Odds & Ends: May 22, 2008

No real introduction this time. Let’s get right to a look at Civil War news and info from blogs, other web sites, and newspapers.

• David Woodbury has an interview up with Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones. In addition to appearing on DW’s Civil War blog, Dr. Bynum was also a guest on Gerald Prokopowicz’s Civil War Talk Radio program on March 21, 2008.

• Paul Taylor at With Sword and Pen discusses the importance of buying first editions of books to avoid depreciation of your collection

• Rene Tyree at wig-wags weighs in on Edward Hagerman’s book and “Lee’s Failure to Entrench” during the Civil War

• More on Gettysburg’s view restoration at Civil War Librarian

• Another question from Yahoo Answers, this one asking “How far [sic] was the American Civil War caused by slavery?”

• The History News Network reviews Walter McDougall’s Throes of Democracy
  

• A request for Civil War reenactors for an upcoming movie to be shot in September 2008

• A great post from John David Hoptak on Henry Pleasants, the 48th Pennsylvania, the digging of the Petersburg Mine, and historical fiction

• The Richmond Times-Dispatch asks “What legacies are we commemorating?” in regards to Virginia’s commemoration (remember, it’s not a “celebration”) of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

• It wouldn’t be Odds & Ends without the obligatory This Republic of Suffering review, would it? How come none of these reviews are coming from the Civil War blogs?

• readingeagle.com has an article up on Civil War Reenacting

• An article on Tennessee’s commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial

• Desktop Genealogist Unplugged blogs about his family’s Civil War connections
  

• Visiting historic Vicksburg from the Parkersburg (WV) News and Sentinel

• Students from the USMC Expeditionary Warfare School visited Gettysburg recently

• Rob Wick’s recommendation against a Lincoln assassination book you should avoid

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