Month: January 2006
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New Side Menu: ACW Forums
I realized today that I have omitted one very important group from my side menus: Civil War forums and discussion groups. I added a bunch of links today, and I encourage everyone to check these out as there are a lot of people out there ready and willing to discuss the Civil War with you. […]
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eBay Group American Civil War Books
For those of you who are eBayers, I thought you might be interested in joining the American Civil War Books eBay group I started today. The group will focus on discussions of both good and bad Civil War books, games, and other items that are bought and sold on eBay. Everyone is welcome to join. […]
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Blue & Gray, Holiday 2005
Blue & Gray magazine is one of the top Civil War magazines available. The main articles usually contain endnotes, and the maps are very detailed and numerous. Blue & Gray has an “article and tour guide format”. That is, the magazine contains a main article on a battle or campaign, and later in the issue […]
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Siege of Petersburg Project Update
I’ve now updated the Confederate OOB of my Petersburg Campaign Project through the month of November 1864 (after the Sixth Offensive of October), and I’ve completed all units found in Sifakis’ Compendium of the Confederate Armies. The OOBs I’m starting with are from F. Ray Sibley, Jr.’s reference work The Confederate Order of Battle: The […]
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Civil War Talk Radio: January 13, 2006
Air Date: 011306 Subject: Michael Vorenberg: How Slavery Ended Book: Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) Guest: Michael Vorenberg Summary: Dr. Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, analyzes the […]
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Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Being a history major and frequenting various history related websites, one cannot help but be inundated by narrative based pop histories, usually to my disdain. In fact, this book, controversial in the blogosphere if not on Amazon, only arrived at my house because I proved too lazy to preempt the Book Club from sending it […]
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Taken At The Flood, Part 3
Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Chapter 2 “More fully persuaded”, Lee Crosses the Potomac, September 4-6, 1862 Chapter 2 covers Lee’s decision to enter Maryland, and the plan he put into place to make that happen. “The March to Leesburg, […]