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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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