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Vice President Dick Cheney will attend the re-enactment of the battle of Chickamauga later this month. Cheney’s great-grandfather was Capt. Sam Fletcher Cheney, born in Boscawen in Merrimack County, N.H., in 1829. He was an aide-de-camp to Col. William Sirwell, commander of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division of the XIV Corps. The vice president will […]
Dick Cheney at Chickamauga
September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Categories: Campaigns & Battles · Civil War Memory
Tags: · chickamauga, Civil War Courier, Dick Cheney
Civil War Odds & Ends: July 26, 2008
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Yesterday’s Odds & Ends took a look at the latest in the Civil War blogosphere. As promised, here is a bonus Odds & Ends covering the rest of the latest Civil War news across the rest of the World Wide Web. I am also going to start calling this column “Civil War Odds & Ends” […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · 54th massachusetts, abraham lincoln museum, alexander's bridge, atlanta cyclorama, battery wagner, caution and cooperation, charleston, chickamauga, civil war movies, civil war museums, drew gilpin faust, george g. meade, gettysburg cyclorama, phillip e. myers, reenacting, richmond, secession, southeast tennessee's civil war trails, this republic of suffering, tredegar iron works
Odds & Ends: June 21, 2008
June 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
This Odds & Ends is going out while I’m in LA on a business trip. I’ll probably either be packing up our booth from the Trade Show or on a plane home when you read this. Good thing you get to do some Civil War related reading while I’m away! 😉 Old Picture of the […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · antietam, causes won lost and forgotten, chickamauga, civil war movies, clear island, cold mountain, gamble for victory, gary gallagher, Gary Grigsby's War Between the States, gettysburg, jourdon anderson, osprey graphic history, petersburg campaign, richard r. kirkland, siege of petersburg, slavery, telegraph, thaddeus lowe, the angel of marye's heights, the battle of the crater
Odds & Ends: June 10, 2008
June 10th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s been a little while since the last Odds & Ends column, so I’ll throw another one out there for readers to chew on: A discussion focusing on American Civil War games and fog of war Chris Wehner has a nice entry on Civilian Casualties as a Direct Result of the Civil War John Burns […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · awaiting the heavenly country, barren victory ii, brooks simpson, chickamauga, civil war nicknames, Civil War Wargames, civilian casualties, fog of war, general lee, gettysburg, grant & lee exhibit, jennie wade, john burns, linear tactics, mark schantz, Multiman Publishing, the dukes of hazzard, this hallowed ground, throes of democracy, walter mcdougall
Odds & Ends: April 22, 2008
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
It’s time again for another round of Odds & Ends. As usual, there are a wide variety of topics covered. Blogger and author Dale Cox announces his latest book, The Battle of Massard Prairie Blogger and author Bryan S. Bush announces his new book A Historic Tour of Louisville During the Civil War, due out […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · a historic driving tour of louisville during the civil, antietam, causes won lost and forgotten, chickamauga, dale cox, dorothea dix, gary gallagher, gettysburg visitor's center, GMT Games, gods & generals, gone with the wind, reenacting, the battle of massard prairie, united states christian commission, william t. sherman
Odds & Ends: April 10, 2008
April 10th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve recently subscribed to all of the current Civil War blogs via a feed reader called FeedDemon. FeedDemon is nice because you can install it on multiple computers or read the feeds at www.newsgator.com. All of your locations are automatically synched, so if I read a few blog entries via the News Gator web site […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · chickamauga, civil war preservation trust, doris kearns goodwin, gcacw, genealogy, gettysburg, sam watkins, south mountain, team of rivals, west end games
MMP Has Barren Victory II Available for Preorder
April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I completely missed this one, but Multiman Publishing is now offering Barren Victory II (BVII) for preorder. BVII, which covers Chickamauga, is the latest entry in the Civil War Brigade Series (CWBS). The game looks a little pricey with an $82 preorder price, but Chickamauga is a larger battle, even at the brigade level. The […]
Categories: Civil War Game Publishers · Civil War Games - New · Civil War Wargames · Multiman Publishing · Western Theater
Tags: · chickamauga, civil war brigade series
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