Hat tip

... to author Kenneth Noe for this link. Myself, I would lose my mind trying to teach ACW history to young people.

New Boyd exegesis

Chet Richards reviews a new entirely theoretical analysis of John Boyd's work - no distracting biography or narrative elements here.

Readers of this blog know that I use Boydian constructs to locate the present-day U.S. Army in the Civil War in terms of its culture. Have a look at Richards' review.

A bridge too far for Stonewall (1/3)

[This post has been revised on 1/16/07. Revisions are in brackets.]

Am rather disoriented by this news story - the reporter jumbled a lot of unfamiliar information together producing a messy recap. The newspaper's capsule history reads:

... Jackson's forces drove Union soldiers out of Bath, Va., shelled Hancock, Md., and marched on Romney, Va. Thanks to his surprise attacks in January 1862, Jackson met with success, driving out Union soldiers and cutting off their supply lines by briefly controlling the Potomac River, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Later that month, Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered Jackson's men out of Romney after some of Jackson's soldiers complained of harsh conditions to Davis.

[The actual events are these, allowing for a little CWBN spin: Jackson advanced on and succeeded in occupying Bath, on the Va. side of the Potomac. That's what "driving out Union soldiers" refers to. In fact, they were not driven, they set up a defense on the Maryland side of the river before he arrived. After Frederick Lander (photo, right) defeated Jackson's attempts to cross at Hancock, his Union pursuit with an inferior force caught up with and mauled the Rebel rear guard and supply wagons. The retreating Jackson eventually escaped Lander and occupied an abandoned Union post at Romney. (Romney had been the object of a campaign proposed by Jackson in November, but his plans had gone terribly wrong.) Jackson then split his forces. Loring's Army of the Northwest was ordered out of amentity-free Romney after Jackson's army had gone into comfortable winter quarters at Winchester. Lander immediately occupied the place, again with an inferior force.]

May I propose a simpler way of saying this: Jackson advanced on the B and O railroad; his crossing of the Potomac was defeated by Frederick Lander; Lander launched a counteroffensive routing Jackson's men; Jackson then [raced] Lander for a town called Romney in Jackson's own rear area. [It became Jackson's rear area after he left Winchester and arrived at Bath. At that point Romney and Winchester were both in his rear area. Romney was also the eastern edge of Rosecrans' domain.]

[Wikipedia timeline deleted.]

And yet, this is not the "Hancock campaign," or the "B&O Campaign," much less "the Retreat to Winchester," - it is the "Romney Campaign," Romney being a secondary objective after the railroad campaign fails. Romney is designated winter quarters for Loring's brigades.

Is there an "Alexandria Campaign" named for federal soldiers placed into winter quarters there? How do you make this campaign so Jackson-centric, without portraying it as a series of failures culminating in resignation of his commission? He is defeated. He retreats. He evacuates winter quarters. He resigns his commission.

[I want to explore the Jackson-centricity and the Romney naming in my next post.]

Note [in most histories] the Union side seems to be a leaderless collection of odds and ends. The federals are maguffins, plot devices, literary elements needed to play off the main (Jackson) story. [More on this next.]

A few notes from Beatie on this in the next post.

***

p.s. Brett Schulte on Rankin's book on the "Romney Campaign" here. "The book traces Jackson's unsuccessful campaign to take back some of the northwestern Virginia counties wrested away by George McClellan late in 1861." "... the troops involved came out of it with their confidence in their commander greatly shaken..." In Brett's synopsis, the aim of the "campaign" is Romney, with detours to Bath and Hancock.

p.p.s. Will Keene writes to say "Jackson's correspondence during December 1861 makes it clear that Romney was a primary target. " He does not like the characterization of Romney as being in Jackson's rear, either. More on this next.

Rick Beard makes a move

Motionless as a spider on a web, the mysterious ALPLM chieftain Rick Beard has finally made a move. If this is his move.

Kay Smith has been chosen to lead the bicentennial celebrations in Illinois. Not enough of her background is disclosed here to tell us if she is a political hack or a competent professional.

For the prospective author

Pick your literary agent.

Resonance on the Nile (1/3)

Got into a funny mood Friday and decided to watch Khartoum. Wanted to see how Twelver doctrines would be managed by Hollywood in 1966. (A taste or two of scotch suggested this might be fun research.) Wonderful surprise: streams of Civil War associations flowing through most every Cineramic scene.

In the first place there is the Garnet Wolseley character. Wolseley was probably the highest ranking foreigner to extensively analyze the ACW. He was personal friends with Lee, whom he idolized, and he spent time with all of Lee's generals as well as McClellan. An intense admirer of Jacksonian dash, his relief of Khartoum was portrayed in the film as mixture of time-wasting over-preparation mixed with a professionalism that embraced the political treachery of his civilian superiors.

Next, there is the Prime Minister Gladstone character, portrayed as a blend of Lincolnian populism and Stantonish doubledealing. The real Gladstone we remember as a hawk favoring intervention in the ACW and author of the phrase, Jeff Davis had "made a nation." In the film, this Gladstone lives out the old charges that Lincoln held back McClellan by holding back the relief of Khartoum with politically expedient instructions to Wolseley.

At the center of the film is the Charles "Chinese" Gordon character (right), who made his name at the head of "The Ever Victorious Army." This Ever Victorious Army served the Manchus and was recruited, trained, fought, and it earned its name under the greatest American Civil War general who never was, Frederick Townsend Ward, killed leading an attack on September 22nd 1862. That Gordon could fill Ward's shoes "made him" in the publicity sense. (By the way, try matching the record of your favorit ACW division against that of the "Ever Victorious" for an eye opening experience.)

Gordon's Civil War connection was with William Wing Loring. Egypt had colonized the Sudan and Gordon served Egypt as governor there at the same time that Loring served Egypt as its chief general. Both men were caught up in the Ethiopian invasion of Egypt in 1875; Gordon, on a peace mission was imprisoned, resigning his post on release. Loring was sacked after a military disaster at the hands of the Ethiopians.

The film starts 10 years after the Loring/Gordon windup. The Gordon character is sent on an impossible mission with no resources and total responsibility. On screen he is given to less bombast than the real item. He drinks brandy, reads the Bible, drinks brandy, prays, drinks brandy, takes some extravagant risk, etc. It's a nice rythm that lasts until his head is placed on a stick. Speeches, Gordon has none. He does get into dueling monologues with the Hidden One.

The Mahdi character (right) is over the top, but Olivier somehow makes us accept him after a few scenes. He has to be compelling and viable in terms of viewer interest while being merciless, self-absorbed, prickly, unstable, and prone to rhetoric as fresh as today's Jihadi websites. A prescient portrayal, this is the one major character who has no connection with the ACW. His connection to pop history is worth a word, however.

In the 1950s and '60s accounts of the Mahdi's revolt, pop historians (as always) were obsessed about troubling readers with detail; they avoided their duty to explain how a Shi'ite Twelfth Imam or Hidden Imam revolt would break out in in Sunni Sudan, applying a misleading emphasis on the Mahdi's "dervish" props (e.g., patched cloaks). Applying a "dervish" label to the movement solves a literary problem as dervishes are exotics populating both sides of the Muslim divide.

I still don't know how a Twelver revolt started there, but at least Khartoum, the movie, strips away every vestige of this historians' expedient. That there are other liberties taken in the film - well, I'm willing to grant those in exchange for purging the word "dervish." The film simply presents the Mahdi character "as he is" - mysterious. Good enough.

This seems like the time to visit Wolseley's comments on the Civil War and match them against his Khartoum expedition leadership. Will post on that soon.

The slave quilt code fracas

In the nearly 10 years that Civil War Book News has been running (it's being revamped as you read this), one book has towered over all others in sales. That book is Hidden in Plain View, a sui generis work conveying to the public the claims of a specific woman about her family history and heritage.

The story includes a quilting communication code described by a certain Ms. Williams of South Carolina, who characterized it as passed down from slavery times. The code contains escape information and is coherent, specific and detailed enough to be analyzable. Indeed, the NSA actually had an exhibit based on the data:

... 17 patterns are thought to have been used in the secret slave quilt codes. They ranged from patterns relating advice, such as the Flying Geese, to others that sent direct messages. The slaves memorized a poem that listed each of the different patterns.

The presentation of this information is literary and resembles the wonderful anthropological work of Richard and Sally Price during the 1990s. This is what you do with a single source of information.

The authors of Hidden in Plain View thus delivered to historians a starting point for some potentially very interesting research. But all I see around me is historians behaving badly.

My first clue appeared in Kevin Levin's blog - Kevin says he knows nothing about the matter but characterizes the underlying material as "myth" and "nonsense"apparently on the strength of postings made by Ralph Luker. Looking up Kevin's link to Luker I see one post tangentially addressing the matter. The strongest part says,

... the UNLV faculty member, Donovan Conley, ignored the advice of historians, such as David Blight, and allowed his student, Theodore Ransaw, to perpetuate the quilt/code myth in a thesis, "Points of Contact: Nineteenth Century Visual Rhetoric of the Underground Railroad."

This has the makings of a good argument against a lad's thesis but can hardly address the slave quilt coding issue. Consider the underpinnings in this quote: "He's [the student is] discovering an inherent problem with the project: the lack of primary research materials,"

I laughed when I read that.

Hidden in Plain View created a single historical record by documenting what purports to be one family's oral tradition. The monkey was placed on our backs to conduct more interviews and collect additional folklore - not to muck around in archives looking for notarized accounts of secret codes and then petulantly declaring - "No corroboration, must be lies."

A particularly curious post on this matter was put up by Oscar Chamberlain at HNN, worth your notice: "It has a superficial plausibility, unless one knows enough about quilt making to immediately be dubious." No it is deeply plausible because this purported oral tradition is rich in detail. It requires nothing in the way of quilt making knowledge.

This debunker gets close to transacting some real business when writing: "A key phrase in Ozella Williams's Quilt Code is Double Wedding Rings, but that quilt pattern was invented in the 1920s." Good. We're getting somewhere. But to complete our job we need to doublecheck our belief that it dates from the 1920s while keeping in mind that 100-year-old oral traditions will accrete neologisms and other asynchronous material.

The main problem comes down to failure in historical research following up Hidden in Plain View. And that is not the authors' problem. I note that many more purported oral traditions have turned up since but that they fail to correlate exactly to the code in Hidden and that this is held up by historians as a case against slave coding in quilts. How absurd.

The most comprehensive critical recap of the literature appears here. Notice that stories are still being told. Data is being collected. The only sensible debunking possible is claim-by-claim based on the internal integrity of the material. Meanwhile if you correlate different oral traditions and get differences, this only challenges the idea of a universal coding scheme not multiple or parallel traditions.

At the very least, apart from any code itself, you have as basis for study the question of whether there is an oral tradition for the existence of slave quilt coding.

The safest thing one can say is that not enough material has been collected and therefore that its historical interpretation is premature.

It may even be possible that people volunteering coding legends are false memory cases like alien abductees... but that has to be tested one storyteller at a time.

What on earth must anthropolgists think, looking at this display of history-as-social-science, I wonder.

A new ACW blog

This one has a Virginia flavor. And author Richard Williams is posting at a solid clip.

See here for a post about the mass evictions from the Valley to form the national park - 2,800 people disposessed by force in a stunning prelude to Kelo.

The jig is up when your own government says of you "... the people who inhabited these mountains were living as animals and needed to be civilized."

More on Jim Lane's hair

"Lane was trying to convey an image of a hard-working congressman, more concerned with freeing the slaves than controlling his locks."

Hmmmm.

Doings at "Civil Warriors"

Very interesting doings at "Civil Warriors," worth a couple of comments at least.

On the content side
Ethan Rafuse asks "how long, if ever, does it take for historical opinion on an aspect of the Civil War to change?" I have a short answer. Rafuse, Harsh, Reese, and Beatie have written books that future writers must address or appear foolish. Change happens from here on out. When some Taaffe plunges forward while ignoring Rafuse, Harsh, Beatie, and Reese, then bloggers and the new media step in - the empowered reader ladles out ridicule, catalogs the errors of ommission and suppression, and slings a few choice words in earshot of publishers.

(BTW, I was at a book signing five years ago in which the author practically begged us to put in a good comment on Amazon for him since his publishers read comments and the postings were running against him.)

On a similar note, a friend just received a letter from a marquee brand author (Centennialist) who had been surfing his website; the author felt threatened enough to send a letter asking that a certain piece of documentary evidence (presented in image form) be rationalized away (or suppressed). It was damaging to the name brand author's work. My friend answered on the lines of, "So write a rebuttal yourself." Change is coming.

Rafuse wittily posts more on the subject here. Mark Grimsley chimes in with this excellent post, which takes me to the next point.

On the media side
Mark has written an optimal post; it has an anecdote, historiography, and some fun cross-disciplinary analysis while referencing (dialog style) Rafuse's earlier blog entry. But if you look to the bottom of the post, you get some fairly long-form comments. They ruin the spell of the entry.

The effect is worse on Ethan's charming post: the comments are staccato outbursts that startle the reader out of a reverie the author has created.

My blog's comments function stays off. That's a New Year's resolution I think I can keep.

(Hat tip to Harry for pointing me at this series.)

The chairman as re-enactor

A certain elderly gentleman recently passed away and we know he is a relic of olden days because he was both the history department chair at a college and a Civil War re-enactor. When will that happen again?

Secondary sources

Thanks to J. David Petruzzi for so well understanding my position on ACW narrative.

The tech breakthrough of 2007

Coming to a library near you this year: print-on-demand book vending machines. No kidding!

If the machine acts like an ATM, calling a databank and downloading a file, the number of titles available could be enormous.

Another hat tip to POD-DY Mouth.

Dynamic pricing at Amazon

Those $$$ increases applied to "save for later" are not coming from publishers.

Hat tip: POD-DY Mouth.

Buford reminds us

One of the more paradoxical Centennial constructs is that McClellan was “complex” while his situation was simple, requiring of him choices so clear that the most ignorant reader chafes at his “failures.” This helps define a “McClellan problem” in the narrator’s “plot” – one which the writer helpfully fixes by eventually inserting a “simple” Grant character into that “simple” context. Simple matches simple and all those decisions now flow into the resolution of the Civil War.

Naturally this makes N.B. Buford’s appointment to command the AoP a problem – something to keep at arm’s length. We had speculated here about the Buford offer reported by Rafuse. Why was it vetted with Orville Browning? Now, Russel Beatie tells us in his forthcoming book that it was Stanton who suggested to Orville Browning that the AoP be given to Napoleon Buford. The source is a Browning diary entry on April 2, 1862. Leave it to Rafuse and Beatie to share this kind of information.

I wish they had spent more time on the matter, however, because one cannot just give the reader stuff like this and trust him to recognize and enjoy it. The reader’s framework has been shaped by 50 years of seamless Centennial storytelling from which all distractions (context) have been carefully snipped.

We can fix that right here, though.

Stanton’s offer was delivered to Browning in this way: “If you will propose to the President…I will second the appointment.” Not only is the offer significant in its form and significant because it so closely follows Stanton’s failure to recruit Ethan Hitchcock for the job, but the date itself also tells much.

Within the “complex McClellan” construct is a meme that GBM as army commander did himself out of a simple job by wearing down the easy goodwill of Lincoln and Stanton. As AoP commander, he provoked their frustration and earned their wrath.

Baldy Smith (no less) felt forced to confront this meme – embedded like most Centennial "insights" in the Republican Party press of that day - as soon as McClellan’s obituaries were published. He wrote a long letter-to-the-editor of a paper contradicting the idea that Stanton was Mac’s friend until Mac earned his enmity on the field. It’s a good letter and I’ll run it here soon. Its two main points will serve us here. Smith says: (1) McClellan knew he was a dead man walking before the sealift but (2) He was confident he could win the victories that would sideline all attacks.

I say this to establish McClellan’s motives while operating under what we might agree were impossible conditions. Put it another way: just as Grant told Schofield he would not be McClellanized by Lincoln or Stanton in 1864, McClellan here told Smith he would essentially “Grantify” himself against attacks from Lincoln and Stanton in 1862.

This Buford matter is unhelpful to a second Centennial meme - that Stanton and Lincoln were a cooperative and effective team. Note that Stanton, the president’s advisor, is here smuggling his advice to Lincoln through the agency of a cutout whom he perceives to be a close friend of the president. Look Browning, Buford will be your idea and I’ll second it.

Now, consider that McClellan’s March 11 demotion was incomplete - that being fired from general-in-chief was only part of the larger business, the other half not being finished before the water movement began. The demotion order was composed the day of a fiery speech to the cabinet in which Stanton denounced his "great ignorance, negligence, and lack of order and subordination - and reckless extravagance." On the 15th, Hitchcock paraded before Lincoln as potential commander of the AoP – he recorded, with horror, Lincoln’s reference to “the traitor, McClellan.” And to his credit he refused the position. This is another problem for Centennial memes, hence its long habitation in the trash bin.

A Congressional move to fire McClellan altogether was barely sidetracked on March 17th, five days after GBM learned he has lost his top job, two days after Hitchcock refused the AoP for the last time and 16 days before Stanton solicited Browning for Buford.

If we assume Stanton was no fool, it tells us something that he believed about Lincoln, that as of April 2nd, the day after McClellan personally set sail, Lincoln might still be willing to fire McClellan from his AoP command.

Not that he would leave the president to make up his own mind.

For on this same April 2nd, the Radical general Wadsworth responded to a Stanton inquiry that the capital was not sufficiently protected. Stanton told Lincoln about it on the second. And Lincoln then (April 3) put the freeze on the embarkation of McDowell and the bulk of McClellan’s cavalry. In the mood contrived for him, who knows how he might have responded to "Browning's" suggestions regarding Buford.

So we find Stanton encircling Lincoln with third-party reports and with third-party candidates for command while Congress moves to resolve McClellan be fired.

No wonder some say that civil war can be complicated. The adventures of Napoleon B. Buford are a reminder of that.

(More on NBB via Eric Wittenberg here.)

"An acute expert problem" in ACW history

Nicholas Taleb is not just a daring probability theorist, he understands our core problems in the last 50 years of Civil War history:

Some academic circles can suffer from an acute expert problem producing cosmetic but fake knowledge, particularly in narrative disciplines...

Narrative discipline: discipline that consists in fitting a convincing and well-sounding story to the past (history, statistics, political science). Opposed to experimental discipline ...

Narrative fallacy: our need to fit a story or pattern to a series of connected or disconnected facts.

Retrospective distortion: Examining past events without adjusting for the forward passage of time. It leads to the illusion of posterior predictability.

It is easier to predict how an ice cube would melt into a puddle than, looking at a puddle, to guess the shape of the ice cube that may have caused it. This makes narrative disciplines and accounts (such as histories) suspicious.

Hat tip to John Robb.

A contagion spread by fans (cont.)

Out of his own pocket, a developer financed a Civil War marker at his shopping center. But he couldn't see past his own fannishness.

The passing shoppers have some dim idea that Eisenhower once led his Leathernecks over yon swale to attack Cochise in the battle of Saipan. They could be helped a little by an inscription that says, "In [year], Union Army [name] marched past this point on its way to [insert historically intelligible destiny here]."

They are hardly prepared for the outbreak of military history the marker delivers: "In the winter of 1862-1863 following the Battle of Fredericksburg, Col. Edward Harland's Union brigade camped on this site. Six infantry regiments comprised the brigade: the 4th Rhode Island and the 8, 11, 15, 16 and 21st Connecticut. The brigade had been held in reserve at Fredericksburg and took just 40 casualties there, many from Union artillery shells that exploded prematurely overhead."

As a colleague once persisted, "Rhode Island: that's part of New York, right?"

I suppose there's even more on the plaque but as my daughter would say, this is already "Way too much information, Dad."

Contagion spread by fans

One legacy of 50 years of Centennial nonfiction has been a deformed readership - deformed in its sensibilities.

The Civil War reader of pop narratives turns her hand to fiction and evokes this:

... the novel's essential weakness lies in the characters, who tend to stand out like monuments, especially the gruff, cigar-chewing Sherman and the swashbuckling brigade commander Thomas Ransom. They are beyond criticism, remaining largely unchallenged and unknown, alienated from the reader by their own legendary status.

As they would be in any Civil War nonfiction you would pick up. Old wine in new bottles.

It is as if the author's personal enthusiasm for these historical figures has blinded her to the emotional needs of the reader.

In the historical "literature" she reads now, they have already been assigned their roles and status - she dare not tamper with them. The result is, "a novel ill at ease with its own material"

Using the new publishing tech

This is what print-on-demand (and digital publishing) is for:

* Multi-year, complex research projects, rich in data,
* Total authorial control over production and design,
* Aimed at a pre-existing audiences.

For this, therefore, to be brought out by a conventional publisher is preposterous.

Index, 2003-2006 (version 1.0)

Index to series appears at the bottom of the post.

AHA (see also Hoffer)
10/3/2003, 11/19/04, 1/7/05, 1/18/05, 2/8/05, 3/10/05, 3/11/05, 4/29/05

ALPLM
9/19/03, 6/24/04, 7/8/04, 7/16/04, 7/26/04, 10/27/04, 12/1/04, 12/27/04, 1/4/05, 1/20/05, 3/28/05, 4/11/05, 4/12/05, 4/18/05, 4/19/05, 4/26/05, 4/28/05, 5/19/05, 6/24/05, 7/7/05, 7/14/05, 8/15/05, 10/11/05, 12/11/06

ALPLM and Richard Norton Smith
9/30/06, 10/6/03, 10/9/03, 10/10/03, 11/26/03, 12/18/03, 2/4/04, 2/6/04, 2/10/04, 2/12/04, 3/1/04, 3/17/04, 3/18/04, 3/22/04, 4/14/04, 6/4/04, 6/15/04, 8/24/04, 10/6/04, 12/1/04, 2/14/05, 2/18/05, 12/6/05, 2/16/06, 2/17/06

ALPLM and Rick Beard
10/30/06, 10/31/06, 11/25/06, 12/18/06

APSA
12/16/05

Absenteeism (Rebel)
12/26/03, 6/29/06, 7/3/06

Absenteeism (Union, see also “Numbers and Losses”)
11/17/03, 6/2/04

Albert (chess master)
10/26/04

Alito (jurist)
1/12/06

American Heritage (magazine)
9/20/05, 6/23/06, 7/4/06

Aubrecht (blogger)
2/3/06, 2/14/06,

Ayers (author)
8/19/05, 9/16/05, 10/5/05, 10/17/05, 11/2/05, 1/20/06, 2/3/06, 4/3/06

Ball’s Bluff (battle)
1/20/06

Banks (general)
5/31/06

Baseball - ACW
3/31/05, 4/4/05, 5/17/05

Battlefield guides
9/1/03

Baudrillard (philosopher)
10/14/04, 10/15/04, 10/18/04, 2/11/05, 9/8/05

Bearss (author)
8/17/05

Beatie (author)
10/8/03, 11/10/04, 11/11/04, 1/4/05, 1/5/05, 3/22/05, 3/30/05, 3/31/05, 4/6/05, 4/28/05, 5/9/05, 9/12/05, 10/18/05, 4/14/06, 5/17/06, 6/28/06, 8/12/06, 8/18/06, 9/17/06, 10/12/06, 11/03/06, 11/19/06, 12/19/06

Benko (chess master)
11/18/05, 11/21/05

Bierce (author)
6/9/04, 1/10/05, 5/16/05

Bloch
11/11/03

Blogs of the ACW
5/21/04, 12/6/04, 2/1/05, 2/24/05, 3/11/05, 3/17/05, 6/27/05, 9/6/05, 10/7/05, 11/30/05, 1/16/06, 3/13/06, 3/21/06, 5/19/06, 7/17/06, 9/21/06, 9/25/06, 10/12/06, 11/10/06, 11/14/06, 11/17/06, 12/20/06

Blunt (general)
12/11/05, 12/12/05

Bonekemper (author)
5/12/04, 8/22/05, 4/18/06

Boritt (author)
2/16/04, 10/30/06, 12/5/06

Boyd (military theorist)
6/28/04, 10/1/04, 5/6/05, 6/6/05, 7/8/05

Brady (photographer)
1/23/06, 10/18/06

Brautigan (author)
1/20/06,

Brooks (author)
4/18/06, 4/20/06

Brooksher (author)
5/9/06, 5/22/06

Brown (author)
7/11/05

Brown (revolutionary)
11/25/03, 8/18/04

Buchanan (president)
5/5/05, 7/26/05

Buchanan’s “Public Man”
7/26/05

Buell (author)
9/21/05

Buford N (general)
10/13/05, 10/14/05

Bundy (author)
2/27/06

Bunting (author)
11/24/04, 8/22/05, 4/18/06

Burns (TV producer)
9/16/05, 10/5/05, 10/27/06

Burnside (general, see also “Sprague”)
11/5/03, 1/29/04, 2/4/04, 12/6/04, 2/1/05, 8/2/05

Burton (author)
7/4/06

Butler (general, see also Robertson)
11/10/04, 8/4/05, 1/4/06, 10/18/06

Butterfield (philosopher)
9/26/05, 9/27/05

Butternut & Blue (publisher)
10/7/03

CSA (movie)
12/3/03, 3/2/05, 9/16/05, 10/10/05, 8/2/06, 10/1/06

C-SPAN
8/16/04

CVBT
12/22/05,

CWPT
3/2/04, 3/3/04, 3/4/04, 3/5/04, 3/6/04, 3/7/04, 3/10/04, 3/16/04, 4/6/04, 4/7/04, 4/8/04, 6/4/04, 8/13/04, 9/22/04, 9/24/04, 1/11/05, 1/12/05, 2/22/05, 2/24/05, 2/25/05, 3/17/05, 4/1/05, 4/27/05, 4/29/05, 5/5/05, 11/15/05, 12/12/05, 12/30/05, 1/31/06, 2/15/06, 2/21/06, 3/1/06, 3/8/06, 6/21/06, 9/29/06

Carhart (author)
4/28/05, 11/22/52

Catton (author)
9/22/04, 11/11/04, 12/13/04, 12/14/04, 4/29/05, 5/5/05, 3/16/06, 5/31/06

Causes of the ACW
12/9/03

Cavalry doctrine (see also series)
1/17/05, 1/4/06, 8/28/06

Centennialism (also Nevins, Catton, Williams, McPherson, et al)
9/10/03, 9/12/03, 4/12/05, 1/20/06, 6/20/06, 7/4/06

Chamberlain (general)
2/4/04, 6/3/06

Cheney (veep)
1/26/04, 5/13/04

Citations, electronic media
4/7/06, 9/7/06

Clark (politician) as McClellan
10/1/03, 10/2/03, 10/28/03, 3/30/04, 11/2/04, 8/24/05

Clay (Whig)
6/11/04

Clemens (author)
4/22/04, 5/11/05

Cline (blogger)
9/3/03, 9/4/03, 9/22/04, 5/25/05

Clinton (author)
11/22/05

Cold Mountain (movie)
10/30/03, 12/11/03, 12/16/03, 12/17/03, 12/18/03, 12/21/03, 12/24/03, 12/25/03, 12/29/03, 2/6/04, 2/10/04

Collier (author)
7/6/04

Comments, blog
4/28/06

Comte de Paris, diary
9/8/06

Confederate flags
10/14/03, 11/25/03, 12/4/03, 2/24/04, 8/26/04, 9/3/04, 9/7/04

Conflicts of interest (authors)
2/25/04, 2/26/04, 2/27/04

Connelly (author)
5/18/06, 6/27/06, 6/28/06, 11/3/06

Constitution (“pact with hell”)
9/29/05

Contingency, historical
4/14/05, 4/16/05, 1/23/06, 1/24/06, 2/9/06

Cormack (blogger)
5/24/05, 7/8/05, 9/19/05

Cotton trading (illegal, see also Sprague, Chase, McDowell)
5/19/04, 6/22/04, 7/21/05, 9/12/06

Cramer (blogger)
10/5/05

Crampton’s Gap (see also Reese)
10/6/03, 1/14/04, 3/30/04, 4/30/04, 8/25/05, 12/8/04, 1/6/05, 1/20/05, 2/14/05, 2/15/05, 2/16/05, 6/13/05, 12/15/05, 1/6/09, 1/13/06, 1/18/06

Crane (author)
2/18/04

Cricket (American game)
8/23/05

Crimean War (see also Moten and “Cavalry Doctrine” series)
4/21/04

Cross (bolgger)
9/30/05

Cult of celebrity
10/23/03

Custer (general)
4/11/05

Dail (blogger)
3/27/06, 9/21/06

Darien (GA)
5/29/06, 5/30/06

Davis (author)
12/21/04, 5/25/05, 3/1/06, 8/7/06

Davis (secwar, see also series on “Cavalry Doctrine”)
1/17/05, 1/19/05, 8/28/06, 8/30/06

Davis (rebel)
9/7/05, 9/8/05

Decoration Day
5/31/04, 5/30/05

Denikin (general)
10/4/05

Dennison (governor)
11/24/03,

Desjardin (author)
12/8/03, 9/19/05, 10/24/05, 11/29/05

Detzer (author)
11/11/04, 8/7/06, 10/8/06

Dirck (blogger)
2/13/06

Doctorow (author)
8/17/05, 9/21/05, 4/17/06

Donald (author)
12/16/03, 3/26/04, 5/3/04, 9/12/05, 9/16/05, 5/5/06

Donizetti (composer, see also “Music”)
11/16/04

Doubleday (general)
8/24/06

Downey (blogger)
4/1/06, 8/30/06, 9/8/06, 9/22/06, 10/30/06

Economics and business of ACW
12/7/04, 7/13/05, 7/24/06, 7/31/06

Eicher (author)
8/11/05, 4/24/06

Eicher and Eicher (authors)
12/12/05, 2/7/06,

Emerson and Sumner
1/3/06

Ericsson (naval architect)
9/26/05

Fishel (author)
10/31/06

Fischer (author)
12/16/03, 9/15/04, 9/16/04, 9/17/04, 9/20/04, 9/21/04, 12/20/04, 8/25/05

Fitness
9/20/05, 9/30/05

Fleming (author)
6/28/04, 7/13/04

Foote (author)
11/25/03, 11/11/04, 12/9/04, 5/17/05, 6/29/05, 6/30/05, 7/13/05, 7/18/05, 7/21/05, 7/25/05, 8/5/05, 8/16/05, 9/29/05, 4/4/06

Ford’s Theatre
6/25/04

Franco-Prussian War
2/4/04

Franklin (general – see also Snell)
6/30/06

Fulgham (author)
10/12/05

Gallagher (author)
11/20/03, 2/9/04, 3/12/04, 7/23/04, 12/21/04, 3/28/05, 4/11/05, 4/27/05, 8/5/05, 9/12/05, 6/11/06, 7/26/06

Garfield (president)
1/21/05, 8/12/05

Gettysburg (address)
11/8/06, 11/9/06

Gettysburg (casino)
5/2/05, 5/16/05, 5/31/05, 10/5/05, 11/8/05, 4/6/06, 12/21/06

Gettysburg (movie)
7/30/04, 6/10/05

Ghosts
10/31/03

Gingrich and Forstchen (authors)
6/23/04, 7/5/04, 8/10/05, 4/20/06

Glasgow (author)
12/1/03

Glory (movie)
7/30/04

Gods and Generals (movie)
7/30/04

Goodwin (author)
9/20/04, 1/24/05, 7/12/05, 8/03/05, 8/19/05, 9/12/05, 9/30/05, 10/20/05, 10/25/05, 11/1/05, 11/16/05, 11/18/05, 11/28/05, 2/13/06

Goodwin (movie)
6/23/05, 7/12/05

Goss (author)
8/28/03, 9/21/03, 5/7/04, 12/17/04

Grant (general)
5/13/04, 9/20/04, 9/29/04, 11/24/04, 11/29/04, 2/3/05, 4/27/05, 5/2/05, 5/3/05, 5/5/05, 8/19/05, 9/14/05, 9/30/05, 1/2/06, 5/31/06, 12/19/06

Graves (author)
9/21/04, 9/22/04

Griffith (author)
2/9/06

Grimsley (author)
4/8/04, 8/11/04, 2/2/05, 2/3/05, 2/23/05, 2/24/05, 3/11/05, 3/17/05, 5/3/05, 5/20/05, 7/14/05, 8/4/05, 8/16/05, 8/18/05, 8/25/05, 9/9/05, 9/15/05, 11/6/05, 3/21/06, 5/31/06, 9/8/06, 10/12/06, 10/22/06, 11/14/06, 11/17/06

Grombowicz (author)
2/10/05, 2/11/05

Guelzo (author)
5/20/04, 6/3/04, 12/9/04, 4/22/05

Hackworth (military analyst)
5/23/05

Hagerman (author)
11/7/05

Hagmaier (blogger)
5/24/05, 5/27/05, 6/1/05, 6/9/05, 7/20/05, 2/9/06, 2/10/06,

Halleck (general: see also “Marszalek”)
11/30/04, 6/1/05, 6/2/05, 6/3/05, 6/6/05, 6/16/05

Handlin (historian)
1/23/06

Hanson (author)
4/28/04

Hardeee (general)
8/30/06

Harsh (author)
4/15/05, 5/2/05, 6/28/06, 10/31/06

Hartwig (historian)
8/26/04

Hats (military)
12/11/05, 12/14/05

Hattaway (author)
3/15/04, 4/22/04, 2/22/05, 8/9/06, 12/4/06

Heintzelman (general)
8/12/06, 9/15/06

Helmets (McClellan)
3/9/05

Helmets (McDowell, see also helmet series)
9/11/06

Hennessy (historian)
6/30/04, 3/28/05, 7/8/05, 9/13/06

Heritage tourism
10/24/03, 10/29/03, 10/30/03, 11/05, 11/19/03, 12/12/03, 1/28/04, 1/30/04, 2/3/04, 3/16/04, 3/19/04, 3/21/04, 3/30/04, 4/9/04, 4/29/04, 7/1/04, 8/20/04, 10/18/04, 2/25/05, 3/8/05, 3/10/05, 4/20/05, 5/16/05, 5/18/05, 9/22/05, 12/1/05, 6/21/06, 7/16/06, 7/18/06, 8/4/06, 8/8/06, 8/16/06, 10/4/06, 12/6/06, 12/11/06, 12/22/06

Hicks (author)
8/29/05, 8/30/05

Hindemith (composer)
4/29/04

Historical markers
9/11/03

Historical time
2/19/04, 10/11/06

History (curriculum)
12/9/03, 1/26/04, 3/26/04, 4/14/04, 5/14/04, 10/15/04, 3/15/05, 5/18/05, 6/8/05, 5/16/06, 12/1/06

History (ethics)
10/3/2003, 3/10/05, 3/11/05, 3/17/05

History and evidence
10/21/03, 6/14/04, 6/15/04, 1/27/05

History via punditry
9/8/2003, 8/18/05, 8/23/05, 8/24/05, 7/17/06, 12/27/06

Hobsbawm (author)
6/5/06, 6/6/06

Hoffer (author)
9/20/04, 10/25/04, 11/15/04, 11/19/04, 12/30/04, 2/1/05, 5/3/05

Hood (general)
11/17/04, 5/31/06, 10/17/06

Howard (general)
5/26/06, 5/27/06

Hyperreality
See Baudrillard

Ingram (wholesaler)
12/10/04, 8/18/05,

“Iron Brigade”
1/22/04

Ironclads
11/4/03, 3/22/05, 3/24/05, 5/3/05, 6/8/05

Jack (ACW ripper)
7/26/04

Jaffa (author)
2/16/04, 5/20/05

James (thief)
9/13/04

Johnson (president)
12/28/04

Johnston J (general, see also “Cavalry Doctrine”)
8/28/06, 8/30/06, 10/8/06, 10/31/06

Jomini vs. Clausewitz
3/29/04, 12/2/05, 12/6/05

Jones (author)
11/5/04, 2/22/05, 4/15/05, 8/9/06, 11/03/06

Juneteenth
1/2/04, 6/22/04

Kearny (general, see also Styple)
10/17/06, 11/9/06

Keegan (author)
11/28/03

Kelly (sculptor)
See Styple

Keyes (general)
8/18/06

Keyes (politician)
8/23/04

Koepke (blogger)
9/9/05

Korda (author)
11/24/04, 7/15/05, 8/22/05, 4/18/06

Lander (general)
1/5/05

Larabee (author)
8/18/05, 9/22/05, 1/5/06

Lasker (chess master)
5/18/06

Last Full Measure (movie)
7/30/04, 10/6/04, 7/24/06

Last Samurai (movie)
11/10/03, 12/5/03

Law and Supreme Court
10/27/03, 11/3/03, 2/17/04

Le Carre (author)
12/21/05

Lee (general)
5/12/04, 8/2/04, 9/22/04, 11/9/04, 10/14/05, 1/20/06, 10/31/06

Leech (author)
2/4/05, 3/14/05

Lehrman (philanthropist)
8/24/04

Levin (blogger)
11/30/05, 1/16/06, 2/8/06, 4/3/06, 4/4/06, 10/31/06

Limbaugh (radio host – see also “Clark”)
8/24/05

Lincoln (advertising)
1/28/04, 2/22/05, 9/12/06, 9/15/06

Lincoln (assassination)
8/24/04, 12/9/04, 4/5/05, 9/21/05, 1/3/05

Lincoln (corpse)
11/6/03

Lincoln and Declaration (see also “Keyes, politician” and “Constitution”)
8/23/04, 8/24/04

Lincoln (gay)
9/18/03, 12/23/04, 1/18/05, 2/16/05

Lincoln impersonators
1/28/04, 3/23/04

Lincoln Institute
8/24/04

Lincoln (legends)
5/3/05, 10/22/06

Lincoln as Maguffin
1/31/05, 2/7/05, 3/3/05

“Lincoln/McClellan Syndrome”
6/17/05

Lincoln (opponents)
10/13/04, 3/2/05

Lincoln (property, see also series “Social Identity”)
2/14/05

Lincoln (psychology)
9/22/05, 3/27/06, 5/5/06

Lincoln Prize (see also “Borrit”)
2/13/04, 2/13/06, 2/27/06

Lincoln voice recordings/speeches
7/12/04, 7/21/08, 1/12/05

Lincoln (war powers)
7/23/06

Lind (military analyst)
10/1/04, 5/6/05, 7/8/05

Livermore (historian)
See “Numbers and Losses”

Local historians
11/13/03, 11/27/03, 3/31/04, 8/2/06

Longstreet (general)
8/7/06

Loring (general)
9/20/05

Lost Order
7/23/04, 9/22/04, 9/25/04

Lost Cause (see also “Lost Cause” series)
6/5/06, 6/6/06, 6/11/06

Lowry (author)
10/27/03, 2/17/04, 1/25/06

Lukacs (author)
4/16/04

Luker (historian)
8/4/05, 10/5/05

Mandelbrot (mathematician)
3/23/05, 4/15/05

Marquand (author)
8/1/06

Marvel (author)
4/28/04, 9/4/06, 11/14/06, 11/17/06

Marszalek (author)
11/30/04, 6/1/05, 6/2/05, 6/16/05

Marx and Engels (revolutionaries)
10/28/03, 6/3/04

Maxwell (filmmaker)
6/9/04, 7/30/04, 10/6/04, 1/20/06, 2/8/06, 3/22/06, 7/24/06, 8/22/06

McClellan, Dr. G
1/2/06

McClellan (lost telegram date)
2/26/04

McClellan and Jackson
5/5/04, 5/10/04

McClellan, Max
1/2/06

McClellan poetry
3/13/04, 3/20/04, 3/27/04, 4/3/04, 4/4/04, 4/10/04, 4/17/04, 4/24/04, 5/1/04, 5/8/04, 5/15/04, 5/22/04, 5/29/04, 6/5/04, 6/12/04, 6/17/04, 6/20/04, 6/26/04, 7/3/04, 7/10/04, 7/17/04, 7/24/04, 7/31/04, 8/8/04, 8/15/04, 8/21/04, 8/28/04, 9/4/04, 9/11/04, 9/18/04, 10/2/04, 10/16/04

“McClellan Rangers”
8/3/05, 8/4/05, 8/8/05

McClellan replacements (notional)
10/13/05, 10/31/05,

McLuhan (media analyst)
1/17/06, 4/4/06

McCullough (author)
9/12/05

McDonald (author)
12/6/04

McDowell (general, see also “Helmets” series)
12/12/05, 12/15/05, 8/9/06, 9/11/06, 9/12/06, 9/13/06, 9/17/06

McDowell (colonel)
9/12/06, 9/13/06

McDowell (paymaster)
See “Cotton Trading”

McFeely (author)
2/23/04, 2/24/04, 8/22/05, 9/12/05

McMurry (author)
5/24/04

McPherson (author)
12/13/04, 12/15/04, 2/23/05, 3/28/05, 5/3/05, 8/29/05, 9/16/05, 10/24/05, 11/2/05, 4/27/06, 6/23/06, 7/4/06, 11/7/06, 12/22/06

McPherson (illustrated Battle Cry)
9/11/03, 11/14/03

McPherson (celebrity)
1/12/2004, 2/9/04, 2/11/04, 2/12/04, 3/15/04, 4/8/04, 4/28/04, 5/21/04, 9/20/04, 10/5/04, 11/11/04, 12/2/04, 12/3/04, 2/15/05, 5/6/05, 6/14/05, 8/1/05, 8/3/05, 8/5/05, 8/8/05, 8/19/05, 8/25/05, 9/15/05, 9/22/05, 10/5/05, 11/22/05, 12/2/05, 12/7/05

Meade (general)
5/31/06

Meigs (general)
6/30/06, 9/13/06

Medicine (ACW)
8/12/05, 11/28/05, 4/24/06

Mexican War vets
2/19/04

Military history
8/11/04, 1/13/05, 9/20/06, 10/12/06, 10/22/06

Military reform (see also Boyd, also series)
6/28/04, 5/6/05, 7/8/05, 9/14/05, 11/28/05, 2/9/06, 6/23/06

Military science
11/3/03, 1/20/04, 7/2/04, 10/1/04, 10/26/04, 11/5/04

Miller R (author)
8/24/04, 8/26/05, 10/20/05, 10/25/05, 12/10/05, 2/24/06, 4/4/06

Von Moeltke (general)
4/26/06

Montgomery (author)
1/3/06

Morningside books
9/17/03, 1/15/06

Morphy (chess master, see also “Scott”)
7/2/4, 9/16/04

Morton (governor)
11/24/03

Mosier (author)
12/13/04, 1/26/05

Moten (author – see “Cavalry Doctrine” series)
9/7/06

Mozart
9/3/04

Mummers
1/2/04, 1/1/05

Music of the ACW
2/20/04, 4/13/04, 4/14/04, 4/18/04, 4/26/04, 5/24/04, 5/25/04, 7/23/04, 9/3/04, 11/16/04, 3/7/05, 3/8/05, 11/1/05, 7/16/06

Muslims and the ACW
9/8/04, 9/14/04

NPS
8/29/03, 9/9/03, 9/19/03, 9/29/03, 10/7/03, 10/22/03, 12/4/03, 1/21/04, 3/10/04, 6/29/04, 2/4/05, 5/26/05, 7/1/05, 7/20/05, 9/7/05

Naglee (general)
10/22/04

Navies of the ACW
10/20/03, 11/4/03, 12/2/03, 3/8/04, 3/29/04, 3/22/05, 3/24/05, 5/3/05, 6/8/05, 8/5/05, 5/12/06, 7/30/06

Neely (author)
11/29/05, 1/25/06, 5/18/06, 6/20/06, 6/26/06, 6/28/06

Nevins (plagiarism)
12/23/03

Nevins (author, see also “Centennialism” and “American Heritage”)
1/16/04, 11/11/04, 11/24/04, 12/13/04, 1/23/06, 6/23/06, 7/4/06

New paradigms
10/15/03, 3/28/05, 4/7/05

Newton (author)
3/28/05

Nolan (author)
1/22/04, 6/11/06

Nosworthy (author)
3/4/05, 3/23/05, 3/24/05, 3/28/05, 4/7/05, 4/15/05, 2/9/06,

Nous
4/25/06

Numbers and losses (see also series “Numerolgy”)
11/17/03, 9/7/04, 10/27/04, 10/29/04, 11/3/04, 1/3/05, 6/7/05, 6/28/05, 6/26/06, 10/1/06, 10/3/06, 10/5/06, 10/8/06, 10/9/06, 10/23/06, 10/25/06, 10/26/06, 10/30/06, 10/31/06

OAH
8/4/05

Olcott (ACW Buddhist)
8/2/05

Olmsted (landscaper)
9/13/05

POW
6/10/04

Painting the ACW
10/13/03, 10/24/03, 7/1/04, 8/16/04, 10/19/04, 11/9/04, 6/2/05, 6/17/05, 4/17/06

“Parasocial relationships”
7/29/05,

Patterson (general)
10/29/04, 11/12/04, 9/7/05

Perrett (author)
3/22/05, 4/26/05

Perry (author)
8/22/05

Pershing (general)
6/28/04, 11/10/06

Phillips (author)
6/24/05, 7/25/05

Pinkerton (detective; see also “Numerology” series)
10/16/03, 8/23/06

Plagiarism
9/14/04, 9/27/04, 9/28/04, 10/1/04, 10/4/04, 10/8/04, 1/6/05, 2/8/05, 3/10/05, 4/27/05, 4/29/05, 5/2/05, 5/3/05, 5/5/05, 5/9/05, 5/13/05, 7/21/05, 8/4/05, 10/5/05, 11/18/05, 9/15/06, 9/22/06, 11/14/06, 11/15/06, 12/7/06, 12/8/06

Pleasanton (general)
11/21/06, 11/22/06

Pohanka (author)
10/30/03, 6/20/05, 8/4/05, 9/30/05, 3/14/06,

Polk (president)
9/15/04, 1/3/06

Political generals (see also “Goss”)
5/11/04, 5/13/04

Pop history
11/23/04, 5/10/05, 5/19/05, 5/20/05, 5/31/05, 6/21/05, 8/1/05, 9/15/05, 11/7/05, 12/21/05, 1/3/06, 6/23/06, 12/28/06

Pop history (master narrative)
8/27/03, 9/3/03, 9/4/03, 4/29/04, 8/4/04, 9/22/04, 5/11/05, 6/25/05, 7/7/05, 9/27/06, 12/27/06

Popper (philosopher)
1/12/06, 6/5/06, 6/6/06

Porter (general)
11/21/06

Poulter (editor)
5/13/05, 10/3/05

Preservation
3/24/04, 3/25/04, 4/2/04, 4/5/04, 4/12/04, 4/22/04, 5/6/04, 7/9/04, 7/15/04, 8/3/04, 8/12/04, 8/25/05, 8/30/04, 8/31/04, 9/1/04, 9/2/04, 9/3/04, 9/7/04, 9/9/04, 9/10/04, 9/13/04, 9/15/04, 9/16/04, 9/17/04, 9/20/04, 10/4/04, 10/8/04, 10/20/04, 10/21/04, 10/22/04, 10/24/04, 10/25/04, 11/01/04, 11/02/04, 11/3/04, 11/10/04, 11/22/04, 12/2/04, 12/20/04, 1/5/05, 1/21/05, 1/27/05, 1/28/05, 2/9/05, 2/16/05, 2/18/05, 2/23/05, 2/28/05, 4/1/05, 4/25/05, 5/17/05, 6/27/05, 7/6/05, 7/25/05, 7/27/05, 8/2/05, 8/3/06, 9/7/05, 9/8/05, 11/29/05, 12/1/05, 3/1/06, 3/7/06, 3/8/06, 5/23/06, 5/24/06, 6/22/06, 12/26/06

Priest (author)
3/28/05

Prokopowicz (radio host)
5/13/05, 6/22/05, 7/14/05, 10/3/05, 10/17/05, 10/21/05, 1/25/06, 7/4/06

“Public history”
12/5/03, 12/19/03, 6/30/04, 7/9/04, 8/16/04, 11/18/04, 12/8/04, 12/10/04, 12/23/04, 1/13/05, 2/1/05, 2/7/05, 2/9/05, 3/2/05, 3/14/05, 3/18/05, 3/21/05, 4/6/05, 5/11/05, 5/13/05, 5/25/05, 6/8/05, 6/13/05, 6/21/05, 11/29/05, 7/30/06

Publishing (foibles)
2/2/04, 8/16/04, 9/8/04, 11/16/04, 1/25/05, 5/19/05, 5/23/05, 5/31/05, 10/12/05, 11/6/05, 1/12/06, 1/13/06, 9/3/06

Publishing (tech)
6/25/04, 1/25/05, 3/22/05, 5/4/05, 3/15/06, 4/4/06, 4/5/06, 6/1/06, 6/5/06, 6/18/06, 7/17/06, 9/11/06, 9/22/06

Publishing (trends, see also series on sales figures)
11/26/04, 12/7/04, 12/8/04, 12/9/04, 12/10/04, 12/13/04, 12/21/04, 12/23/04, 12/24/04, 12/28/04, 12/29/04, 12/30/04, 12/31/04, 5/4/05, 5/9/05, 5/17/05, 9/6/06, 11/13/06

Rafuse (author, see also “Command Crisis” series)
5/11/05, 5/12/05, 5/27/05, 6/9/05, 6/13/05, 7/11/05, 7/20/05, 10/18/05, 1/30/06, 5/31/06, 8/24/06, 9/19/06, 11/03/06

Railroads
4/14/05, 5/4/05

Randall (author)
9/16/05, 12/7/05, 4/3/06

Ransom (alternative history)
8/16/05, 8/18/05

Rawley (author)
12/7/05

Ray (author)
1/23/06

Reagan (president)
6/7/04, 6/11/04,

Reality TV, ACW
1/1/04, 11/6/06

Reconstruction
8/26/05

Reed (author)
1/14/05

Reenacting
5/4/04, 6/18/04, 8/17/04, 9/28/04, 5/10/05, 10/3/05, 7/19/06, 8/22/06

Reenacting (opposition to)
11/20/03, 4/21/04, 1/19/05

Reenactors, drunken
10/3/06, 11/24/03, 5/19/04

Reese (author; see also High-Water Mark series)
9/1/03, 10/6/03, 1/14/04, 1/22/04, 2/26/04, 3/31/04, 4/22/04, 4/30/04, 5/21/04, 6/16/04, 6/22/04, 7/8/04, 7/30/04, 8/25/05, 1/11/05 , 1/20/05, 2/16/05, 3/8/05, 5/13/05, 5/24/05, 5/27/05, 6/13/05, 9/22/05, 12/15/05, 12/16/05, 1/9/06, 1/13/06, 1/18/06, 3/1/06, 4/4/06, 6/5/06, 6/18/06, 9/11/06, 9/12/06, 9/13/06,

Republicans
10/24/03, 11/24/03, 3/24/04, 4/27/04, 1/24/06, 3/13/06, 11/1/06

Research failures
10/8/03, 10/17/03, 11/28/03, 12/19/03, 12/30/03, 12/31/03, 1/5/04, 1/9/04, 1/14/04, 2/26/04, 5/25/04, 11/17/04

Research (failures, McPherson)
11/28/03

Research (failures, Sears)
1/5/03, 1/6/04, 1/7/04, 1/8/04, 1/11/04

Ride with the Devil (movie)
7/30/04

Ridgway (author)
8/24/05

Robb (military analyst)
6/6/05, 7/22/05, 11/10/06

Robertson (author)
1/4/06

Ropes (author)
6/30/04

Roundtables
10/7/04

Rowland (author)
4/7/05, 4/12/05, 4/13/05, 4/15/05, 5/27/05, 7/5/05, 9/11/06

Ruhlman (author)
9/4/06, 11/14/06, 11/15/06, 11/17/06

Rumsfeld (secdef)
5/13/04

Savas (publisher, incl. Savas Beatie)
9/22/04, 1/28/05, 4/6/05, 8/4/05, 3/1/06, 4/14/06, 4/17/06, 5/17/06, 6/7/06, 11/3/06, 11/19/06

Schofield (see also “Connelly”)
10/17/06, 11/03/06

Schulte (blogger)
9/6/05, 9/9/05, 9/19/05, 9/28/05, 10/18/05, 1/6/05, 4/18/06

Schwartz (historian)
5/13/05, 11/25/06

Sci-fi ACW
11/23/05

Scott (general)
4/23/04, 9/16/04, 1/19/05

Sears (author)
7/23/04, 9/22/04, 9/25/04, 12/20/04, 3/4/05, 3/28/05, 8/9/05, 8/19/05, 8/29/05, 9/12/05, 3/16/06

Sears (Gettysburg)
12/10/03, 2/11/04

Sears (Civil War Papers of GBM)
1/7/04, 1/8/04, 1/9/04, 1/11/04, 4/4/06,

Shaara, J (author)
2/9/04, 4/29/04, 12/22/04, 8/10/05, 9/12/05, 9/25/06

Shackel (author)
11/21/03, 11/25/03, 11/27/03

Shepherdstown (battle)
7/27/05, 7/29/05, 9/9/05, 1/20/06, 3/14/06

Sheridan (general, see also “Little Phil” series)
2/4/04, 5/24/04, 5/25/04, 6/6/05, 9/26/05

Sherlock (author)
9/22/04, 3/16/06

Sherman T (general)
8/02/04

Sherman W (brother of senator)
3/14/05, 3/17/05, 1/2/06, 10/17/06

Silman (chess master)
7/2/04, 5/18/06

Simon (author)
2/16/04, 2/20/04, 2/23/04, 4/14/04, 6/15/04, 12/1/04, 3/28/05, 6/23/05, 7/14/05, 9/15/05,

Simpson (author)
2/23/04, 11/22/04, 11/29/04, 3/22/05, 3/28/05, 5/12/05, 9/16/05, 3/21/06, 10/22/06, 12/19/06

Slavery
2/5/04, 7/26/04, 10/08/04, 3/2/05, 6/9/06, 7/20/06

Slavery (reparations)
12/9/03, 12/23/03, 4/20/04, 8/23/04, 10/04/05

Smeltzer (blogger, about)
11/17/05, 5/16/06, 5/24/06, 6/2/06, 9/13/06, 11/6/06, 11/13/06, 12/8/06

Smeltzer (blogged by)
5/25/06, 5/26/06, 5/27/06, 5/29/06, 5/30/06, 5/31/06, 6/1/06

Smith W (general)
11/8/04, 11/10/04

Smith, J (author)
2/23/04, 4/27/05, 4/29/05, 5/2/05, 5/3/05, 5/5/05, 8/22/05

Smith T (author)
6/28/05

Smithsonian
4/21/06

Snell (author)
1/5/04, 1/6/04, 4/15/04, 4/22/04, 8/30/04, 5/11/05, 6/22/05, 6/30/06

Sprague (governor, see also “Cotton Trading,” and “Burnside”)
9/12/06

Springfield (IL)
8/6/04, 10/11/04, 2/7/05, 1/16/06

Stanton (secwar)
6/2/04, 6/8/04, 2/4/05

“Stevens Floating Battery”
3/4/05, 12/7/06

Stotelmyer (lecturer)
8/25/04, 8/26/04, 1/6/05, 2/14/05, 2/15/05, 2/16/05

Strain (painter)
8/16/04, 4/19/05

Strategy (see also military reform)
5/6/05, 6/24/05, 4/26/06

Striner (author)
11/29/06

Styple (author)
2/3/06, 4/13/06, 10/17/06, 11/21/06, 11/22/06, 12/5/06

Sumner (general)
8/24/06, 8/28/06, 8/30/06

Sumner (senator)
1/3/06

Sumner and Sumner
1/4/06, 8/28/06

Sun Tzu (theoretician)
10/1/04

Surgeons’ headcounts (see also series “Numerology” and “Numbers and Losses”)
6/7/05

Sweeny (general)
7/21/04

Symonds (author)
7/30/06

Taaffe (author – see also series on Corps Commanders)
5/18/06, 8/9/06, 8/10/06, 8/12/06, 8/18/06, 8/24/06, 9/17/06, 10/12/06

Taleb (contingency theorist)
4/14/05, 4/15/05, 1/23/06,

Taney (chief justice)
12/31/03

Tidball (general)
9/13/06

Timrod (poet)
7/19/05

Todman (blogger)
8/23/05

Trading cards, ACW
7/12/04

Trefousse (author)
11/28/05, 11/29/05, 12/7/05, 11/29/06

Tsouras (editor)
5/24/04, 5/25/04, 5/26/04, 5/27/04, 5/28/04, 6/1/04, 6/2/04, 6/3/04, 6/4/04, 6/6/05, 6/8/04

Tubman biographies
1/27/04

Turchin (general)
4/11/05, 9/7/06

USV (institution)
9/23/05

Updike (author)
5/5/05

Upton (general)
7/14/05

Valee (ufologist)
6/11/06

Vandalism
11/7/03, 11/24/03, 12/2/03, 1/21/04, 10/12/04, 11/15/04, 2/17/05, 5/27/05, 6/20/05, 7/5/05, 8/25/05, 10/10/05, 1/9/06, 5/1/06

Vandergriff (military analyst)
5/23/05

Veterans (fake)
11/18/03, 4/28/04

Vidal (author)
12/21/04, 3/3/05, 9/12/05

Voegelin (philosopher)
4/14/04, 12/16/05, 4/25/06, 6/11/06

WWI
11/11/03, 11/11/04, 12/22/04, 2/4/05, 2/8/05, 11/11/05, 6/29/06, 11/10/06

Wade (senator)
11/22/06, 11/27/06

Wagenhoffer (game designer)
6/3/05, 6/7/05, 9/6/05, 9/7/05, 9/9/05, 9/19/05, 11/7/05, 5/22/06, 8/7/06

Waud (illustrator)
11/19/06

Waugh (author)
4/14/04

Washburn(e)s (any, all)
3/1/05

Weigley (author)
3/15/04, 4/1/04

Western theatre
6/15/06, 6/19/06, 7/12/06, 11/30/06

Whigs
3/25/05, 5/12/05

Whig theory of history
9/26/05

Willards (hotel)
7/28/04, 8/18/04, 12/15/04, 10/20/05, 10/21/05,

Williams F (author)
5/13/05

Williams K (author)
12/13/04

Williams T (author)
12/10/04, 11/29/05, 3/16/06

Williamsburg (battle)
8/3/04, 1/21/05, 11/3/06, 12/19/06

Wilson (author)
7/19/05, 7/24/06, 7/31/06

Winik (author)
2/22/05, 4/6/05, 5/6/05, 8/8/05, 8/18/05, 4/26/06, 7/6/06, 11/10/06

Wirz (commandant)
9/4/06

Wittenberg (author – see also Little Phil series)
6/6/05, 6/22/05, 9/6/05, 9/26/05, 10/3/05, 10/14/05, 11/6/05, 11/18/05, 11/29/05, 1/4/06, 1/15/06, 3/1/06, 3/14/06, 4/5/06, 4/14/06, 6/7/06, 8/10/06, 10/17/06

“Who are you?”
3/26/04

Woodbury (blogger)
12/10/05, 1/20/06, 2/8/06, 4/14/06, 5/22/06

Woodward (author)
9/16/05, 11/2/05

Woodworth (author)
5/4/4, 3/21/06, 5/31/06

Wrangel (general)
10/04/05

Yates
11/24/03


SERIES LISTING
(Chronological order)

The State of Civil War History
9/22/03, 9/23/03, 9/24/03, 9/25/03, 9/26/03

Military Reform Now and Then
5/13/04, 5/14/04, 5/16/04, 5/17/04, 5/18/04, 5/19/04, 5/20/04, 5/21/04, 5/28/04

High-Water Mark
7/14/04, 7/16/04, 7/20/04, 7/22/04, 7/27/04, 7/29/04, 8/3/04, 8/5/04, 8/10/04, 8/12/04, 8/19/04, 8/20/04

Fallacies of Abundance
9/23/04, 9/25/04

No Strategies Please, We’re Politicians
9/30/04, 10/1/04,

ACW Hyperreality
10/14/04, 10/15/04, 10/18/04, 10/19/04

Book Sales and New Thinking
12/08/04, 12/09/04, 12/10/04, 12/13/04, 12/14/04, 12/15/04, 12/20/04, 12/21/04, 12/24/04

The Quality of Historical Speculation
4/14/05, 4/15/05

Jean Smith and Grant
4/27/05, 4/29/05, 5/2/05, 5/3/05, 5/5/05

Our Civil War Army in Iraq (theme, not series)
5/6/05, 5/23/05 (Hackworth), 6/6/05, 7/8/05, 8/25/05, 9/14/05

McClellan at Gettysburg
5/24/05, 5/25/05, 5/26/05, 5/27/05, 6/1/05

Marszalek and Halleck
6/1/05, 6/2/05, 6/16/05; 6/3/05 and 6/6/05 Halleck sans Marszalek

McClellan’s War by Rafuse
6/9/05, 6/13/05, 7/20/05

Appreciating Foote (theme, not series)
6/29/05, 6/30/05, 7/5/05, 8/16/05

ACW sea novels (theme, not series)
7/6/05, 7/28/05, 8/12/05, 9/13/05

Book sales 2005
8/4/05, 8/5/05, 8/8/05, 8/9/05, 8/10/05, 8/22/05

Whig Theory of ACW History
9/26/05, 9/27/05

Wittenberg’s Little Phil
10/17/05, 10/18/05, 10/19/05

Lost Continents of Understanding
10/24/05 (to be cont.)

“Dialogs”
McLuhan, 1/17/06; Baudrillard, 1/18/06; Ortega, 1/24/06; Zizek, 2/9/06; McLaren, 3/30/06

The Command Crisis of 9/62
1/30/06, 2/1/06, 2/3/06, 2/4/06,

Book Sales in 2005
4/11/06, 4/18/06, 4/27/06,

Twenty Questions for CWPT
3/20/06, 3/21/06, 3/22/06, 3/23/06

Failing Better
4/4/06, 4/5/06

Howard’s Torpedo (by Harry Smeltzer)
5/26/06, 5/27/06

Burning of Darien (by Harry Smeltzer)
5/29/06, 5/30/06

Lost Cause Historiography
6/5/06, 6/6/06, 6/11/06

How to become a Corps Commander
8/10/06, 8/12/06, 8/18/06, 8/23/06, 8/24/06, 9/11/06, 9/17/06

McClellan/Johnston Cavalry Doctrines
8/28/06, 8/30/06, 9/7/06,

McDowell’s “Obnoxious” Hat
9/12/06, 9/13/06

Historians as Numerolgists
10/2/06, 10/3/06, 10/5/06, 10/8/06, 10/9/06, 10/23/06, 10/26/06, 10/31/06

Conditions for Commanding the AOP
11/19/06, 11/21/06, 11/22/06, 11/27/06

Lincoln’s Social Identity
12/12/06, 12/16/06, 12/18/06