TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

I’ve been busy the past few weeks going through about 1,000 pages of documents surrounding Everton Conger’s suspension in 1883 from the Territorial Supreme Court bench in Montana, so I haven’t had time to do much in the way of blog work. But since I feel like I need to carry my weight here a [...]

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I am a political cartoon junkie! When I was a kid, I used to clip out the best cartoons from the local newspaper, the Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder. I grew up in the Vietnam War era –a time of long-haired sloppy-looking dropouts, fervent anti-war protestors, spaced out dopeheads, greedy TV preachers, frustrating Ohio sports teams, [...]

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I posted some comments regarding Veterans Day on one of my blogs today. I extend my personal thanks and my deepest gratitude to TOCWOC readers and contributors who have served in the armed forces. Thanks!

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I spent last weekend driving over a good bit of Warren, Loudoun, Fairfax and Fauquier counties with a tour group from Michigan. We were visiting Mosby sites, from the Oakham Farm, where Mosby’s partisan career started, to Salem (Marshall), where he disbanded the command rather than surrender it to the enemy. We did walking tours [...]

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I’m not sure how I managed to miss this, but Gary Grigsby’s new Civil War game has received a title: Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States. A new forum is now available at Matrix games for those of you interested in tracking its final stages of development. In addition, an AAR thread has [...]

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