Month: April 2010

  • Promising New Civil War Computer Game from the Makers of Forge of Freedom

    I was very interested to learn over the weekend that Gil Renberg and his team at Western Civilization Software, the makers of the excellent Civil War grand strategy game Forge of Freedom, will be creating a new regimental level Civil War tactical game based in part on a greatly enhanced tactical engine from that game.  […]

  • Review: So You Think You Know Gettysburg? The Stories behind the Monuments and the Men Who Fought One of America’s Most Epic Battles

    So You Think You Know Gettysburg? The Stories behind the Monuments and the Men Who Fought One of America’s Most Epic Battles by James & Suzanne Gindlesperger Product Details Paperback: 188 pages Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher (May 1, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0895873745 ISBN-13: 978-0895873743 This is not a book that fits into one […]

  • We Remember

    By Mark Acres Wars fade from memory, but they fade very, very slowly. “For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns […]

  • Short Takes

    Henry Louis Gates, perhaps better known for his role in the “beer summit,” pens an excellent article on the slavery “blame game.” While we are all familiar with the role played by the United States and the European colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain, there is very little discussion of the role […]

  • Review: West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace

    West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh (author) Product Details Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (October 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807832782 ISBN-13: 978-0807832783 Building a million plus man army is a gut wrenching task.  In 1861, two nations set out […]

  • Two New Maps on the Crater and Jerusalem Plank Road by Petersburg Campaign Author John E. Horn

    Editor’s Note: This post is also crossposted at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. One of the goals of my Petersburg Campaign project at Beyond the Crater is to go beyond the public domain maps freely available to everyone when and where I can. One way to do this is to contact authors and […]

  • Stonewall Jackson’s Way II and None But Heroes: Two New Civil War Boardgames from MMP

    I recently noticed a link to an interview of legendary Civil War board game designer Dean Essig at Boardgame news.  Essig was talking about his new regimental level Civil War game on the Battle of Antietam entitled None But Heroes. This excerpt from the interview provides a look at what Essig is trying to accomplish […]