Month: March 2006

  • Civil War Talk Radio: March 24, 2006

    Air Date: 032406 Subject: James P. Delgado: The Civil War Underwater Guest: James P. Delgado Summary: Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact. Civil War Talk Radio airs most Fridays at 12 PM Pacific on World Talk […]

  • Bruce Levine – Confederate Emancipation

    For the past two years I’ve been more interested in the historiography of the Civil War than the actual events itself. The historiography through memory writing school is relatively new to the Civil War history scene, led by historians like David Blight, but it’s making steady progress. While most works (including this site) still focus […]

  • Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 2

    Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia by Fred L. Ray ISBN-10 0-9649585-5-4 ISBN-13 978-0-9649585-5-5 6 x 9 inch hardback – 450 Pages 43 Maps, 59 Illustrations Footnoted / Indexed / Complete Bibliography Publication date: Winter 2005 Price $34.95 Foreword by Robert K. Krick Robert Krick, probably the […]

  • Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 1

    Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia by Fred L. Ray ISBN-10 0-9649585-5-4 ISBN-13 978-0-9649585-5-5 6 x 9 inch hardback – 450 Pages 43 Maps, 59 Illustrations Footnoted / Indexed / Complete Bibliography Publication date: Winter 2005 Price $34.95 I have always been a fan of the Petersburg […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: March 3, 2006

    Air Date: 030306 Subject: James A. Morgan III: What Really Happened at Ball’s Bluff? Book: A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry Guest: James A. Morgan III . Summary: James A. Morgan III, author of A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry . […]

  • Review: The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock

    Books On The Fredericksburg Campaign The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) ed. by Gary Gallagher This is the second review of Gallagher’s essay books where I will review each article individually, thereby giving readers a chance to judge for themselves whether or not enough articles interest them to […]