Recent Updates

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January 15, 2007

Added a review of Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth by Stephen D. Engle

January 4, 2007

Added a review of Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics by Charles P. Roland

January 3, 2007

Added a review of That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West by Mark W. Johnson

December 29, 2006

Added a review of The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of Old Men and Young Boys June 9, 1864 by William G. Robertson

December 26, 2006

Added a review of Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas edited by Mark K. Christ

December 16, 2006

Added a review of Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign by Scott Mingus

December 9, 2006

Added a review of Peculiar Honor: A History of the 28th Texas Cavalry 1862-1865 by M. Jane Johansson

September 11, 2006

Added a short review of Paul Branch, Jr.'s The Siege of Fort Macon

September 6, 2006

Added a page for Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg
Added a page for Hurricane of Fire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles M. Robinson III
Added a page for Perryville Battle for Kentucky by Ken Hafendorfer
Added a page for The Battle of Scary Creek: Military Operations in the Kanawha Valley April-July 1861 by Terry Lowry
Added a page for September Blood: The Battle of Carnifex Ferry by Terry Lowry
Added a page for The Battle of Rich Mountain (West Virginia) by Jack Zinn

September 5, 2006

Added a short review of Eric J. Wittenberg's Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions
Added a short review of Curt Johnson's and Richard Anderson's Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam

July 16, 2006

Added a short review of Richard M. McMurry's Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History
Created a new Biographies section
Added a short review of David M. Jordan's "Happiness is Not My Companion": The Life of G. K. Warren

June 26, 2006

Converted the Prairie Grove section to the new format
Added a short review of Michael Banasik's Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862
Added a short review of Fred L. Ray's Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Amry of Northern Virginia

June 22, 2006

Added Marion Armstrong's Disaster in the West Woods to the Antietam section

June 20, 2006

Converted the South Carolina Campaigns and Second Bull Run (Manassas) sections to the new format

June 18, 2006

Converted the North Carolina 1865 section to the new format and added 2 books to it

June 17, 2006

Converted the Antietam and Atlanta sections to the new format and added books to each

June 16, 2006

Created a new Unit Histories section
Added 24 books to the Unit Histories section

April 23, 2006

Added a "Review In Brief" for Jackson's Valley Campaign: The First Battle of Winchester: May 25, 1862

January 18, 2006

Added a "Review In Brief" for Jackson's Valley Campaign: The Battle of McDowell: March 11-May 18, 1862

January 10, 2006

Added a "Review In Brief" for Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863

January 2, 2006

Added a "Review In Brief" for Back Door To Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864

December 13, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
Added a short review of Thirty-Six Hours Before Appomattox, April 6 And 7, 1865

December 8, 2005

Added a short review of Blue & Gray's History and Tour Guide of Five Forks, Hatcher's Run, and Namozine Church

December 4, 2005

Added a short review of Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865

November 18, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly

November 11, 2005

Added a short review of Island No. 10: The Struggle for the Mississippi Valley

November 7, 2005

Added a short review of Grant's Canal: The Union's Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg

November 3, 2005

Added a short review of The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863

October 31, 2005

Added a short review of To The Sea: A Hisory and Tour Guide of Sherman's March

October 30, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864

October 18, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign \

September 29, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Paul Taylor's book He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) September 1, 1862

September 19, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Patrick Brennan's book Secessionville: Assault on Charleston

August 26, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Tim Smith's book Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg

August 13, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Charles Dufour's book The Night The War Was Lost

July 28, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Russel Beatie's book The Army of the Potomac (Volume 2): McClellan Takes Command, September 1861-February 1862

February 28, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of Byron Farwell's book Ball's Bluff: A Small Battle and Its Long Shadow

February 24, 2005

Added a lengthy review and summary of David Evans' book Sherman's Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations in the Atlanta Campaign
Added 3 books to ACW East, 5 books to ACW West, and 7 Books to ACW General.

November 14, 2004

Added a lengthy review and summary of John Cannan's book The Crater: Burnside’s Assault On The Confederate Trenches June 30, 1864

October 31, 2004

I redesigned the main page to look more like My DVD Collection and My Book Collection.