Category: Civil War News

I realized today that I have omitted one very important group from my side menus: Civil War forums and discussion groups. I added a bunch of links today, and I encourage everyone to check these out as there are a lot of people out there ready and willing to discuss the Civil War with you. […]

For those of you who are eBayers, I thought you might be interested in joining the American Civil War Books eBay group I started today. The group will focus on discussions of both good and bad Civil War books, games, and other items that are bought and sold on eBay. Everyone is welcome to join. […]

As both an amateur historian and a wargamer, I get the feeling sometimes that academia and other amateur historians sometimes look down their noses at anyone who plays wargames. With this in mind, I sent out an email to several prominent people in the Civil War wargaming community. The email follows in its entirety below: […]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I probably won’t be posting again until early next week. Enjoy yourselves everybody.

Add another Civil War blog to our suddenly booming community. Amateur historian (like myself) Andy MacIsaac has created First Maine Forward, a blog concentrating on Maine in the Civil War, with a special emphasis on the First Maine Heavy Artillery. Here’s Andy’s reasoning for starting a blog, straight from his first post: A little about […]

I don’t do this nearly enough, so I figured I’d take the time this Sunday to point out all sorts of interesting subjects on some of the other Civil War blogs out there. We start out with the original Civil war blogger, Dimitri Rotov, at his Civil War Book News blog. He was recently attending […]