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  • Odds & Ends: May 6, 2008

    An interview of Eric Wittenberg, J.D. Petruzzi, and Mike Nugent, authors of the upcoming title One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 (hat tip to Dimitri for this one) It looks like the Manassas National Battlefield Park has started its own landscape restoration […]

  • Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    I received Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory in the mail on Tuesday from Fordham University Press.  As a German-American, this particular book has special meaning for me. Christian B. Keller ties the scapegoating of the predominantly German Union XI Corps after Chancellorsville to a slowed process of assimilation by German-Americans […]

  • My first visit to the new Gettysburg Visitors Center

    I spent a couple of hours yesterday touring the new Gettysburg National Military Park Visitors Center, highlighted by the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War. Very impressive! For a half dozen photos and my commentary, please visit my Charge! blog entry.

  • Odds & Ends: April 19, 2008

    It’s time for another round of Odds & Ends, including what I think is a strange claim that Stephen Crane was at Antietam, fought ten years before he was born! This is going to be a bit of a long one so I can clean out everything I still wanted to comment on and start […]

  • Odds & Ends: April 17, 2008

    It’s time for another edition of odds and ends. Check out some of the Civil War related news, discussions, and events of the past few days: Members of Board Game Geek discuss Raiders and Blockaders, a miniatures rule set for American Civil War naval warfare Which Civil War general do you most resemble? Take a […]

  • Odds & Ends: April 10, 2008

    I’ve recently subscribed to all of the current Civil War blogs via a feed reader called FeedDemon. FeedDemon is nice because you can install it on multiple computers or read the feeds at www.newsgator.com. All of your locations are automatically synched, so if I read a few blog entries via the News Gator web site […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: April 4, 2008

    Air Date: 040408 Subject: Lee’s Offensives at Antietam, Gettysburg, and Bristoe Station Books: Lee Moves North: Robert E. Lee on the Offensive Guest: Author Michael A. Palmer Summary: Michael Palmer, also of East Carolina University, talks with Gerry about his book Lee Moves North. In the discussion, Palmer goes over why he believes Lee failed […]