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Jeb Stuart not as Good as N B Forrest	3	11 Jul 2025 6:22 p.m. PST
Some New Thoughts on the First U.S. Service Member	9	11 Jul 2025 4:13 p.m. PST
A Brutal Way to Die in Gettysburg	3	10 Jul 2025 4:20 p.m. PST
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Ike on Lee	20	10 Jul 2025 2:45 p.m. PST
SPIERA Union Navy figures.	3	30 Jun 2025 5:19 p.m. PST
Frontier Miniatures - A New Beginning	67	24 Jun 2025 9:04 p.m. PST
Making Boxer .550 Cartridges for the P-53 Enfield Rifle	1	24 Jun 2025 5:36 p.m. PST
Home Cast Flag Bearer Conversions.	3	21 Jun 2025 4:20 p.m. PST
Best 15mm ACW Flags?	14	20 Jun 2025 4:57 p.m. PST
Looking for Rules for ACW / colonial era steam riverboats?	10	14 Jun 2025 10:53 a.m. PST
1860's Russian Invasion of the USA and Canada	32	14 Jun 2025 10:03 a.m. PST
Supply Question??	11	13 Jun 2025 11:54 a.m. PST
Restore the Confederate monument to Arlington?	36	11 Jun 2025 11:06 p.m. PST
ACW Barn 1/32 Scale	11	11 Jun 2025 7:52 p.m. PST
Ambulance conversion	1	11 Jun 2025 5:01 p.m. PST
Battle of Kelly's Ford - Cavalry Battle - Photos	5	11 Jun 2025 5:35 a.m. PST
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Is West Virginia Constitutional?	22	02 Jun 2025 12:52 p.m. PST
Gettysburg: Introduction	13	30 May 2025 10:22 p.m. PST
Mead's Grand Review Slight?	7	26 May 2025 8:37 a.m. PST
Civilians picnic at First Bull Run!	7	21 May 2025 8:43 a.m. PST
Presidential Memories: Lincoln's Relationship with the ...	1	15 May 2025 4:49 p.m. PST
ACW Sharp Practice gold	3	14 May 2025 4:06 p.m. PST
The Shenandoah Valley on the map??	11	11 May 2025 9:22 a.m. PST
Fading GMB Flags - advice on how to avoid?	14	10 May 2025 5:32 p.m. PST
One man’s arm decided the Battle of Gettysburg	3	09 May 2025 11:03 p.m. PST
The Bristoe Station Campaign	5	09 May 2025 3:59 p.m. PST
Do you like your rules friendly?	10	06 May 2025 1:17 p.m. PST
Hooker’s Attack at Antietam AAR	3	06 May 2025 7:38 a.m. PST
What color do you paint your iron wheel rims?	33	04 May 2025 3:23 p.m. PST
Rediscovering Civil War Classics: Jules Verne´s...	4	29 Apr 2025 4:00 p.m. PST
Battlefield scavenge	13	26 Apr 2025 3:37 a.m. PST
The Near Capture of Ulysses Grant by Confederate ...	4	25 Apr 2025 3:56 p.m. PST
Railroads of the Confederacy	5	24 Apr 2025 4:48 p.m. PST
Interesting Things You Might Not Know about William	6	23 Apr 2025 4:41 p.m. PST
Small campaigns - divisional level	11	21 Apr 2025 6:00 a.m. PST
Rules where a base is a battalion?	15	20 Apr 2025 3:13 p.m. PST
Thanksgiving: A Holyday Forged in War	1	11 Apr 2025 4:54 p.m. PST
Abraham Lincoln's Forgotten Walk Through Richmond	7	11 Apr 2025 9:31 a.m. PST
Civil War notes & queries...	12	10 Apr 2025 9:04 p.m. PST
Time to put an end to sabot bases?	15	07 Apr 2025 3:18 p.m. PST
Regimental Colors: Infantry Guidons and Company Flags	7	04 Apr 2025 12:26 p.m. PST
The Wagon ...	1	31 Mar 2025 5:39 p.m. PST
Artillery ammo resupply	8	31 Mar 2025 2:29 p.m. PST
Longstreet at Gettysburg	13	30 Mar 2025 9:38 p.m. PST
The Home Front in the South	6	27 Mar 2025 9:44 p.m. PST
Horse and musket period, why is it your favourite?	27	27 Mar 2025 2:59 p.m. PST
ACW 1 to 1 skirmish rules	9	27 Mar 2025 1:24 a.m. PST
Would the American Civil War have ended differently	21	26 Mar 2025 4:06 p.m. PST
What Civil War Legions can you field?	10	25 Mar 2025 9:38 a.m. PST
Original Brigade Fire & Fury on a budget!	7	24 Mar 2025 7:25 p.m. PST
Some Confederate Command Stands	5	24 Mar 2025 8:40 a.m. PST
Inspired by American Heritage!	13	23 Mar 2025 4:44 p.m. PST
Petersburg: The Wearing down of Lee's Army	3	22 Mar 2025 3:55 p.m. PST
Crossing large rivers- gaming??	12	21 Mar 2025 9:58 a.m. PST
Army Characteristics in Wargames	9	21 Mar 2025 6:18 a.m. PST
Union Horse Batteries - 3in Rifles ?	17	20 Mar 2025 5:12 p.m. PST
Karl Marx and the American Civil War	17	16 Mar 2025 7:39 p.m. PST
Sayings from ACW Era we still use today	11	16 Mar 2025 2:05 p.m. PST
Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro)	10	15 Mar 2025 4:04 p.m. PST
Siege Guns and Heavy Artillery in 15mm/1:100 scale?	7	14 Mar 2025 6:02 a.m. PST
Inducing Southerners to Desert in 1865	4	11 Mar 2025 3:51 p.m. PST
In Photos: Burying the Hatchet at the 1913 ...	3	10 Mar 2025 3:40 p.m. PST
Antietam Video: Hooker's Attack table set up	5	22 Feb 2025 7:33 p.m. PST
Seek playtesters for set of RPG / skirmish rules for 1855-65	8	19 Feb 2025 5:25 p.m. PST
Figure ID? 20mm ACW Confederate	14	19 Feb 2025 12:57 p.m. PST
Rebel Fury by GMT and Mark Herman	3	18 Feb 2025 3:55 p.m. PST
Hamilton anticipates the war?	8	17 Feb 2025 12:48 p.m. PST
Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty?	56	12 Feb 2025 8:59 a.m. PST
Confederate Soldiers in the Siege of Petersburg	2	10 Feb 2025 4:40 p.m. PST
Regimental Fire & Fury - Project Finale!	7	07 Feb 2025 3:48 p.m. PST
Canada’s Civil War	7	07 Feb 2025 1:26 p.m. PST
The whole Seven Days Battles (ACW) in one game	7	05 Feb 2025 9:03 p.m. PST
15mm ACW project SHILOH Order of Battle painting completed	3	31 Jan 2025 4:09 p.m. PST
Walldürn - The ACW in Germany	6	23 Jan 2025 3:53 p.m. PST
Was George Thomas Slow?	22	23 Jan 2025 10:07 a.m. PST
Manufactured History?: Study Exposes Conflict Of Myth	11	22 Jan 2025 3:53 p.m. PST
Why this caregiver was allowed to follow her husband	4	21 Jan 2025 3:59 p.m. PST
A Gettysburg Refight	3	18 Jan 2025 3:33 p.m. PST
Hard to stop once it's started!	12	09 Jan 2025 2:56 p.m. PST
rail roads	8	08 Jan 2025 12:10 a.m. PST
How to make a good game out of Cold Harbor?	12	06 Jan 2025 6:21 p.m. PST
Native Americans: A Study of Their Civil War Experience	1	04 Jan 2025 4:23 p.m. PST
black powder rules movement	8	01 Jan 2025 3:57 a.m. PST
black powder rules movement - thanks!	2	30 Dec 2024 10:15 a.m. PST
WIP ACW wagons and artillery	5	25 Dec 2024 1:30 p.m. PST
Cavalry Casualties - An explanation ...	4	24 Dec 2024 4:04 p.m. PST
ACW Generals	11	20 Dec 2024 6:08 p.m. PST
Brigade Fire and Fury Basing Question	14	20 Dec 2024 4:58 a.m. PST
ACW tourism: Nashville to Atlanta	7	17 Dec 2024 2:28 p.m. PST
Opinions wanted, ACW guns	11	17 Dec 2024 6:25 a.m. PST
ACW guns update and the Iron Brigade	3	16 Dec 2024 8:29 a.m. PST
Camp Douglas 1864 Conspiracy	5	10 Dec 2024 4:51 p.m. PST
Saving Major McCook: William Surles at Perryville	1	06 Dec 2024 4:48 p.m. PST
Pickett's Charge.	10	03 Dec 2024 3:42 p.m. PST
18th Mississippi (First Corps and Dixon Minis)	5	02 Dec 2024 7:45 a.m. PST
were flanking brigades of skirmishers formed?	14	02 Dec 2024 4:07 a.m. PST
James Rifles	11	27 Nov 2024 1:38 p.m. PST
Fort Negley's History	3	26 Nov 2024 5:31 p.m. PST