The field was full of the bodies from both sides of the line.

July 21, 1861: the raw untried armies of North and South meet for the first battle of the American Civil War.

“June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.”

Thus read the last diary entry, found in the pocket of a dead Union soldier. He had made the entry himself, while all around him, other soldiers were writing names and home addresses on slips of paper and pinning them to the back of their coats.

150 years later and the we are still reminded of that great war and all its loss.

A natural complement to my review of “Popular Front”, this video covers GMT’s take on the topic of the Spanish Civil War. The result is a traditional hex and counter wargame that does not reinvent the wheel, but makes it spin really well.