Month: June 2006
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Charge! Issue 8
Charge! Issue 8 Charge! Web Site Page 1 From the Editor’s Desk by Scott Mingus Editor Scott Mingus discusses his attendance at the annual Gettysburg Anniversary Reenactment, noting that author John Michael Priest “demonstrated a new 54mm skirmish wargame at Greystone’s American History Store.” Mingus also announced that his book Undying Courage: Antietam in Miniature […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: June 17, 1864
June 17, 1864 Skirmish on the Bermuda Hundred, VA, front, as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard fends off the 2nd Corps under Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock, USA. Gen. Lee realizes Petersburg is Grant’s target and sends the Army of Northern Virginia to Petersburg, the Richmond (VA) Campaign. The Engagment at Lynchburg, VA, where Lieut. Gen. Jubal […]
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Charge! Issue 7
Charge! Issue 7 Charge! Issue 7 Charge! Web Site Page 1 From the Editor’s Desk by Scott Mingus Editor Scott Mingus discusses John Zabawa’s Gettysburg Miniature Soldiers in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, gives a recap of his presentation on John Gordon’s Brigade to the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table, mentions his book Enduring Valor: Gettysburg in Miniature, […]
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My Civil War Books Page Updated
I’ve fallen WAY behind as far as placing my Civil War book collection online goes. With that in mind, I started to make a dent in the problem tonight before I head out on the town. I had around 220 books online and just glancing over the new books, there are almost that many which […]
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Wargaming
I’ve gotten away from my coverage of wargaming more than I’d like lately. The review of Charge! Issue 7 below is just the beginning as far as getting back to the “Gaming” part of American Civil War Gaming & Reading. I hope to review my copy of Scott Mingus’ Johnny Reb 3 Antietam scenario book […]
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Today in the Petersburg Campaign: June 16, 1864
June 16, 1864 Action on the Bermuda Hundred, VA, front, as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, CSA, pulls most of his troops back to defend the Petersburg, VA, line, the Richmond (VA) Campaign. Actions at Fort Clifton,VA, the Richmond (VA) Campaign. 6/16-17/1864 Skirmish at New London, VA, with Maj Gen. Breckinridge, CSA, The Lynchburg, VA Campaign. […]
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Review: Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWEast/WestVirginia1861.htm Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign. Clayton R. Newell. Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing, Inc. (October 1996). 325 pp. 7 maps. The following is a review and summary of Clayton R. Newell’s Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign. When I first started reading Lee Vs. McClellan, I did not […]