Search This Site
The search engine gives you hyperlinks to the page your "hit" is found on. Since many of our pages are quite voluminous you may want to use the "find in page" option found under "Edit "on Netscape Browsers or the "Find(this page)" option under "Edit" on the Microsoft Explorer browser.
For instance if you typed in Barksdale you would get 44 hits-clicking on the second "hit" "The battle of Gettysburg-July 2" takes you to vjuly2.html. Next you go to edit, click on find in page and fill in Barksdale-that will take you directly to the reference to Barksdale on the page.
It is also possible to use the Boolean search expressions and , or, not, * and ()
For instance a search for Lee will give you all the pages that have Lee on them
A search for LEE and Longstreet will give you every page where both Lee and Longstreet names are listed.
A search for Lee or Longstreet will give you every page that has either Lee or Longstreet on it.
A search for Lee not Longstreet will give pages that contain Lee but not Longstreet
A search for Lee and (Stuart or Longstreet) would give you pages that have Lee and either Longstreet or Stuart in them.
A search for *GET would give you pages that contained words that started with GET