Tag: campaigns for charleston

  • 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 […]

  • Review In Brief: Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863

    Books on the Campaigns for Charleston Gate of Hell: The Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863 by Stephen R. Wise 312 pp., 27 maps The 1863 summer Campaign for Charleston has been completely overlooked in the history of the war. The twin major Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg dominated the news scene and the imagination […]