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 Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers     (NEW)

Here we have a blog of relatively narrow focus--Rhode Island and the Civil War. Blogger Robert Grandchamp is the author of a number of books on the topic, and he works as a seasonal NPS ranger at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. The posts include discussions of different battles and fields, but always the focus is on what Rhode Islanders did in those campaigns. This is a Blogspot page and comments require users to have existing accounts with either Google or some other specified service like WordPress or AIM, followed by a "captcha".

48th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry

John Hoptak, a full time ranger for the National Park Service at Antietam National Battlefield, writes and photographs on events at that park. As the blog name here indicates he has a special interest in the 48th PA V.V.I. and so there are posts on other battles or actions or persons related to that regiment.  

The Abraham Lincoln Blog

Geoff Elliott writes, as you might guess, about the 16th President. His well-written posts range from clips of news stories to insightful explorations of how Lincoln --both the real one and the one we know from our "civic mythology--impacts politics and other fields of society today.

Army of Tennessee

This group blog is run by Christopher Young, Daryl Black, Patrick Lewis and Lee White and explores topics pertaining to the great Confederate army of the Western Theater. As their blog URL "bullyforbragg" suggests they attempt to turn a more charitable eye on the army's best known commander than popular perception would have it, while avoiding the pitfalls of revisionism.

Battlefield Wanderings

Nick Kurtz is a self-described "Civil War nut" who doesn't just wander battlefields but photographs them. Well. He has an exceptional eye through the lens and an added ability to shoot modern-day battlefield landscapes in such away as to convey where monuments are in relation to each other.

Blog Divided      (NEW)

This attractive site is a project of Dickinson College (Pennsylvania), devoted to a somewhat wider span of time than is usual for "Civil War" blogs. They call it the "House Divided Period" and are open to discussion of any events between around 1840 and 1880. The intent of the operators is to generate teaching aids for educators of any level. Comments are open and readers are not required to register or login to post. Comment moderation is apparently invoked only if misbehavior arises. Looks to be a valuable asset for history teachers, who often feel somewhat isolated at their individual schools.

Bull Runnings

Harry Smeltzer uses Bull Run (or Manassas if you prefer) as a home base from which to venture forth with posts on everything from excerpts from the Official Record to baseball to Civil War horror movies. The white-type-on-black-background is somewhat aggravating but the writing makes it worth slogging through.

Cenantua's Blog     (NEW)

"Centantua" aka Robert Moore, has been putting out this blog for much the same time as he has been working on a Master of Science in Technical & Scientific Communication degree from James Mason University. Topics range widely, but a running theme, no doubt relating to the parallel educational process, is the application of technology to history, both in teaching it academically and in the wider e-society outside the classroom. Technical jargon of the communications-major sort creeps in from time to time, but overall a nice read. Comments are easily posted without any impediments to the reader beyond including a nym and email address, a practice we commend.

Civil War Books & Authors

Andrew Wagenhoffer has one of very few blogs which must be regarded as "go-to sites" prior to buying Civil War books.  We can do no better than to quote his own site description: "...with a special emphasis on the lesser known and underappreciated American Civil War books, authors, and publishers."

Charge! Civil War Wargaming & News

Scott Mingus' site caters to what you would think was an incredibly tiny audience: players of non-computer tabletop war games played with elaborate scale model figures and fields. But the blog is fun to read even if you wouldn't know a 15mm from a hole in the ground. Periods other than the Civil War are covered here and actually a computer game or two occasionally merits a post as well.

Civil War Battles and Battlefields   (NEW)

Steven Mynes of Sykesville, MD is the blogger here, and the focus of the site is pretty self-explanatory from the title. As might be expected from his location, the battlefields explored are heavily, although not exclusively, Eastern Theater locations in the Maryland/Virginia region. (A recent post at the time of this review was of a book about Wilson's Creek, so the westerly battlefields are not entirely ignored.) A Blogger based site, the comments regrettably allow only holders of Google/Blogger accounts or the (badly misnamed) "OpenID" system to use it.

Civil War Bookshelf

Dmitri Rotov has a site which is almost impossible to categorize. He reads and has read. Widely. Then he thinks, and then he writes (activities which, alas, do not always occur together or in that order.)  He doesn't allow comments, and every so often explains why, and why he doesn't think other sites should either. You will probably not agree with his reasoning. He almost certainly doesn't care.

CivilWarCavalry.com

Eric Wittenberg writes about Cavalry, primarily Union, with a heavy concentration in recent years on operations in and around, and before and after, Gettysburg. The occasional post on politics, Judaism and baseball will be featured, and the subject of amateur- versus professional historians is a frequent subject of discussion.

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