TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

In this weekend edition of Odds & Ends, we’ll take a look at a few of the Civil War blogs and then move on to Civil War stories from around the blogosphere and the rest of the internet.

• Eric Wittenberg has decided to write a book on the battles of Tupelo and Brices Crossroads.  He promises to leave his anti-Forrest bias out of the process.  I’m sure the finished product, years down the road, will be up to Eric’s usual standards.
• Ted Savas discusses the ever lower barriers to becoming a publisher at A Publisher’s Perspective
• Congrats to Nick at Battlefield Wanderings!  He tied the knot yesterday and the blog will understandably be set aside for a few weeks.
• Dimitri has another post on Gary Grigsby’s Civil War, this one more detailed than the last.
• An interesting new web site entitled Stories of the Civil War has been launched.  Hat tip to Craig Warren at Civil War Literature for highlighting the site in a recent blog entry.
• The many disguises of Sarah Edmonds at LiveJournal
  
• GLORY is surprisingly high on a list of the 10 most patriotic movies to watch on the Fourth of July.  Of course, this list is a little questionable when SUPERMAN comes in first!
• Non-Civil War buffs discuss McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom versus Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative.
• Sarah B. Dine at Health Affairs reviews Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War.
• A review of GLORY at MatchFlick.com gives the film good marks.
• The Iona II, a ship built in 1863 in Great Britain, was suspected of being a blockade runner transporting supplies for the Confederacy when she sank in 1864 on her first transatlantic voyage.  The London Daily Telegraph lists the wreck of the ship as one of the top 10 English wreck sites most at risk of being lost forever.
• A Civil War strategy board game designer asks Civil War aficionados to evaluate the Confederate Army in 1862.  What follows is an interesting discussion on Confederate command structure in 1862.
• richardhowe.com promises quite a bit of upcoming Lowell, Massachusetts Civil War discussion as the Sesquicentennial approaches.
• Another movie top 10 list, this time the Top 10 War movies, has GETTYSBURG at #10.
• Here’s one Eric will like.  Pawnderings discusses using wargames to study the (un)likelihood that Tom Carhart’s “Lost Triumph” theory is workable.