Month: November 2005

  • Gary Grigsby’s World at War: Civil War Style

    Gary Grigsby, one of the men most responsible for the excellent Steel Panthers series (I own a copy of every game) and lead developer of World at War, has been hard at work on an American Civil War version of World at War. In his developer’s journal at 2by3Games, Grigsby includes this appetizing little tidbit […]

  • Confederate Tide Rising, Part 2

    This first chapter discusses Confederate strategy from the beginning of the war until Lee ascended to the command of the Army of Northern Virginia after the wounding of Joseph Johnston.

  • Veteran’s Day, World War I and Civil War Historiography

    At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, formal hostilities during the Great War came to an end with the German signing of an armistice. Though the United States had not participated in the war to the same extent as European nations, Armistice Day immediately became a day of […]

  • Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862, Part 1

    Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh I recently purchased the three books of Joseph Harsh’s trilogy dealing with Confederate strategy during from the beginning of the war to the end of the Maryland Campaign in September 1862. The first of the trilogy, Confederate Tide […]

  • Civil War Memory: A New Blog

    Kevin Levin, a High School history teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, has created a new Civil War blog. I always find it best to let a person speak on their own behalf. With that in mind, here’s Kevin’s introduction to his blog: Thanks for stopping by. I have been quite impressed with the Civil War blogs […]

  • Review in Brief: Island No. Ten: Struggle For The Mississippi Valley

    Island No. 10: Struggle For The Mississippi Valley by Larry J. Daniel and Lynn N. Bock 202 pp., 8 maps, 3 tables In this review in brief, I’ll be taking a look at Larry J. Daniel’s and Lyyn N. Bock’s Island No. 10: Struggle For The Mississippi Valley. The book weighs in at 202 pages, […]

  • Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly, Part 8

    Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly by David A. Welker After quite a lengthy period of time, longer than I had planned, I’ve finally come to the end of the road with Welker’s Chantilly book. In this final installment, I’ll cover the retreat of the Union Army to Washington, D.C., Welker’s conclusions in […]