Category: Civil War Blogging

  • Issues with Old American Civil War Gaming & Reading Posts

    To my great dismay, I found that many of my posts to the old American Civil War Gaming & Reading Blog did not import correctly into the WordPress CMS I am using for TOCWOC. As a result, I am going to have to go through and manually upload many of these old posts. If you […]

  • GREAT Blog Idea Involving a WW1 Soldier and His Letters

    After my absence from blogging for several months, I was browsing through billyyank1864’s new Civil War blog The Blood of My Kindred intending to welcome him to the Civil War blogosphere (which I did, and welcome again billyyank1864!), when I came across a link to a blog with a really, really interesting format. WW1: Experiences […]

  • Interesting Reading on Ways To Increase Blog Readership

    I normally don’t stray too far from the Civil War on this blog, but I’ve recently been reading up on ways to increase blog readership and I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve learned, either in these articles or on my own. First, I thought I’d lead off with some of the better […]

  • URL Change for Brian Downey’s AotW

    Brian Downey’s behind AotW (which stand for Antietam on the Web) has changed URLs. The new address is http://behind.aotw.org/. Change your bookmarks accordingly.

  • One Year Anniversary

    Today marks one full year of blogging for myself, Fred Ray, Johnny Whitewater, and several other guest bloggers. I wanted to take a brief moment to thank the Civil War and wargaming enthusiasts who make up the vast majority of the readers of this blog. It’s been a lot of fun, and I hope you’ve […]

  • Blog Hiatus

    I’ll be taking a short two week break from blogging starting today. My sister is back from a summer in France but heads off to Penn State late this month to start grad school, so I’ll be away from the computer for most of that time. Guest blogger Fred Ray may still be making the […]

  • Another New Civil War Blog: Volunteers in Parks

    I discovered another new blog related to the Civil War called Volunteers in Parks via the Civil War Interactive Blog list.  Mannie Gentile is a Park Ranger at Antietam National Battlefield Park, and the blog details his experiences for others interested in seeing what it is like to work for the National Park Service.  Mannie’s […]