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for Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin
by Eric A. Jacobson and Richard A. Rupp

Softback
$24.95
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519 pages!
ISBN
0-9717444-6-7

Hardback
$44.95
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519 pages!
ISBN
0-9717444-4-0

Last week I only managed to take a look at the Confederate movement from Columbia to Spring Hill and the Federal efforts to decipher and resist against [...]

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July 31, 1864
Skirmish at Hancock, MD, as Brig. Gen. William W. Averell, CSA, which burned Chambersburg, PA.

Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Order the book HERE.
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It always amazes me what you can find on the web, although you do have to maintain a skeptical attitude about it.
An Army Quartermaster site has a nice article (written in 1961) about the adoption of corps badges in the Union army, and how they evolved into the shoulder patches of today.
A mistake in identification [...]

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In the past month and a half, I’ve marked the anniversaries of important battles during the Petersburg Campaign (and I apologize for missing the Wilson-Kautz Raid and First Deep Bottom). When Petersburg does manage to get mentioned, arguably the most “popular” battle (you have to include Five Forks as well) is the Crater, fought on [...]

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July 30, 1864
William Mahone, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.

Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, C.S.A., is appointed Brig. Gen.

David Addison Weisinger, C.S.A., is appointed Brig. Gen.

Skirmish at Monocacy Junction, MD.
The Confederate Burning of Chambersburg, PA, is ordered by Brig. Gen. John McCausland, CSA, Cavalry, after the town could not or would not raise the $500,000 [...]

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Getting back off the road, just in time for a historical foray…
Much of the western military history canon revolves around battles fought in Europe (and specifically, the western part of that continent), yet many really decisive events happened elsewhere that greatly affected how history played out in the western peninsula of Asia.
One mega-event was the [...]

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November 10-12, 2006 will be one of the East Coast’s largest wargaming conventions - Fall In! Always entertaining with spectacular layouts and an excellent venue, Fall In! remains one of the cornerstone conventions of the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society.
It is held in scenic and historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, immediately south of the Gettysburg National Military Park [...]

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Critical Hit, a board wargaming company, is scheduled to release a new Gettysburg title based on their Advanced Tobruk System (ATS) rules. The new game, ATS Gettysburg, looks like it will be available on September 1, 2006. Information on the game is below (thanks to Richard Tee for pointing this game out to me):
A brand [...]

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July 29, 1864
Skirmish at Hagerstown, MD, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, orders Confederate cavalry under Brig. Gen. John McCausland to move back into Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Skirmish at Clear Spring, MD.
Skirmish at Mercersburg, PA, with Brig. Gen. John McCausland, CSA.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. [...]

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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Reprint edition (January 1985)
Language: English
ISBN: 0803260717

Brett’s Horror Book Collection

This is a recurring weekly series covering around ten short stories of Ambrose Bierce, Civil War veteran and well known satirist.
Part I: The World of Horror (cont.)
“Moxon’s Master”
By Ambrose Bierce
Rating: 6/10
Quote: “Consciousness is the [...]

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