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My Top Ten Gettysburg Books
Brett Schulte at TOCWOC came up with a brilliant idea, which was to get a number of Civil War bloggers to list their ten favorite/most influential Gettysburg books on the anniversary of the battle. Brett was kind enough to ask me to participate, so here’s my list. I have not included any of...
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Published 3 days ago

The Civil War’s Most Irritating Blogger
I hereby nominate this new blog for the 2009 Most Irritating Civil War Blogger Award. This guy insists on wasting other people’s bandwidth to announce his every blog post, and then he does so by referring to himself in the third person. Here’s a prime example of what I’m talking about...
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Published 6 days ago

Looks Like the Wilderness Wal-Mart is a Done Deal
From today’s AP wire: Wal-Mart step closer to store near Va. battlefield By STEVE SZKOTAK Associated Press Writer June 25, 2009 ORANGE, Va. - Wal-Mart has won the backing of Orange County planners for a Supercenter near the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia. The 5-4 vote Thursday sends the...
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Published a week ago

The Idiot Finally Does the Right Thing
Thanks to loyal reader Charlie Knight for passing along the news that the imbecile re-enactor who fired a live round at another re-enactor and wounded him has finally done the right thing and pled guilty. From today’s issue of the Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot: Civil War re-enactor pleads...
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Published a week ago

An Interview With Jim Lighthizer
Mike Noirot has an excellent and interesting interview of Jim Lighthizer, the president of the CWPT, on his blog today, and I commend it to you.
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Published a week ago

Confederate Cavalry at Gettysburg
Someone asked, Why didn’t Lee use his other cavalry units to scout out the land to find the location of the Union army? I mean… Stuart disappeared, so why not send your own cavalry to scout ahead. This makes no sense to me. I couldn’t resist. Here’s my response: There were seven...
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Published 2 weeks ago

146 Years Ago Today
146 years ago today, the Union cavalry, supported by Col. Strong Vincent’s infantry brigade of the Army of the Potomac’s Fifth Corps, defeated Jeb Stuart’s cavalry at the Battle of Upperville. Upperville is significant for a variety of reasons, but mainly because it represents the first...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Dahlgren Update
On Monday, Dan Hoisington, the publisher at Edinborough Press, the publisher of my Ulric Dahlgren bio, informed me that he had approved the blue lines for the book and had returned them. He indicated that the printer was running about two weeks for printing and binding, so it would appear that...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Home Again (At Last!)
Yesterday finally ended three weeks of insanity. On Friday morning, I hit the road for Virginia, headed for Culpeper. It’s nearly 435 miles each way, and it’s a LONG drive. I reached the Graffiti House at Brandy Station about 3:30, and then spent the next 90 minutes laying out a driving...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Crash and Burn
At 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon, as I was busily working on a draft of a complaint, my laptop suddenly locked up. When I tried to reboot it, it would not boot; the hard drive just made a clicking noise, and I came to the incredibly unhappy realization that I had suffered the same hard drive crash...
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Published 3 weeks ago