"For several days Confederates skirmished with Pope's men, convincing the western general that he had time for more troops to arrive before launching his offensive."
It's international book week. The rules are: grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your status.
This is from Facebook but sounds at least a little fun IMHO. And can work just about everywhere. Awright, I have another book on FB , but that was in Swedish and this was just as close. And I changed from national to INTERnational.