Rand drove slowly through Rosemont, the next day, refreshing his memory of the place. It was one of the many commuters' villages strung out for fifty miles along the railroad lines radiating from New Belfast, and depended for its support upon a population scattered over a five-mile radius at estates and country homes.
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> I'm 74 and railroads were novelties when I was a child. I've ridden a train twice, once in the 3rd grade for a field trip to the state capital and once as 'security' for a trip from Lexington to Danville. [Security was basically keeping a bunch of kids from falling out the windows while hanging out.]
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> Clearly railroads were the 'really big thing' during Piper's lifetime. I can't help but wonder if the demise of King Railroad didn't contribute to his depression.
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> I worked in analog TV for 30ish years, I retired due to an on-the-job injury in 2008, right as digital TV was starting to come on line. Many of my contemporaries couldn't adapt and are extremely bitter and depressed. Maybe I got out in time to avoid seeing everything I'd spent a lifetime learning become obsolete and the messy details of my injury sort of soured me on TV. [not that it took that much]
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> Looking at the few retired analog TV engineers and technicians I still interact with, I have to say it causes a deep and lasting change when your industry goes away.
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> This line reminded me...
> Rand shook his head. "I have a special fondness for Confederate arms, myself. One of my grandfathers was in Mosby's Rangers, and the other was with Barksdale, to say nothing of about a dozen great-uncles and so on."
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> What is Piper's fascination with Mosby?
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> Sure he was effective at driving the Damn Yankees to drink but, why would anyone become fixated on one failed soldier.
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> I say failed because the south lost.
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> Lexington was the home of John Hunt Morgan (look him up, fairly impressive military career.) And, while Lexington was still an antebellum town in many ways up to ~1980, none of my friends worshiped General Hunt and reenacted the Battle of Perryville ever autumn. [look it up] Maybe I just don't get hero worship.
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