Games & Entertainment

Civil War

GODS AND GENERALS PC CIVIL War Game ~~~ NEW & SEALED $18.95

Sid Meier‘s Civil War Collection – Windows PC – COMPLETE IN BIG BOX $44.99

CIVIL WAR GENERALS 2 PC CD NTSC (#1388) $39.95

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Sony Playstation 2, 2006) $4.95

Hidden Mysteries: Civil War $0.99

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Xbox 360, 2006) $14.99

Robert E. Lee: Civil War General (PC, Sierra, 1996) CD $7.50

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Sony PlayStation 2, 2006) $3.00

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided PlayStation 2 with case $10.99

THE UNIVERSAL MILITARY SIMULATOR American Civil WAR IBM APPLE PC GAME $40.00

*RARE* Civil War Generals 2: Grant Lee Sherman COMPLETE w/ Registration Card PC $49.99

Robert E. Lee: Civil War General (PC, 1996) With Original Case $9.99

HISTORY CHANNEL CIVIL WAR Secret Missions PS2 GAME $6.97

American Conquest Divided Nation PC XP CIVIL WAR Ultimate Strategy simulation $12.99

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Xbox 360, 2006) $1.04

Sid Meier’s Civil War Collection (PC Game) $9.00

IRONCLADS: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR [PC SHIP SIM] =NEW/SEALED $9.78

American Civil War — Take Command: Second Manassas (PC, 2006) $10.99

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided PS2 $18.88

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Sony PlayStation 2, 2006) PS2 $8.88

The History – Civil War: Secret Missions (Sony Playstation 3, 2008) $13.45

IRONCLADS AMERICAN CIVIL WAR New PC XP Vista 7 Sealed $8.78

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Sony PlayStation 2, 2006) $6.67

VINTAGE IBM TENDY PC GAME CIVIL WAR ERA “BULL RUN TO CHANCELLORSVILLE ” RARE..NR $0.99

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Sony PlayStation 2, 2006) $1.50

CIVIL WAR 2 Generals By SIERRA PC\CD $24.99

The History — Civil War: Secret Missions (Sony PlayStation 2, 2008) $25.81

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Sony PlayStation 2, 2006) $28.51

The History – Civil War: Secret Missions (PC, 2008) *** NEW *** $7.99

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided PS2 $3.99

Sid Meier’s Gettysburg! (Civil War Strategy Game) PC, 1997) $11.50

Robert E. Lee: Civil War General (PC, 1996) Sierra $11.99

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided (Xbox 360, 2006) $9.99

Hidden Mysteries™ Buckingham Palace and Civil War PC $0.99

American Civil War: Gettysburg $5.00

History Channel: Civil War – Secret Missions PC-DVD – NEW in DVD BOX $9.98

The History Channel – Civil War: A Nation Divided Playstation 2 (PS2) $3.00

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 PC XP GAME & NEAR MINT $26.17

CIVIL War Secrets OF THE NORTH & SOUTH PC XP MINT $11.76

Civil War: A Nation Divided Xbox 360 Complete Near Mint $4.75

CIVIL WAR GENERAL & GENERALS (1 & 2) Robert E Lee Grant Sherman PC CD-Rom Games $38.95

The History – Civil War: Secret Missions (Xbox 360, 2008) $20.00

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Irish Socialists in the Spanish Civil War

In 1933, Frank Ryan along with George Gilmore and Peader O’Donnell proposed the establishment of a new left-wing republican organisation which would be called the Republican Congress, to the IRA. It was rejected and the three resigned their duties within the Irish Republican Army. Other disaffected members who wanted to achieve their goals through Socialism, began to join the Republican Congress. From the very beginning however, divisions were very evident regarding the preferred method on which the movement should be formed on. The Congress eventually fell apart due to infighting in February 1933 before it ever proved an effective political force. But it did provide the source from which volunteers for the Civil War in Spain were recruited. Frank Ryan organised the first transports of troops from Ireland in December 1936. The first contingent entered the fighting immediately, they were sent to the Cordoba front where they fought alongside the French Ninth and No.1 Company of the British Battalion. However, the Irish were soon transferred to a base in the town of Villaneuva de la Jara forming with the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade. They were involved at engagements at the Battle of Jarama, the 1938 Advance on Gandesa and the Battle of Ebro, the last great Republican offensive of the Spanish Civil War. The Irish Volunteers were repatriated to Ireland in September 1938, when the Republican government disbanded the International Brigades with the intention of securing military aid from other democracies and to pressure fascist troops from Germany and Italy into withdrawing.

About the Author

Russell Shortt is a travel consultant with Exploring Ireland, the leading specialists in customised, private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and independent self drive tours of Ireland. Article source: http://www.exploringireland.net

Why was the American Civil War such a bitter and brutal affair?

Why was the American Civil War such a bitter and brutal affair?

As in, what exactly made the American Civil War the bloodiest war in US history?

- so bloody that casualties in the American Civil War alone outnumber the total casualties and losses from all the other wars the United States participated in from the American Revolution all the way to the Vietnam War.

Please explain your answer in-depth, with relevant examples and support.

Thanks!

It was fought by generals who learned their trade at the time of Napoleon and generally the tactics used in the war were Napoleonic. That is, positions were assaulted by massed charges in an attempt to take a position by overwhelming the defenders.

BUT, and here’s the reason it was so bloody….

The war was fought with what were effectively modern weapons. Rifled barrels ensured greater accuracy, repeating rifles ensured a greater rate of fire. The so called “Mine Ball” a 0.5 inch slug used in rifled barrels caused such massive wounds that a hit anywhere on the body took the soldier out of action, if the wound was in the torso then death was almost certain.

So you have a war fought with modern weapons and Napoleonic tactics. That’s why it was so bloody.

And just to show that we ignore history at our peril, the military leaders of the First World War failed to study the American Civil War and killed thousands because of this failure. In WWI they commited the same blunder; Napoleonic tactics and modern weapons. That’s why that war was so bloody too.