Category: Campaigns & Battles
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for Cause and for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, Part 1
for Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin by Eric A. Jacobson and Richard A. Rupp Softback $24.95 plus shipping 519 pages! ISBN 0-9717444-6-7 Hardback $44.95 plus shipping 519 pages! ISBN 0-9717444-4-0 I first heard about this promising new book at the Dispatch Depot Civil […]
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Review: Rebels At The Gate
http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWEast/WestVirginia1861.htm Rebels At The Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Lines of a Nation Divided. W. Hunter Lesser. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc. (May 2004). 376 pp. 3 maps. The following is a review and summary of Rebels At The Gate, a book by W. Hunter Lesser focusing on the 1861 campaign in western Virginia. […]
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The Battles for Jerusalem Plank Road, June 21-24, 1864
I’ve decided to do a short blog entry on each of Grant’s Nine Offensives during the Petersburg Campaign, covering the basics and giving interested readers links to books and web sites for further study. I started last week with my first post on the Battle of Petersburg. After the failed assaults of June 18, 1864, […]
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Charge! Issue 9
Charge! Issue 9 (Fall 2005) Charge! Web Site Page 1 From the Editor’s Desk by Scott Mingus Editor Scott Mingus discusses the recent efforts to restore the appearance of the Gettysburg battlefield to its 1863 look. Page 2 Terrain Tips on a Budget: Making Flock for Basing Figures or Fabricating Terrain by Doug Rogers Doug […]
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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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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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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 […]