TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

Why Does Brett Review Older Books?
Books on the Civil War and Film
My Film History Books
Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory. Neil Longley York. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (May 2001).
176 pp. 1 map, many illustrations.
I’ve been a film history buff almost as long as I’ve been a Civil War buff. [...]

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Last time I blogged about the street fighting in Gettysburg at the Farnsworth House. Lets move down the street toward the town center to the next sharpshooter spot, the Shriver House. G.W. Shriver owned this commodious two story house tha also featured a saloon in the basement and a “ten-pin” alley in a shed behind [...]

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Air Date: 042806
Subject: Patrick Brennan: The Battle of Secessionville
Book:Secessionville: Assault on Charleston
Guest: Patrick Brennan
Summary: If Isaac Stevens hadn’t been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of [...]

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I just read an interesting entry over at Andy MacIsaac’s blog First Maine Forward. Apparently, a blogger in the State of Maine is getting sued by the Maine Department of Tourism due to criticism he posted on his blog about Maine’s latest ad campaign proposal. As Andy points out, this seems rather ludicrous [...]

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Take Command: Second Manassas, already receiving glowing reviews shortly after release, was today awarded Wargamer.com’s “Award for Excellence”.

Read the Wargamer.com review of the game HERE.

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Since Take Command: Second Manassas is now out, I thought I’d pass along the sources the Mad Minute Games team used in making the game.
As a playtester for two companies (MMG and HPS), it never ceases to amaze me how they always strive to make things as accurate as humanly possible given the time and [...]

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One of the fun things about researching a book is finding something new, or rather something that

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Last night Frank Cooling emailed me with the web address of the NPS study on the Washington “Circle Forts,” which gives quite a bit of background about the forts from the time their building commenced in 1861 through Jubal Early’s raid to the end of the war. Fort Stevens, for example, started out as Fort [...]

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The Harper’s Ferry Arsenal has been updated and overhauled over the last few days due to the release of Take Command Second Manassas. New modder JB Hood has created a brand new Sound Mod v1 for the game. In addition, I have created new TC2M sections for the various mod types, such as [...]

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As I mentioned in my last post, Fort Stevens is now on the CWPTs "most endangered" list along with the remnants of 67 other “Circle Forts” that guarded Washington during the Civil War.

Circle Forts, Washington, D.C. Erected to protect the Union capital from the threat of Confederate assault, the Circle Forts are a ring of [...]

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