{"id":580,"date":"2008-04-15T06:09:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2008-04-14T21:16:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T02:16:45","slug":"odds-ends-april-15-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/2008\/04\/15\/odds-ends-april-15-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds &#038; Ends: April 15, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odds &amp; Ends is a recurring set of clog entries which covers recent news and posts of interest on the web.  In addition to the Civil War blogs, I&#8217;ve also subscribed to several phrases which allow me to find some interesting blog entries and news stories involving the Civil War. I&#8217;ve decided to create an on-again, off-again series of posts called Odds &amp; Ends which will collect some of these entries.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at some of the recent items of interest I&#8217;ve found recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyergroup.com\/webnewsfirst\/local_story_098161719.html?keyword=topstory\"> Civil War reenactors of the 49th Indiana are profiled<\/a> at The Flyer Group<\/li>\n<li>An Abraham Lincoln letter r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.american-presidents.org\/2008\/04\/lincoln-letter-sets-auction-record.html\">ecently went for $3.4 Million<\/a> at auction<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mslaw.libsyn.com\/index.php?post_id=326561\">A podcast interview with James McPherson<\/a> from mslaw<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2008\/apr\/09\/resaca-battlefield-should-have-money-launch\/\">A new visitors center at the Resaca battlefield may open<\/a> as early as the end of this year<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ku.edu\/2008\/april\/11\/blight.shtml\">David Blight is giving a lecture<\/a> at Kansas University on April 24, 2008<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrich.com\/cva\/ric\/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-04-11-0174.html\">Edward L. Ayers is the new President<\/a> of the University of Richmond<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/westendwhingers.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/10\/review-gone-with-the-wind-the-musical-act-1-at-the-new-london-theatre\/\">A review of Gone With the Wind &#8211; The Musical!<\/a> (are all titles of musicals required to have an exclamation point at the end?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.lulu.com\/content\/1246483\"><em>Running the Batteries: The Story of the Western Gunboat Flotilla<\/em><\/a> is available for $39.95 in a hardback edition or as a free download.  Has anyone heard of this one?<\/li>\n<li>Florence, KY <a href=\"http:\/\/rodeo.cincinnati.com\/getlocal\/gpstory.aspx?id=100039&amp;sid=128043\">eighth graders have a &#8220;Civil War Day&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldhistoryblog.com\/2008\/04\/civil-war-animated.html\">World History Blog spends some time<\/a> checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/civilwaranimated.com\">Civil War Animated<\/a>, a site using animation to describe Civil War battles<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waldolydeckersjournal.blogspot.com\/\">Waldo Lydecker&#8217;s Journal<\/a> takes <a href=\"http:\/\/waldolydeckersjournal.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/and-some-have-greatness-thrust-upon.html\">a look at Appomattox and Wilmer McLean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyewitnesstohistory.com\/cwfrm.htm\">Eyewitness to History<\/a> looks at history through the eyes of those who were there<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/\">J-Walk Blog<\/a> looks over <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/confederated_states_of_america\/\">the movie Confederate States of America<\/a><\/li>\n<li>JD Petruzzi <a href=\"http:\/\/petruzzi.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/11\/dont-like-what-im-hearing\/\">isn&#8217;t sure about<\/a> the new Gettyburg Visitor&#8217;s Center bookstore<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the faux documentary Confederate states of America, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=MH58-UN_ANM\">here&#8217;s a YouTube clip<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds &amp; Ends is a recurring set of clog entries which covers recent news and posts of interest on the web. In addition to the Civil War blogs, I&#8217;ve also subscribed to several phrases which allow me to find some interesting blog entries and news stories involving the Civil War. I&#8217;ve decided to create an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[183,311,309,307,306,303,308,310,305],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-odds-ends","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-david-blight","tag-edward-l-ayers","tag-gettysburg-visitors-center","tag-gone-with-the-wind","tag-james-mcpherson","tag-lulucom","tag-resaca","tag-the-confederate-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}