Month: September 2005
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Civil War Talk Radio: September 30, 2005
Air Date: 093005 Subject: Karen B. Winnick: History in 32 Pages Book: Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers & Cassie’s Sweet Berry Pie Guest: Karen B. Winnick Summary: Karen Winnick explains the challenges of communicating important stories of the past in the format of the children’s picture book, as she has done in Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers and Cassie’s […]
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Not Much Posting This Weekend…
…I’m in a wedding and a golf tournament. No rest for the weary. I’ll try to get some stuff up if I get a chance.
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Harper’s Ferry Arsenal Update
The Harper’s Ferry Arsenal has been updated. Mod-maker extraordinaire Tim has created an Officer Sprites mod for use with Bull Run: Take Command 1861. These officers take the place of your flag bearer in the game. Check out Brett’s list of the Top 10 Civil War Blogs! Check out Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign […]
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“Back-to-Back Books”: Chantilly
Now that I’ve finished He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning, I’ll be moving on to David Welker’s Tempest at Ox Hill. Unlike Taylor’s book, I have read Welker’s at a prior date. It has been awhile, but I know for a fact that it compares favorably to Taylor’s book. I’ve got a busy few weeks […]
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Review: He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning by Paul Taylor
http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/2ndBullRun.htm He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) September 1, 1862. Paul Taylor. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books (2003). 179 pp. 8 maps. This is a review and summary of Paul Taylor’s He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) September 1, 1862. In this book, […]
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America’s Civil War, November 2005
The November 2005 issue is the first issue of America’s Civil War that I’ll be reviewing for this blog. ACW is of a little lower quality than North & South and Blue & Gray. It is virtually identical to Civil War Times Illustrated at this point, because both magazines are published by Primedia. There are […]
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He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning, Part 4
He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly), September 1, 1862 by Paul Taylor I managed to finish the book last evening, so this is the final part of my daily blog entries on He Hath Loosed The Fateful Lightning. I hope to have a review up within the next day […]