TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

It’s time again for another round of Odds & Ends. As usual, there are a wide variety of topics covered.

• Blogger and author Dale Cox announces his latest book, The Battle of Massard Prairie

• Blogger and author Bryan S. Bush announces his new book A Historic Tour of Louisville During the Civil War, due out in June 2008

• Jim Miller at Civil War Notebook sees a need for much editing of the movie “Gods & Generals”

• Paul Taylor reviews Gary Gallagher’s Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten at With Sword and Pen

• Another After Action Report at deans-inter.net, this time on the First Bull Run scenario from Across 5 Aprils

• The introduction and first part of a massive after action report using GMT Games’ board game Three Days of Gettysburg (3DoG), a regimental treatment of the well-known battle using Richard Berg’s Great Battles of the American Civil War rules

• Cowgirl Jazz relates the story of how Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame was influenced by The Killer Angels when creating his television series Firefly

• Sherman’s famous “War is Hell” quote applied to moving from one home to another

• Scott Mingus has a nice new article (with photos!) on the new Gettysburg Visitor’s Center we’ve all been hearing so much about lately

• The world’s biggest tree is named after General William Tecumseh Sherman; who knew?

• Dan Sickles’ plea of temporary insanity gets an amusing look at Unremitting Failure

• Hiker Dude blogs about Chickamauga National Military Park

• War and Game blogs about the campaign in East Tennessee for Knoxville in late 1863

• Four brothers spend quality family time reenacting the Civil War

• In an ironic twist, some preservationists are fighting to SAVE the current Visitor’s Center building

• Reenacting the United States Christian Commission during the Civil War

• Getting a “Buford’s Eye View” of the Gettysburg Battlefield

• Several critiques of Gone With the Wind: The Musical

• Chet at Science Musings delivers our obligatory This Republic of Suffering review
  

• Dorothea Dix’s requirements to be a nurse

• A less than accurate view of the Maryland Campaign (maybe McClellan really WAS outnumbered!)