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Hoofbeats and Cold Steel

J. David Petruzzi or "JD" as he is commonly known is the book-writing partner of Eric Wittenberg whose "Civil War Cavalry" blog is mentioned earlier on this page. There is often a certain degree of overlap between the two blogs, but JD has interests of his own and a nice way of expressing them. Another good site for regular reading by cavalry fans and others.

Lincoln Studies

Samuel Wheeler is another blogger whose focus is the 16th President. Since we already have the "Abraham Lincoln Blog" of Geoff Elliott noted above, why have another site devoted to a man dead nearly a century and a half? Turns out two smart, witty, perceptive people can find different things to say about the same subject and both are well worth reading. Wheeler also covers "Lincoln on eBay" which is not to be missed.

Michigan Civil War Blog

John Dempsey, who usually goes by "Jack" is a member of the Michigan Historical Commission with a mission: he wants it known, remembered and noted what his state did in the Civil War. This is very easy to do in a state like Virginia where you have a battlefield about every mile and a half, but harder to do in the upper Midwest where the action was in the packing plants and the industrial foundries and the recruiting stations.

North Carolina and the Civil War

Michael Hardy studies and writes about, as you might well have guessed, the participation of North Carolina in the Civil War. Unlike Andrew Duppstadt, whose interests are coastal and maritime, Hardy works more in the western and mountainous parts of the state. He has published books on the topic and is currently researching on another regiment from that part of the state.

Of Battlefields and Bibliophiles

David Woodbury is a well known name to long time participants in Civil War activities on the Internet. Besides noting and writing on a wide range of topics--often book related but by no means always--he frequently reprints material including interviews from the  Civil War Forum from years, nay decades, gone by.

Past in the Present    (NEW)

"Mlynchhistory" is the blogger here, a former worker at museums and historic sites who has taken up teaching at the college level in preparation for extending his US History masters degree into a PhD. With an upbringing in east Tennessee, he expresses a particular interest in the history of that region, with focus on the Revolutionary as well as Civil War eras. A mix of "public history" along with the academic sort, and the academic field itself, holds the interest. The site is attractive, easy to read and nicely organized. An extensive blogroll is provided which covers most of the Civil War blogs we know of, as well as some more general historic topics. Comments post easily without administrative annoyances, other than comment moderation.

Pinstripe Press Blog

Michael Aubrecht might be one of those items that "Where have I heard this name before?" section of your brain. If so you are probably a baseball fan since he has written extensively for heavy publications in that field. Nowadays he lives with the Civil War on all sides in Fredericksburg Virginia, where he devotes much attention to religious matters and combines this with Civil War writing.

A Publisher's Perspective     (NEW)

This is the blog of Ted Savas, he of Savas-Beatie Publishing, a company that has (as a recent post here notes) taken on additional importance in the Civil War field as the economic crunch has caused big-name publishers to go ever more for the sure-fire big-time bestselling blockbuster sort of book. The site seems to be a fairly equal mix of Civil War talk (polls on Favorite Western Theater Fields, Favorite Parts of Gettysburg Battlefield, etc) and inside-baseball publishing discussion. Many of his commenters are also authors he has published, which gives the non-writing blog reader a rare look at the interchange that goes on. A Blogger site, this one has the best commenting system the format allows, including both "Name/URL" and "anonymous" options. There is a "captcha" but it is blessedly large and easy to read.

The Old Virginia Blog

Richard G. Williams Jr. is a long-time, as in several generations worth, resident of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and draws much sustenance from the depths of his roots there. The writer of a book on Stonewall Jackson which has been adapted into a recent movie, he writes more on conservative political and religious subjects than the Civil War in recent times.

Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Mike, another blogger who adheres to the old style of using no last name on his blog, is another generalist. He comes up with some of the oddest stories found on the Web and online news sites. A persistent interest in studying the Lincoln assassination and associated mysteries and myths is a frequent source of posts. His secret identity is as a substitute school teacher.

My Year of Living Rangerously

Mannie Gentile had a respectable career as a museum educator, which he threw over to become a park ranger at Antietam. He's still only on part time seasonal status, so in winter we hear of his adventures as a substitute teacher at RhinoVirus Elementary in nearby Sharpsburg. Adept at photography, video work, drawing and cartooning, war helmet collecting, woodworking and no doubt other skills as yet unmentioned, we suspect he may be the happiest man on the face of the earth.

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