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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” […]
Civil War Odds & Ends: July 26, 2008
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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
What books would you suggest?
July 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
As some of you may know, I am a reenactor. I have had a few new guys join my unit recently, and they wanted a few books to read on “what was life like for a Confederate soldier”. So, here are the books I suggested, in no particular order- – “Company Aytch” by Sam Watkins […]
Categories: Civil War Books
Tags: · company aytch, for cause and comrades, johnny reb, reenacting, sam watkins, Soldier life
Odds & Ends: May 22, 2008
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
No real introduction this time. Let’s get right to a look at Civil War news and info from blogs, other web sites, and newspapers. David Woodbury has an interview up with Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones. In addition to appearing on DW’s Civil War blog, Dr. Bynum was also a guest […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · 150th anniversary of the civil war, 48th pennsylvania, Civil War Blogs, david woodbury, drew gilpin faust, edward hagerman, henry pleasants, john david hoptak, lincoln assassination, paul taylor, reenacting, rene tyree, The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfar, the free state of jones, this republic of suffering, throes of democracy, vicksburg, victoria bynum, view restoration at gettysburg, walter mcdougall, wig-wags, with sword and pen
Odds & Ends: May 17, 2008
May 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Everyone reading this knows TOCWOC is a Civil War blog. Odds & Ends does focus on the Civil War, but it does so by looking at blogs and web sites whose main focus often isn’t the Civil War or even history. This particular Odds & Ends has a bit of a wargaming bent this time […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · antietam, archer jones, barack obama, card games, civil war blog, civil war command and strategy, confederate memorial day, dale cox, david woodbury, Dixie, dunker church, Education, gettysburg, harriet beecher stowe, leon trotsky, pickett's charge, prairie grove battlefield state park, reenacting, sam white, Shiloh, the battle of massard prairie, uncle tom's cabin, Wargaming
Odds & Ends: May 6, 2008
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
An interview of Eric Wittenberg, J.D. Petruzzi, and Mike Nugent, authors of the upcoming title One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 (hat tip to Dimitri for this one) It looks like the Manassas National Battlefield Park has started its own landscape restoration […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · age of empires iii, chancellorsville, civil war novels, david s. mcdougal, drew gilpin faust, freemasonry, gary d. joiner, gettysburg, gettysburg electric map, homeopathy, joseph t. glatthaar, julia ward howe, manassas national battlefield park, mr. lincoln's brown water navy, reenacting, sam white, this republic of suffering
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
Preservation: How to Do It Right
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Centex Homes of Texas gets kudos for its willingness to work with local preservation groups so as to save a battlefield but still get to develop the land surrounding the battlefield. In an unprecedented partnership that should serve as the template for all such efforts, Centex agreed to carve out the Bristoe Station battlefield site […]
Categories: Preservation
Tags: · bristoe station, civil war, Preservation, reenacting
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