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Late in 2019, the American Civil War Chronicles blog was reset to before the beginning of the civil war.  From that reset, it will be publishing civil war related material, primarily, but not exclusively, from 160 years ago for the current date. For instance, posts for January 5, 2020 include letters from Alexander H. Stephens and Robert Toombs dated January 5, 1860.

At the beginning of 2020, there were over 22,000 news articles, diary or journal entries, photographs, drawings, and more scheduled that will published through the middle of 2025, with more to be added.

May 3, 2020, the state of posts was: 22,005 total posts, 300 published, 5993 scheduled and 15,712 to be reviewed, edited, as needed, and scheduled

May 14 status: 22,144 total posts; 329 have been published, 6,808 have been scheduled and 15,007 are left to be reviewed, edited and scheduled.

June 6, 2020: 22,200 total posts, 417 published, 7,378 scheduled, and 14,405 in draft. Most of these have been previously used, stepping through the war day-by-day during the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. I am also adding and scheduling new material on a regular basis.

July 19, 2020: 22,350 total posts, 509 published, 8,341 scheduled, and 13,500 in draft

February 8, 2021: 22,523 total posts, 1,546 published, 9,029 scheduled, and 11,948 in draft; Adding maps (see menu above), have also added several new works and authors (under sources)

March 5, 2021: 22,953 total posts, 1,814 published, 9,289 scheduled, and 11,840 in draft—Currently working on War Diary of a Union Woman in the South (84 total entries; scheduling) and Diary of Belle Edmondson (over 200 new entries, all in 1864 [scheduled to be published 2024] and may publish under fair use provisions and limitation on copyright selected earlier material from a book published in 2004.  (The book is a compilation of previously unpublished material from the 1860s.  The copyright term for unpublished material is 70 years after the death of the author, so the individual letters and diary entries are not copyrightable.  However, the selection and arrangement of those letters and diary entries into a compilation is protected by copyright.  Use of selected material from that compilation would not be an infringement of copyright.)

April 28, 2021:  23,231 total posts, 2,729 published, 9,046 scheduled, and 11,456 in draft.

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