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Civil War Book Acquisitions, November 2014, Part 3

November 26th, 2014 · No Comments

The Chickamauga Campaign:A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of the Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22-September 19, 1863 by David A. Powell Savas Beatie Format: Hardcover, 696 pages Price: $37.50 ISBN: 978-1-61121-174-0 eBook: 978-1-61121-175-7 On Sale: November 2014 26 maps, 40 images TOCWOC’s Take: Even with all of the excellent Petersburg Campaign […]

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Categories: Civil War Book Publishers · Civil War Books - Authors · Civil War Books - New · Civil War Books - Now Reading · In The Review Queue · McFarland Book of the Week

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Civil War Book Review: Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign

January 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign by David Powell Product Details Hardcover: 408 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (November 19, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714871 ISBN-13: 978-1932714876 “Would you like to go on a battlefield walk in Chickamauga?”  Answering “yes” to this question introduced the […]

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Dave Powell Comments on The Hard Hand of War

April 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Dave Powell posted an excellent and lengthy response to my recent review of Mark Grimsley’s The Hard Hand of War in the comments section following the entry.  Dave brings up a great point about the lack of studies examining Confederate soldiers’ destruction of their own civilian property.  In order to allow the most people to […]

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Categories: Best of TOCWOC - 2008 · Best of TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog · Civilians · Enlisted Men

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GMT Games Announces a New GBACW Game on Murfreesboro (Stones River)

April 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I received an interesting email from GMT Games last weekend offering a new game called Dead of Winter (DoW) in their “P500” program. Dead of Winter covers the late 1862 (and early 1863) battle of Murfreesboro (or Stones River). Designed by Dave Powell with an assist from Richard Berg, DoW is the newest game in […]

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Categories: Civil War Game Publishers · Civil War Games - New · Civil War Wargames · GMT Games

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Civil War Talk Radio: January 28, 2005

January 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Air Date: 012805 Subject: Dave Powell: Civil War on a Card Table Web Site: http://www.multimanpublishing.com Guest: Dave Powell Summary: Dave Powell explains how he designs simulation games based on Civil War battles. Brett’s Summary: Dave does so much more than that!  He is talking about wargaming, mainly board games, his area of specialty, but also […]

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