Month: October 2005
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North & South Volume 8, Number 6
Here’s a summary for Volume 8, Number 6 of North & South magazine. For those of you who have never read an issue, I consider this, along with Blue & Gray, to be the two best Civil War magazines today. (Note: I haven’t seen much of Gettysburg Magazine, which I hear is excellent from everyone […]
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Civil War Talk Radio: October 21, 2005
Air Date: 102105 Subject: Blogging the Civil War with Dimitri Rotov Blog: Civil War Bookshelf Guest: Dimitri Rotov Summary: Brett’s Summary: Dimitri Rotov, the very first Civil War blogger, talks over quite a variety of things with Gerry. They first discuss what blogging is, the benefits of blogging, and why Dimitri is qualified to blog. […]
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New Book on Rose Greenhow
Her secret messages changed the course of the Civil War. After she was arrested by the famed detective Allan Pinkerton, an enraged President Lincoln had her thrown in prison with her 8-year-old daughter. She defied her captors until, fed up, the Union banished her to the South, where President Jefferson Davis gave her a huge […]
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How Much to Own Gettysburg? $750,000
I saw a news entry over at The Wargamer that I thought was definitely worth sharing. Apparently some Canadian Civil War enthusiasts decided to model the Battle of Gettysburg in 1:72 scale. It took three guys five years, but they did it. What’s more, they’ve put the entire set up for sale on eBay with […]
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Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly, Part 4
Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly by David A. Welker Chapter 4 – Stuart’s Salutation – Sunday, August 31, 1862; Midday to Nightfall 1. Stonewall Jackson and his vaunted Foot Cavalry began their flanking march from Sudley Church around noon on August 31. However, on this particular day, Jackson’s men weren’t marching at […]
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Volume 8, Issue 6 of N&S Has Arrived
Volume 8, Issue 6 of North & South (finally!) arrived in the mail today. I hope to have a summary up within a few days. One of the articles I’m most interested in involves Pleasant Hill, which occurred during the Red River Campaign. Since all of the current campaign studies on this campaign are atrocious […]
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Review: Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, ed. by Gary Gallagher
http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Valley1864.htm Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign. Edited by Gary Gallagher. The Kent State University Press (1991). 137 pp. 5 maps. The following is a review and summary of Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, edited by Gary Gallagher. Contributors to this collection of essays include Dennis […]