Odds & Ends: June 28, 2008

Here’s another Odds & Ends for a Saturday.  Regular posts will resume on Monday.

• Help “badfish20″ pick out a Civil War wargame that fits his needs.

• The London Times explains “[w]hy Times reports in 1863 were a shade unreliable”.

• Check out High Water Mark, a FREE set of Civil War wargames rules.

• Eric Jacobson, author of For Cause and For Country, talks about Cleburne’s controverisal proposal to arm slaves in 1864

• It’s pretty easy to use John Sedgwick’s quote shortly before his death as an example of irony!

• Scott Mingus asks the question, “Do you game with Native American AWC troops?“

• A review of This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James McPherson appears on War and Game.

• A JLC web site was recently launched by Bowdoin College.  If you don’t know who JLC is, count your blessings.  You have not been severely overexposed to Gettysburg like many of us.

• A review of AGEod’s American Civil War

• General Bartlett YouTube film