I’ve recently subscribed to all of the current Civil War blogs via a feed reader called FeedDemon. FeedDemon is nice because you can install it on multiple computers or read the feeds at www.newsgator.com. All of your locations are automatically synched, so if I read a few blog entries via the News Gator web site at work, when I get home those entries will show up as already read on my FeedDemon installation.
Where am I going with this? In addition to the Civil War blogs, I’ve also subscribed to several phrases which allow me to find some interesting blog entries and news stories involving the Civil War. I’ve decided to create an on-again, off-again series of posts called Odds & Ends which will collect some of these entries. I’ve already found several entries which deserve their own blog entries, so you may see some follow-up to this list.
In this inaugural edition, I present the following:
- A presentiment of death from Sam Watkins’ Company Aytch
- A co-ed’s detailed summary of the Civil War
- Free access to the American Civil War Database at Alexander Street’s Civil War Collections until the end of April 2008
- An interesting blog on wargaming and history, appropriately titled War and Game
- A discussion of West End Games’ 1984 Civil War board game South Mountain at Board Game Geek
- A list of wargamers’ favorite scenarios for each game in the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series of board games
- Civil War buffs work to restore the walls of Fort Lincoln in Scotland, MD
- Doug Mataconis reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals at Below the Beltway
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art recently acquired a rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown
- Volunteers at the Chickamauga Battlefield built a period rail fence during the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park’s 11th annual Park Day on April 5
- Earthworks which surrounded Savannah, GA during Sherman’s approach in late 1864 have been named as one of the nation’s “most endangered sites” by the Civil War Preservation Trust
- Here’s one of many articles focusing on the upcoming opening of the new Gettysburg Visitor’s Center on April 14, 2008
I’m getting so much incoming news to blog about that I’ll be posting a few more Odds & Ends over the next 2-5 days. Look for this to become a relatively stable continuing series of entries here at TOCWOC. I plan to post whenever I have the time to browse through the recent articles and entries coming my way.
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