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Was it really a diversion?	3	25 Feb 2021 2:57 p.m. PST
The Confederates win at Gettysburg, then what?	23	25 Feb 2021 2:50 p.m. PST
How do you make Flag Dude's Style of Flags?	12	24 Feb 2021 1:03 p.m. PST
Wargaming vs lurve	54	23 Feb 2021 6:05 p.m. PST
Carnage and Glory Campaign System for ACW	1	23 Feb 2021 9:51 a.m. PST
Texas Tough: The Rough and Ready William “Howdy” Martin	1	22 Feb 2021 9:35 p.m. PST
Donehogawa (Ely S. Parker)	3	20 Feb 2021 11:21 a.m. PST
“The Little Regiment”: Stephen Crane’s Little-Known Story	1	19 Feb 2021 9:29 p.m. PST
“Here he lays far from home and kindred” – Assistant	1	19 Feb 2021 2:58 p.m. PST
Support the University Press of Kansas and treat...	3	19 Feb 2021 11:59 a.m. PST
Stars and Bars ! Nothing is easy.	29	19 Feb 2021 11:28 a.m. PST
Ted Toys Miniatures	1	18 Feb 2021 10:47 a.m. PST
Fort Pocahontas	3	17 Feb 2021 7:04 a.m. PST
Pentagon Begins The Process To Purge Confederate Names	44	16 Feb 2021 7:58 a.m. PST
Johnny Reb 3 Basing for small/understrength regiments	13	14 Feb 2021 7:56 p.m. PST
The Hairy Nation Goes to War: Davis County, Iowa in the	2	13 Feb 2021 10:14 p.m. PST
Hotz Mats?	12	13 Feb 2021 10:05 a.m. PST
Mother Bickerdyke: The Woman Who Outranked Sherman	7	12 Feb 2021 11:58 a.m. PST
Brass shoulder scales on US Regulation Frock Coat	10	12 Feb 2021 9:26 a.m. PST
Feb 20: Battle of Olustee	3	10 Feb 2021 6:57 a.m. PST
Why the Civil War Actually Ended 16 Months After Lee	3	07 Feb 2021 9:34 p.m. PST
Batteries at Grand Gulf captured by the United States	5	07 Feb 2021 8:58 a.m. PST
The Army of Northern Virginia’s Great Winter Battles	4	04 Feb 2021 11:29 a.m. PST
Union Asunder: 3D-Printable American Civil War Armies	6	03 Feb 2021 11:43 a.m. PST
How Many Major ACW Battles Have You Gamed?	42	03 Feb 2021 7:39 a.m. PST
Origin of the Movement Around Pope's Army of Virginia,	1	01 Feb 2021 9:29 p.m. PST
The First Successful Civil War Victory	15	31 Jan 2021 9:22 p.m. PST
The Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry	3	30 Jan 2021 11:04 a.m. PST
Civil War Cider Cake Recipe	4	29 Jan 2021 12:03 p.m. PST
The crazy steam-powered gun of the Civil War	4	28 Jan 2021 12:30 p.m. PST
Any info on Warlord Games new ACW initiative??	99	27 Jan 2021 9:14 a.m. PST
ACW Infantry with rifles on wrong shoulder	20	26 Jan 2021 4:13 p.m. PST
Marching position: which shoulder to put your musket on?	13	24 Jan 2021 9:49 a.m. PST
Question about Union regimental flags - mirrored?	12	23 Jan 2021 1:01 p.m. PST
Jack Hinson The Civil War's Greatest Sniper	1	20 Jan 2021 2:23 p.m. PST
Lone Warrior Blog Update - 27/15/2020	4	19 Jan 2021 3:35 a.m. PST
VIDEO: Battery H Of The 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery At	2	14 Jan 2021 4:15 a.m. PST
Schuyler Hamilton, Scion of American Heroes, Is a Civil	2	14 Jan 2021 4:07 a.m. PST
finding ACW figures that fit next to Warlord "Epic"	37	13 Jan 2021 4:10 p.m. PST
"19th Indiana: Gone But Not Forgotten"	3	13 Jan 2021 11:32 a.m. PST
Lombardy Studios 1st battle of Bull Run book	3	13 Jan 2021 10:33 a.m. PST
Stories of the 1st Minnesota	1	13 Jan 2021 10:05 a.m. PST
When a Monument Gets Its History Wrong	10	10 Jan 2021 2:50 p.m. PST
Civil War Myth Busting: The Fictional Confederate Irish	8	10 Jan 2021 2:48 p.m. PST
Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater	3	10 Jan 2021 2:42 p.m. PST
War Happens in Dark Places, Too	4	10 Jan 2021 2:30 p.m. PST
Cowskin Prairie battle info?	4	10 Jan 2021 8:28 a.m. PST
The Preservation “Miracle” at Stones River	9	10 Jan 2021 8:25 a.m. PST
Gen. Lee’s Last Attempt to Avoid Surrender	2	10 Jan 2021 7:26 a.m. PST
Things You May Not Know About William Tecumseh Sherman	2	09 Jan 2021 3:10 p.m. PST
Civil War Myths and Mysteries	2	08 Jan 2021 3:16 a.m. PST
Who Was First at Gettysburg?	4	07 Jan 2021 7:57 p.m. PST
The Cornfield – Inside the Action at Antietam’s Bloody	1	06 Jan 2021 9:13 p.m. PST
ACW House Rules	2	06 Jan 2021 8:24 p.m. PST
Re-evaluating Ezra Carman: Triangulating the 2nd South	1	05 Jan 2021 7:59 p.m. PST
Confederate cavalry flags 1863	7	02 Jan 2021 3:37 p.m. PST
Neil Thomas 19th century rules	7	02 Jan 2021 3:06 p.m. PST
Flags: paper or fabric; which lasts longer?	23	01 Jan 2021 1:14 p.m. PST
The Confederate Soldier’s Dress & Equipment	1	30 Dec 2020 9:25 p.m. PST
The Battle of Orange Court House: Mounted Mayhem in the	1	30 Dec 2020 8:03 p.m. PST
Free Warlord ACW in the UK...	5	30 Dec 2020 5:02 p.m. PST
British intervention to secure cotton.	25	30 Dec 2020 8:28 a.m. PST
Ectors Texas brigade	5	27 Dec 2020 4:54 a.m. PST
Predictive Probability Model for American Civil War	1	26 Dec 2020 8:39 p.m. PST
Favorite 15mm ACW Figures	49	26 Dec 2020 7:12 p.m. PST
Wilder's brigade colours	6	23 Dec 2020 10:43 a.m. PST
Battle of Corinth - guns in forts	6	22 Dec 2020 5:15 p.m. PST
Why covered bridges?	16	22 Dec 2020 11:26 a.m. PST
Myths and Mysteries of the Civil War	5	22 Dec 2020 11:14 a.m. PST
Sherman’s Christmas, 1864	1	21 Dec 2020 8:50 p.m. PST
Confederate Regimental Mascots	6	21 Dec 2020 7:59 p.m. PST
At Least 76 Iowans Joined The Confederacy During The	11	21 Dec 2020 12:15 p.m. PST
Alternative horses for Dixon	6	21 Dec 2020 7:35 a.m. PST
Lincoln’s Missing Bodyguard	3	18 Dec 2020 9:13 a.m. PST
Tucker’s Confederate Marine Brigade	3	16 Dec 2020 11:41 a.m. PST
Medical and surgical care during the American Civil War,	3	16 Dec 2020 8:51 a.m. PST
The Battle of Perryville, Polk Attacks: Civil War Kentucky	5	14 Dec 2020 9:56 p.m. PST
Psychology of hand-to-hand combat	3	14 Dec 2020 9:37 p.m. PST
Handgun Statistics	10	14 Dec 2020 9:10 a.m. PST
Rules for 28mm ACW	8	13 Dec 2020 4:48 a.m. PST
Civil War Prisions	1	11 Dec 2020 7:49 p.m. PST
Where the Civil War Strikes Twice: Towns and Farms	3	11 Dec 2020 12:06 p.m. PST
The Rockbridge Artillery A Brief History of the Battery	3	09 Dec 2020 11:26 a.m. PST
The Famous Alan Pinkerton	5	09 Dec 2020 8:50 a.m. PST
The Evolution of Union Cavalry 1861-1865	6	08 Dec 2020 12:27 p.m. PST
U.S Civil War by Don Troiani..	3	08 Dec 2020 11:21 a.m. PST
The Terrible McWaters	1	07 Dec 2020 8:08 p.m. PST
Am I sitting on funding for a new army?	17	07 Dec 2020 9:36 a.m. PST
Civil War Cavalry Units: Worth the Cost?	10	07 Dec 2020 9:34 a.m. PST
The Evolution of Union Cavalry 1861-1865...	5	05 Dec 2020 9:00 a.m. PST
How the Union Pulled Off a Presidential Election During	6	03 Dec 2020 3:08 p.m. PST
ACW Casualty figures- 28mm	8	30 Nov 2020 8:51 a.m. PST
Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania	7	30 Nov 2020 8:21 a.m. PST
Black Powder Vs Rank and File Comparison game - ACW	18	26 Nov 2020 5:15 p.m. PST
Your ancestor was in the ACW!	20	26 Nov 2020 3:06 p.m. PST
Charge of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery	6	26 Nov 2020 11:23 a.m. PST
On To Richmond - latest release, and review	29	25 Nov 2020 5:06 p.m. PST
American Civil War Marching Review	5	25 Nov 2020 12:09 p.m. PST
Heroic Burnside	3	22 Nov 2020 2:21 p.m. PST
Ending The War: A Union Prisoner on Lee’s Retreat	5	20 Nov 2020 7:25 p.m. PST