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• An interview of Eric Wittenberg, J.D. Petruzzi, and Mike Nugent, authors of the upcoming title One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 (hat tip to Dimitri for this one)

• It looks like the Manassas National Battlefield Park has started its own landscape restoration plan

• Check out Andrew Duppstadt’s review of Gary Joiner’s new book Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy in the latest edition of Civil War Book Review

• J.D. Petruzzi has an article on Buford’s cavalry division in the Gettysburg Campaign coming out in the latest issue of America’s Civil War magazine

• Doubtful Muse has a thoughtful post on her Confederate background and how it affects her reading of Civil War novels

• The McClellan surname and its links to homeopathy plus Stonewall Jackson’s links to the same

• A High School lesson plan for the start of the Civil War

• Audi, Vide, Tace explores the connections between the Civil War and the rise of American Freemasonry

• The National Book Critics’ Circle has announced its list of Good Reads for 2008, and Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering is among the choices

• Mother’s Day, created by Julia Ward Howe, originated as a way to find peace in the Post-Civil War United States

• Doug’s Darkworld blogs about Sam White’s death, also discussed by Fred Ray here at TOCWOC

• Several discussions of Joseph Glatthaar’s new book General Lee’s Army have popped up (hat tip to Harry for Dimitri’s post, which I missed somehow)

• Michael Colbruno’s Mountain View Cemetery Bio Tour Blog (phew, say that fast three times!) has a short biography of naval hero David Stockton McDougal, whose exploits in the Pacific were overshadowed by a larger event occurring on the American mainland in 1863…

• The latest in the ongoing Electric Map debate at Gettysburg

• Musician Moby’s New York residence was once a part of a mental hospital during the Civil War

• Students “reenact” the Civil War; does this really teach them anything?

• Gamespot offers a Gettysburg Map for the computer game Age of Empires III
  

• A Boat Against the Current looks at Jackson’s flank attack at Chancellorsville and the F. Scott Fitzgerals short story “Night at Chancellorsville”

Related posts:

1. Civil War Odds & Ends: July 26, 2008
2. Odds & Ends: May 17, 2008
3. Odds & Ends: May 3, 2008
4. Odds & Ends: April 17, 2008
5. Odds & Ends: May 22, 2008