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Month: September 2007

  • The Sound of the Guns

    I am heading out to Winchester tomorrow morning to begin preparations for the North-South Skirmish Association’s 116th National Skirmish, which will be held October 3-7. For those of you unfamiliar with the N-SSA, we shoot live ammunition in Civil War military arms ranging all the way from revolvers to cannon. Twice a year, the third […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: September 28, 2007

    Air Date: 092807 Subject: The 1864 Overland Campaign: Grant vs. Lee Book: In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness Through Cold Harbor & The Battle Of The Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 & The Battles For Spotsylvania Court House And The Road To Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864 & To the North Anna River: […]

  • Oldies but Goodies You Might Have Missed

    I’ve read and noted the new titles listed by Brett. However with this post I want to recommend some older titles(in some cases over a century old) you may have missed. They aren’t especially obscure, all have been published and discussed since the 19th century. “Army Life in a Black Regiment.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s account […]

  • Brett’s Book Purchases: September 2007, Part 2

    Book Purchases: September 2007 Books #11-20 Note: Those of you who followed my now defunct blog American Civil War Gaming & Reading will instantly recognize the format and reasons for this blog entry. For anyone new, my purpose is to post a list of books I’ve bought in the past month, provide information on and […]

  • AGEOD’s ACW Patched to v1.07

    AGEOD’s American Civil War has been patched to version 1.07 according to a news release at the Wargamer web site. This thread at the AGEOD Forums discusses all the changes.

  • A Small Lesson in Tactics Part II

    2. Buying Time One of the reasons there were only 300 Spartan’s at the battle of Thermopylae was that the king could not win support of his constituents to go to war, and so took his own “bodyguard” of 300 off for a stroll. Apart from winning support for the war at home, Leonidis’ actions […]

  • “Saving” The Gettysburg Cyclorama, Just thinking out loud!

    I had stopped in Borders Bookstores here in New Jersey to get a cup of coffee and do some quiet reading.. I picked up a copy of one of the Civil War magazines and in it was an article on the group that is SUING the NPS to “Save” the Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg. For […]