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Air Date: 022406
Subject: Edwin C. Bearss: Chief of the Battlefield
Book: Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Guests: Edwin C. Bearss
Summary: The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.
Brett’s Summary: This was a fascinating interview.  Gerry talks to Ed Bearss, probably the most famous “name” associated with the Civil War [...]

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Books On The Vicksburg Campaign
Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. Timothy B. Smith. New York, NY: Savas Beatie LLC (2004). 502 pp. 41 maps.
This is a review and summary of Timothy B. Smith’s Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. Dr. Smith sets out to write the first detailed history of the most important battle [...]

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Air Date: 021706
Subject: Fritz Klein IS Abraham Lincoln
Guests: Abraham Lincoln (Fritz Klein)
Summary: Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard “Fritz” Klein.
Brett’s Summary:

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Books On Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
edited by Gary Gallagher
I’m going to try something different for this book. Since it is a collection of essays, I plan on reviewing each essay on its own merits. I will do this for all future Gallagher books, and I hope to go back and [...]

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Books On Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign (and the Romney Campaign)
This is a review and summary of Thomas M. Rankin’s H.E. Howard “Virginia Civil War Battles and Leaders Series” book entitled Stonewall Jackson’s Romney Campaign: January 1 - February 20, 1862. The book traces Jackson’s unsuccessful campaign to take back some of the northwestern Virginia [...]

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Books On Ball’s Bluff
The following is a review and short summary of Ball’s Bluff: A Small Battle and Its Long Shadow (EPM, 1990), by Byron Farwell. Farwell’s book covers the October 21, 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff, a small fight between the Confederate Brigade of Nathan “Shanks” Evans and the Union forces under Senator [...]

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HPS Simulations announced the release of patches for three games in the Civil War Battles series on February 1, 2006. Campaign Corinth (v1.05), Campaign Ozark (v1.04), and Campaign Peninsula (v1.02) were all updated.
Changes for Campaign Corinth 1.06
- Added optional Night Movement Fatigue rule.
Changes for Campaign Ozark 1.05
- Added optional Night Movement Fatigue rule.
Changes for [...]

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Air Date: 020306
Subject: Mark L. Bradley: The War After Appomattox
Book: This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place
Guests: Mark L. Bradley
Summary: Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.
Brett’s Summary: Gerry discusses Joe Johnston’s surrender to William T. Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham, [...]

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I received a nice surprise in my inbox yesterday, especially considering that I’ve been unable to find time for any reading, much less any blogging, lately. It seems that Jon Johnson, an amateur Civil War enthusiast like myself, decided to create a regimental level OOB for the Battle of Shiloh. Jon was gracious [...]

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