A major change for this blog concerning my US Civil War collection

Recently I have been finding it difficult to consider keeping my US Civil War collection. Most of the figures I have date from the early 1970s and over the years I have struggled to either find a game system I like, or to even see if I want to continue keeping the collection. As well, despite a family connection to the conflict, we had an ancestor who was pressed into service with the Confederacy at the siege of Fredricksburg, and he fell in that fight.
On a personal note, the controversy surrounding the Confederate battle flag is also another reason I decided to part with the collection.
I was going through what I had and have found that with the rule set I have, it would mean an investment of at least another 300-500 figures to make it a go, and I just don't feel like doing that with this period.

The only way I would do any civil war type figures now would be for any Fenian raid type games, and for those, I think I can use other figures for that. Namely my cowboy style figures.

A fellow collector here in Nova Scotia has offered to trade my collection for kits in other eras that I am more interested in.

I will keep this blog up, and update it with the other ideas I have for gaming the period in British North America between 1815-1900.