[Originally posted 6 May 2010 at blog4history.com] American Military University (AMU) along with the Weider History Group is offering a series of webcasts covering the American Civil War. From the website: Long after the guns had been silenced, the huge volumes of letters written by these Civil War “grunts” remain a window for viewing and contemplating what they thought, what they ate, how they were trained, their discipline, their equipment,…

The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War Donald Stoker (Hardback, 512 pages) I’m going to go out on what should be a well occupied limb ready to break under the weight and say that Donald Stoker’s The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War will win award(s) next year. Stoker’s book is not just keenly researched, but he handles the war policies and strategies of the North…