TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done an Odds & Ends post, so I’ll go over exactly what it is again here.  Civil War Odds & Ends posts are lists of interesting Civil War news stories I come across in my feed reader.  The idea is to provide TOCWOC’s readers with some interesting blog posts and web sites containing Civil War news and information.  TOCWOC author Fred Ray also does this with his series of “Short Takes” posts.  Look out for more of both in the future.  Without further ado, on to this week’s Civil War Odds and Ends:

• TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog will be hosting the History Carnival for July 2009. Let’s make sure we get some posts from Civil War blogs nominated, shall we?
• Blogcritics Magazine is less than impressed with the Blu-Ray edition of Gettysburg – The Battle and the Address.
• Dr. Denny Forwood dabbles as a dentist when he isn’t tramping the battlefield as a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg.
• Sarah Johnson at Reading the Past reviews Dara Horn’s All Other Nights, a Civil War novel “focus[ing] on Jewish spies during the American Civil War.”
• The Stones River National Battlefield saw a major storm, but not of shot and shell, on Good Friday.
• A Slightly Odd View of the American Civil War has a case study on The Last Hundred Yards and Cold Harbor.
• John David Hoptak has a new book on Antietam trivia available for sale at lulu.com. Go check it out!
• Gettysburg: The Battle That Changed America, a program on the Military Channel, is receiving scathing reviews from the Civil War blogosphere.
• Rebecca’s Book Blog reviews Leigh Ann’s Civil War by Ann Rinaldi, a work of young adult fiction.
• Jim Rosebrock at South from the North Woods is doing some interesting things with slideshows, this time focusing on The Advance of McLaws Division at Antietam.
• Teaching the Civil War with Technology asks, “Gettysburg Done in Legos?”, and finds an answer in the affirmative at YouTube!