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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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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