This Odds & Ends is going out while I’m in LA on a business trip. I’ll probably either be packing up our booth from the Trade Show or on a plane home when you read this. Good thing you get to do some Civil War related reading while I’m away! 
- Old Picture of the Day presents a picture of a military telegraph wagon during the Siege of Petersburg.
- I don’t know how long this will last due to copyright concerns, but here’s a YouTube link showing the Battle of the Crater as presented in the movie Cold Mountain.
- Later On posts a blog entry about The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves.
- A Battle of Gettysburg memorial shoot will occur in Hawaii of all places on July 6, 2008. I never thought my interest in the Civil War might one day give me an excuse to go to Hawaii! Now we’re talking…
- This Eclectic Life explores the actions of “The Angel of Marye’s Heights”, Richard Rowland Kirkland, who was later killed at the Battle of Chickamauga.
- Scott Mingus posts on wargaming the Battle of Chancellorsville using miniatures
- The Osprey Graphic History series is “[a]imed at a young audience with the intention of fostering an interest in history.” One of the volumes, Gamble For Victory: Battle of Gettysburg, is discussed on a forum.
- Civil War Librarian takes a look at Gary Gallagher’s new book Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten. Gallagher recently appeared on Civil War Talk Radio.
- Goodbye UK, Hello World! relates the tale of Clear Island, the southernmost point in Ireland and the first place in Europe to know that the American Civil War had started.
- Read former slave Jourdon Anderson’s letter to his former master, Colonel Henry Anderson.
- Thaddeus Lowe, a balloonist for the Army of the Potomac, had at least one descendant who shared his love of the air.
- Wrote on the Ground, a gaming blog, reviews Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States
- Cavman Considers, well…considers Gods and Generals
- Delorean car owners visit Gettysburg, but not in 1863…
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Hey Brett, thanks for the linkback. I doubt I’ll come across anything else related to the Civil War in my travels until I hit the US