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Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 45, Number 10 (January 2007)
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Mail Call…..4
Turning Points: Arming the Confederacy…..9
Josiah Gorgas
by Jeffry D. Wert
This month Turning Points looks at Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Ornance [...]
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The Women Will Howl: The Union Capture of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia, and the Forced Relocation of Mill Workers by Mary Deborah Petite ISBN 978-0-7864-3168-7 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008 187 Pages – Hardcover (7 x 10) – $45 Photos & Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Information wanted: My widowed daughter, Eliza Ray, was [...]
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Gone With the Wind and UFOs? Check it out.
XDA has a list of the top 45 war movies ever made. I have no idea how these were chosen, but only three American Civil War movies made the list:
Glory
Ride With the Devil
The General
Harry Smeltzer has a nice start to a [...]
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The following is a review and summary of David Evans
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Operational scale Civil War wargames for the PC are about as rare as you can get. CRISIS, a game system designed by Dutch Owen in the 1990s, is probably as close as you can get. The URL is:
http://museum.sysun.com/crisis/index.html
Although the game appears primitive at first glance (note the early 1990s graphics!) and the interface takes [...]
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The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864
by Philip L. Secrist
PART II – Resaca Rediscovered
Part II of the book discusses the post-battle state of the Resaca Battlefield. Secrist, a noted relic hunter, describes the positives and negatives which have arisen as a result of that practice, and he also dedicates a chapter to the construction [...]
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The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864
by Philip L. Secrist
Chapter 1 – The Plan of Battle
1. Secrist briefly discusses Sherman’s plan of action prior to the Atlanta Campaign. Sherman was looking to win a decisive engagement somewhere south of Rome, Georgia. Johnston’s Army would then disintegrate, leaving the way open to Atlanta with [...]
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