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This article on “Southernism” by Michael Hirsch in Newsweak is getting a good bit of buzz on the web. He thinks the South won after all.

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Christian B. Keller. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press; First Edition (May 15, 2007). 244 pp., 4 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0823226504 $65.00 (Hardcover w/DJ).
How serious a blow was the Battle of Chancellorsville to the collective German-American psyche? Christian B. Keller attempts to answer precisely [...]

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For your reading pleasure, I present you with my latest gathered “Odds & Ends” of interest to Civil War buffs:

Would it have been possible to win the Civil War by never launching an attack?

Some surgical statistics of the American Civil War on an RPG forum, a place I never thought I’d [...]

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(Hat tip to Eddy Sterckx.)  In a move that will come as no surprise to regular readers of TOCWOC, Matrix Games late on Monday announced the imminent arrival of Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States. GGWBtS is a computer wargame about the American Civil War set at the grand strategic level. It is [...]

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A nice article on Civil War flag restoration in the Montgomery Advertiser.

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Those that can’t write, review!
May 2008
James Durney
Book News
First, let me correct something from the April column, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam is not close to a thousand pages as reported but just under 600 pages. However, it is an oversized book [...]

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Multiman Publishing began shipping their new RSS series game South Mountain to those who pre-ordered on Saturday. I’m eagerly looking forward to my copy. As always happens with MMP during the pre-order shipment process, you will not be able to find the game online for a brief period of time. However, when [...]

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My apologies to Jim Durney.  I somehow posted a much-shortened version of his monthly book notes on Friday.  Look for the revised and full version to appear bright and early on Monday morning.  And go check out his reviews at Amazon.com!

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If you’re a regular reader, you’re well aware of my Odds & Ends column.  For anyone new stumbling on this post after a search, let me briefly explain.  Odds & Ends is a semi-regular series which attempts to pull together some of the recent interesting happenings and news about the Civil War.  You might see [...]

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I always enjoy window shopping on the Damon Mills web site, wishing I had the money to buy some of the old guns there. Just sold (for a mere $18,500) is a very fine sporting Whitworth with case and full kit. The decorative work on this rifle is impressive, and is obviously something that only [...]

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