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 see Civil War content
- An after action report from the board game A House Divided discusses some highly ahistorical results, but mentions that the advanced supply rules were not in effect
- A look at some Massachusetts “minutemen” of a later war
- How profitable was slavery to those in power?
- The American Civil War as a homeschooling topic
- Board Game Geek has a great introduction to Battle Cry of Freedom, a Civil War card-driven wargame
- How interesting was Confederate Agent Thomas Henry Hines? Interesting enough to be featured at damninteresting.com!
- Why does a statue of Abraham Lincoln stand in Edinburgh, Scotland?
- John Hoptak’s effort to get Nagle’s sword restored makes the Pottsville (PA) Republican Herald.
- Don at Crossed Sabers is also looking to place his Civil War library online
- Scott Mingus covers the 1st Annual Gettysburg Toy Soldier Show
- Is the South winning a modern day “Cold Civil War”? Judge for yourself.
- Preservation efforts on George Pickett’s former home in Bellingham, Washington
- Check out Skywatch Friday in Selma, Alabama
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