Category: Guest Blogging

This past week my father had the incredible fortune of getting to attend a business meeting in Gettysburg, becoming my second non Civil War obsessed relative to wind up there by chance in as many months, while I freeze in Milwaukee. And yet I still had to talk him into going on a tour of […]

Another guest blogger, Johnny Whitewater, a reader of this blog, has agreed to pitch in with the occasional post. If you see a post by “Johnny Whitewater”, obviously you’ll know it’s Johnny’s. He runs his own (non-Civil War) blog in his spare time. Mr. Whitewater is no amateur, having graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in […]

I’ve been visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield for nearly 30 years now, ever since I was a tyke and my parents took me there. Back then, I understood little and was content–like most kids my age–to crawl around the rocks at Devil’s Den and get lost in the woods. Of course, as I got older, and […]

The first question to answer is: What is my interest level for any particular battle? It can’t be understated that to design a good game, the interest MUST be very high. In fact, it’s best to be able to visit the battlefield, but not essential. Though I’m originally from California, I now reside in Tennessee. […]

A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad, The Vermont Brigade June 23, 1864 Civil War authors and historians generally paint with a broad brush. Multiple books are available, and more appear every day it seems, describing the great battles and campaigns of the war. Infantrymen, however, do not fight great battles. They slug it out […]

Drew Wagenhoffer had a piece on his blog this week about lawyers who write Civil War history. He had a list of us, myself included. Fortunately, most of us are well-respected names like Gordon Rhea, Kent Masterson Brown, Russel “Cap” Beatie, and the dean of all of us, Alan Nolan. It’s been my good fortune […]