Month: October 2008
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A TREAT for Halloween
UPDATE: Brock Robert Schulte was born on November 1, 2008 at 11:43 am. He weighed in at 5 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19 inches long. Here’s the best pic I could get on short notice… Rarely do I post personal things on this blog, especially given that it is a group blog. I’ll make […]
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Civil War Talk Radio: October 31, 2008
Air Date: 103108 Subject: President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldier’s Home Web Site: http://www.lincolncottage.org/ Book: Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home Guest: Matt Pinsker Summary: Professor Matthew Pinkser of Dickinson College, author of Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home, discusses Lincoln’s Presidential retreat. Brett’s Summary: Gerry mentioned at the top of […]
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Clausewitz, his influence…and that of other pundits.
Dmitri Rotov is into a discussion of the influence of Clausewitz’s work On War on our Civil War. I’m not really a student of strategy, but thought I’d add that although Dmitri has found some earlier magazine excerpts, the first full publication of an English translation seems to have been that of Col. J. J. […]
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Book Review-Nonfiction
Gary Gallagher- Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War; Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008; 274 pp, index, endnotes, illustrations; ISBN-978-08078-3206-6; $ Gary Gallagher’s latest book treads into some new territory for the prolific University of Virginia John L. Nau Professor of […]
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Short Takes
Came across a nice web site about James S. Robbins’ Last In Their Class: Custer, Pickett, and the Goats of West Point. Some great stories there—did you know Jeff Davis was court-martialed and convicted as a cadet (sentence remitted due to prior good behavior)? Or that Henry Heth and Ambrose Burnside were roommates? Burnside was […]
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Short Takes
Confederate motorcycles? You bet! I have a mental image of Stonewall Jackson burning rubber… More here…investors include Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds, and Bruce Springsteen. I want one. Recommended reading. Captain Francis Donaldson served in both the 71st and 118th Pennsylvania (the famous Corn Exchange regiment), and wrote quite a lot about it. Donaldson […]