Tag: atlanta campaign
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Civil War Times Illustrated, January 2007
Why Are These Summaries Showing Up Late? Civil War Times Illustrated Volume 45, Number 10 (January 2007) Civil War Times Illustrated Web Site Mail Call…..4 Turning Points: Arming the Confederacy…..9 Josiah Gorgas by Jeffry D. Wert This month Turning Points looks at Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Ornance Bureau. Gallery: South Carolina […]
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Review: The Women Will Howl by Mary Deborah Petite
The Women Will Howl: The Union Capture of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia, and the Forced Relocation of Mill Workers by Mary Deborah Petite ISBN 978-0-7864-3168-7 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008 187 Pages – Hardcover (7 x 10) – $45 Photos & Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index Information wanted: My widowed daughter, Eliza Ray, […]
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Odds & Ends: May 29, 2008
Gone With the Wind and UFOs? Check it out. XDA has a list of the top 45 war movies ever made. I have no idea how these were chosen, but only three American Civil War movies made the list: Glory Ride With the Devil The General Harry Smeltzer has a nice start to a bibliography […]
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Review: Sherman’s Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations In The Atlanta Campaign
The following is a review and summary of David Evans
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CRISIS Strategic Wargaming System
Operational scale Civil War wargames for the PC are about as rare as you can get. CRISIS, a game system designed by Dutch Owen in the 1990s, is probably as close as you can get. The URL is: http://museum.sysun.com/crisis/index.html Although the game appears primitive at first glance (note the early 1990s graphics!) and the interface […]
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The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864, Part 3
The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864 by Philip L. Secrist PART II – Resaca Rediscovered Part II of the book discusses the post-battle state of the Resaca Battlefield. Secrist, a noted relic hunter, describes the positives and negatives which have arisen as a result of that practice, and he also dedicates a chapter to […]
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The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864, Part 2
The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864 by Philip L. Secrist Chapter 1 – The Plan of Battle 1. Secrist briefly discusses Sherman’s plan of action prior to the Atlanta Campaign. Sherman was looking to win a decisive engagement somewhere south of Rome, Georgia. Johnston’s Army would then disintegrate, leaving the way open to Atlanta […]