TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

If you’re a regular reader, you’re well aware of my Odds & Ends column.  For anyone new stumbling on this post after a search, let me briefly explain.  Odds & Ends is a semi-regular series which attempts to pull together some of the recent interesting happenings and news about the Civil War.  You might see anything from book reviews to wargaming entries to modern day preservation to almost anything you can think of related to the Civil War.  With that little bit of housekeeping out of the way, on to today’s Odds & Ends:

• Thoughts about designing a grand-strategic American Civil War block game

• You Bitch! covers Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

• No one apparently gives a damn about the new musical “Gone With the Wind” (lame, I know, but everyone else is using it!)

• Merinews takes a short look at The Fighting McCooks by Charles and Barbara Whalen

• When exactly did the Civil War begin?

• elitaste.com says Disney’s Song of the South is apparently the fifth most controversial film of all time

• Watching Glory on Spring Break is probably a more fruitful way to spend your time, but I doubt as much fun!

• The Log of a Librarian discusses The Devil’s Dictionary by Civil War veteran and renowned cynic Ambrose Bierce

• George B. McClellan as a “peacetime general” at Maggie’s Farm

• Eric Wittenberg has more on the tree cutting at Gettysburg

• The Rutland (VT) Herald tackles Bradley Gottfried’s The Maps of Gettysburg

• The Hanover (PA) Evening Sun asks readers what to do with the embattled Electric Map

• Restoration work on the Gettysburg Cyclorama continues

• The Hanover Evening Sun makes another appearance in Odds & Ends, this time advising readers to visit the Monocacy Battlefield

• Bob & Reb’s Genealogy Blog feature a Union pay receipt from April 20, 1865