TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

Air Date: 012706
Subject: Wide Awake Films: If Brady Had Video
Web site: http://www.wideawakefilms.com & http://www.civilwargoods.com/
Guests: Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker

Summary: Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.

Brett’s Summary: Shane and Ed discuss how they film Civil [...]

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I was pretty excited today after I won the first 12 issues of Blue & Gray on eBay. It cost me a pretty penny, but it was worth it. I’m now within two issues of a complete run. If anyone knows where I can get the following two issues, please contact me. [...]

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Mad Minute Games is ramping up testing for Take Command: Second Manassas over the next few weeks. As a result, I will not have as much time to dedicate to reading many books or playing many ACW games. I hope to post at least once a week during this time, but there will [...]

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Air Date: 012006
Subject: Sex in the Civil War
Book: The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War & Tarnished Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels
Guest: Thomas P. Lowry

Summary: Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in [...]

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Over at the Mad Minute Games forums, there have been several screenshots of Take Command: Second Manassas (TC2M for short) compared to pictures of the modern battlefield of Second Manassas. I responded to a request to show a similar comparison of the Chantilly Battlefield (not available in the beta release). The details of [...]

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Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865
by Warren Wilkinson
665 pp., 11 maps
I want to preface this review with the admission that I have read very few unit histories to this point. While I feel very comfortable reviewing campaign and [...]

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Books on Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign
Jackson’s Valley Campaign: The Battle of McDowell: March 11-May 18, 1862
by Richard L. Armstrong
122 pp., 9 maps
The entries in the Virginia Battles & Leaders Series run the gamut from good to pretty bad. This particular entry was not one of the best, but it did have some redeeming qualities. [...]

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I realized today that I have omitted one very important group from my side menus: Civil War forums and discussion groups. I added a bunch of links today, and I encourage everyone to check these out as there are a lot of people out there ready and willing to discuss the Civil War with [...]

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For those of you who are eBayers, I thought you might be interested in joining the American Civil War Books eBay group I started today. The group will focus on discussions of both good and bad Civil War books, games, and other items that are bought and sold on eBay. Everyone is welcome [...]

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Blue &
Gray magazine is one of the top Civil War magazines available. The main
articles usually contain endnotes, and the maps are very detailed and numerous.
Blue & Gray has an "article and tour guide format". That is,
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