American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Officers of the ACWGC:

Coming February 15th, the ACWGC will have a new Department of Records (DoR) !

Like many of you, I have experienced the frustrations from recent outages of the DoR. After patching things back together several times last year, the Cabinet decided to examine the possibility of creating a new DoR.

The Cabinet eventually concluded that rather than struggling to maintain and update the current DoR, it was more reasonable to create an entirely new DoR using a modern and more reliable MS Office-based internal operating system through a new hosting site. Accordingly, the Cabinet voted unanimously to retire the old site in favor of a new one.

Don’t panic … all of the files, game records, and information from the retiring DoR will be maintained and continued in the new DoR.

Gen Blake Strickler (GinC, CSA) has created and will manage the Club’s new DoR. This new site is a fabulous piece of work that does everything and more than the old site. The notable difference is that the new site uses some manual data entry, but this is at the administrator level which will not impact users. Gen. Strickler has shared the ownership rights of his ACWGC.net with me (as the Club President) and I will help ensure the site stays online and active should anything happen to Gen. Strickler out there in the real world.

Each of you will also receive a tutorial video about the website later this week and I encourage all officers to explore the new DoR when it becomes operational. I believe you will find the new DoR to be well-designed, highly informative, visually attractive, and easy to navigate. More importantly, its new format smoothly accommodates upgrades, expansions, and other edits to meet the Club’s future needs.

If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions for the new site, please contact your Army Commander.


I will see you on the field !

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J.L. Boling
PRESIDENT
ACWGC

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Gen. Blake Strickler
Confederate General-in-Chief
El Presidente 2010 - 2012

Will the current reports still be available ?
Specifically the
Army Games Report
OBD Summary Report
OBD Detail Report
Inactive List
Individual Player Game Report

Over the years I have created several Excel files that use these reports to provide data for the Army Monthly Reports and to assist in updating the Union webpages.

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Gen. Ken Miller



The McKeesport Union Guard

3/1/II
Chief of Staff
AotP

Hi Ken,

I sent you an email with some more detailed answers.

For anyone else curious - the short answer is "yes." These reports will largely be available in some form or another in the new DOR.

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Gen. Blake Strickler
Confederate General-in-Chief
El Presidente 2010 - 2012

A big THANK YOU to all who have worked trying to keep the old DOR alive and to those who have created the new one. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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Lt. Col. Jim Pyle
2nd Bde, 1st Div
XVII Corps
Army of the Tennessee

Excellent news! Thank you to all who have labored to launch this new Dept. of Records!

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Lt. General Tim Reneau
2nd Corps
Army of Tennessee
Commanding

ACWGC Academy Training Instructor

Great job, gentlemen!

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MG Robert Frost

Thank You for all your hard work.

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Gen Lynn Newell
Army Of the Potomac
V Corp
Commander

Wow! This looks really great. Thanks to Blake and all of the team that worked on this.

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General Richard Whipkey
Commanding Officer
Army of the Potomac

Thank you to The Cabinet for all your hard work on the club. I'm amazed that you find the time for all this.

MG Mike Letus

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MG Mike Letus
8th "Jersey Shore" Brigade
1st Division
XVII Corps
Army of the Tennessee