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Category: Civil War on the Web

  • The Civil War Network Debuts Today

    The Civil War Network has released its first program for your listening pleasure.  Go check it out!  Francis Rose, the blog’s founder, was kind enough to send along the following information: The Civil War Network debuts today Premiere show includes James McPherson, others Washington, DC – With a lineup that includes Pulitzer Prize winning Civil […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio Returns on Friday

    Gerry Prokopowicz will again get comfortable in his role as Civil War Talk Radio’s host on Friday, August 29, 2008 after a well-deserved summer off.  According to Dimitri Rotov at Civil War Bookshelf, author Russell Bonds (Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor) will be appearing as this week’s […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: August 2008

    Last month I took a look at the Amazon.com top 10 Civil War bestsellers.  Now I’d like to take a look again and see how (if?) this list has changed much over time. I’ve taken the liberty of removing non-Civil War related books from the list.  The books below are in the Civil War top […]

  • Clark’s “NC Regiments” on line

    After the war many states published extensive histories about the organizations that took part in the conflict. North Carolina’s contribution was a massive five volume 1901 opus edited by a former Confederate colonel, Walter Clark. In spite of its cumbersome title, Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war […]

  • Tim Smith Virtual Book Signing on Saturday

    Timothy B. Smith, the author of The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890s and the Establishment of America’s First Five Military Parks, will appear on Saturday, August 23rd from 12-1 pm Central at VirtualBookSigning.net.  Hat tip to historicus at The History Channel Civil War boards.  Looking a little further down the […]

  • The Cameron telegram

    Many people think the Civil War started with the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. However, the capture of Sumter was bloodless and was simply a continuation of the Southern policy of seizing Federal properties located on their soil. What really pushed things over the edge was Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to […]