June 9, 2007

• Budapest To Gettysburg Pre-Premiere Screening on June 29th

  Last October I wrote about a new documentary about Gabor Borritt being produced (see: Budapest to Gettysburg). Jack Boriit, producer, director, photopgrapher, and Gabor' son, sent me an email to let me know about the upcoming release and a pre-premiere screening on Friday June 29th at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg.  More information on the [...]

February 24, 2007

• New Documentary About Stonewall Jackson in the Works

  YouTube has a trailer for the upcoming documentary on Stonewall Jackson titled, Stonewall Jackson: His Fight Before the War. The documentary is being produced by Franklin Springs Family Media and is based by the book, Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend, by Richard Williams.

January 28, 2007

• "The Last Full Measure" Comes to Big Screen…Sort Of

  Over the past few weeks there have been news articles that the movie, "The Last Full Measure" is in production.  (see: 'The Last Full Measure' has a pulse (Monsters and Critics.com)).  Based on some comments, excitement was in the air that the final piece of Shaara's trilogy was final being realized.  Well it turns out [...]

December 20, 2006

• No News On "The Last Full Measure" Movie

  It's been over seven months since I posted about people seeking out information (see: Searching for Maxwell's Last Full Measure) on the making of Jeff Shaara's "The Last Full Measure" into a movie.  Ron Maxwell still has the movie listed in his upcoming projects section of his website with the same status as in May: This [...]

December 13, 2006

• Own Your Own Electronic Copy "The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies"

  Without a doubt, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (ORs) serves as one of the best resources for researching the Civil War.  This project was initiated by the United States War Department and took from 1880 until 1901 to assembled the entire collection. Morningside Bookshop [...]

October 15, 2006

• Budapest to Gettysburg

  David Corbett of the Battlefield Balladeers sent my this link about a new documentary, Budapest to Gettysburg, being created about Gabor Boritt, a leading expert on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. In Budapest to Gettysburg, acclaimed historian Gabor Boritt delves into a history he has refused to study: his own. In 1956, he escaped Hungary, [...]

September 17, 2006

• Today Marks 144th Anniversary of Bloodiest Day in Civil War Combat

  With today being, September 17th, we mark the 144th anniversay of the Battle of Antietam, where in 12 hours of fighting, 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded or missing. This is the single bloodiest day in Civil War combat. NPS's Antietam National Battlefield officials are expecting 25,000 visitors this weekend to [...]

June 5, 2006

• Ron, They're Still Searching

  Every since I posted (Searching for Maxwell's Last Full Measure) about a few visitors being referred to my blog looking for information if Ron Maxwell will bring "The Last Full Measure"  to the big screen, Google has bumped me up in the search results bringing even more people looking for the movie as well.  At [...]

May 7, 2006

• Searching for Maxwell's Last Full Measure

  One of the nice things about running my own blog on my hosted site is that I have full control over what blog software I use.  In my opinion, Wordpress is the best blogging software available today.  Besides its rich sets of features and capabilities, there is a whole user community that have created themes [...]