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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 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!

• A history of coffee during the Civil War shows up on an interesting blog

• 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

Related posts:

1. Odds & Ends: April 10, 2008
2. Odds & Ends: April 12, 2008
3. Odds & Ends: April 15, 2008
4. Odds & Ends: April 26, 2008
5. Odds & Ends: April 19, 2008