My Israeli friend “Snoopy the Goon” (he prefers anonymity on the Web) has written a nice review of my Civil War historical battle novel and posted it on his blog with links to the Amazon sales page and the book’s new blog, “Knoxville 1863, the novel.”
Thanks, Snoop. Considering that you don’t normally like military history (and that you even had to Google Tennessee to see where Knoxville was), I admire your persistence and I’m very pleased that you enjoyed the story.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Civil War, Israel, Library
Tagged American Civil War, Knoxville 1863, Simply Jews, Snoopy the Goon
Still a few weeks away from Cavalry Scout Books getting my new Civil War novel up on Amazon–only after which will we begin promoting it by name with links–but in the meantime I’m discovering that the web really is home to a lot of CW material, especially enthusiast sites and blogs. Many are worth a look.
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Tagged American Civil War, Cavalry Scout Books, Civil War blogs
Named for the man who invented it, not the bird. Parrotts were rifled cannon used on both sides, though mainly by the Union—though certainly by skinnier troops than these overweight reenactors. The guns also figure in my Civil War novel which, after garnering only rejections I got professionally edited and printed it myself.
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Tagged American Civil War, artillery, civil war novel, Parrott gun, query letters, Union Army
This new civil war blog tracking the history of US Cavalry caught my eye because it details a Scottish immigrant captain of the 6th US Cavalry in 1866, and an earlier skirmish of the 6th, a defeat, actually, at the hands of the 7th Virginia Cavalry in July, 1863. Despite my entirely Confederate ancestry, I’m interested in the 6th because I served as a platoon leader in the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1968-69. Unicorn! We were allegedly training to replace the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, but most of our troopers were returnees from the war waiting to get out of the army. Most of us platoon leaders went to the war as light-infantry advisors to the SVN. Today, the 6th serves not as a regiment, but as four separate squadrons assigned to three infantry divisions and an aviation brigade.
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Tagged 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 6th US Cavalry Regiment, American Civil War, Crossed Sabers
Memorial Day is supposed to be about honoring the war dead, and passing the torch. It’s not supposed to be just another chance to whack Bush over Iraq, while leaving Afghanistan unmentioned because you can’t use that favored MSM phrase "…this unpopular war" with Afghanistan. The Memorial Day observance, which began in and after the American Civil War, is supposed to about the war dead, not the living combatants nor veterans. And not breaking faith is, today, an often forgotten part of it.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Civil War, Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Afhanistan, American Civil War, In Flanders Fields, Iraq, Memorial Day 2007
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 