Category: Guest Blogging

Since we’re on the subject of repeaters, I wanted to plug a recent book that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention, Joe Bilby’s A Revolution in Arms: The History of the First Repeating Rifles. I’ve never actually met Joe, but we became cyberfriends during the writing of my book, when he generously shared his […]

After reading Brett’s comments on historiography and how the story of Grierson’s Raid had been changed to suit various authors, I decided to revisit some comments I made on Eric Wittenberg’s blog recently about John Buford and his cavalry carbines. Wittenberg wrote about the myth, which he had debunked, that Buford’s boys were armed with […]

Last time I blogged about the street fighting in Gettysburg at the Farnsworth House. Lets move down the street toward the town center to the next sharpshooter spot, the Shriver House. G.W. Shriver owned this commodious two story house tha also featured a saloon in the basement and a “ten-pin” alley in a shed behind […]

One of the fun things about researching a book is finding something new, or rather something that Check out Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online for the latest on the Siege of Petersburg!

Last night Frank Cooling emailed me with the web address of the NPS study on the Washington “Circle Forts,” which gives quite a bit of background about the forts from the time their building commenced in 1861 through Jubal Early’s raid to the end of the war. Fort Stevens, for example, started out as Fort […]

As I mentioned in my last post, Fort Stevens is now on the CWPTs “most endangered” list along with the remnants of 67 other “Circle Forts” that guarded Washington during the Civil War. Circle Forts, Washington, D.C. Erected to protect the Union capital from the threat of Confederate assault, the Circle Forts are a ring […]

Hello everyone, I have been kindly invited to do a bit of “guest blogging” about my new book, For Cause & For Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. Published by O’More Publishing the book was released on March 27. Both hardcover and softcover editions are available and […]