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Category: Strategy & Tactics

  • for Cause and for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, Part 3

    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 […]

  • The Battle of Fort Stevens

    I’ve blogged about the battle of Fort Stevens previously here, here, and here. Next Tuesday and Wednesday (July 11 and 12) will the the 142nd anniversary of one of the more important and least understood battles of the war, and the only battle in which a sitting president came under fire. Although usually written off […]

  • for Cause and for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, Part 2

    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 […]

  • Studying the June 22 Fight Near Jerusalem Plank Road: Maps

    After posting a short blog entry commemorating the anniversary of the Battles for Jerusalem Plank Road on June 21, I was astonished to find that there has never even been so much as a magazine article focusing on the fighting on June 22, 1864 between Mahone’s Confederate Division and the Union II Corps, led that […]

  • Review: Shock Troops of the Confederacy by Fred Ray

    http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWUnitHistories/ShockTroopsConfederacySharpshootersRay.html Note: For those of you who missed it, you might want to check out my multi-part summary of the book, starting with Part 1. Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia. Fred L. Ray. Asheville, NC: CFS Press (2006). 432 pp. 43 maps. Review Fred Ray’s Shock […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]