TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

If you’re new To TOCWOC, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just a quick note to let everyone know TOCWOC is back online.  My web host had a server failure and lost not only the last few days of posts for me but also my scheduled posts for the next [...]

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Here’s another Odds & Ends for a Saturday.  Regular posts will resume on Monday.

Help “badfish20″ pick out a Civil War wargame that fits his needs.

The London Times explains “[w]hy Times reports in 1863 were a shade unreliable”.

Check out High Water Mark, a FREE set of Civil War wargames rules.

Eric Jacobson, author of For Cause and [...]

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I’d like to take a moment to welcome Josh M. over at the new Civil War blog Student of the Civil War.  Josh is a graduate student at Rutgers University.  The blog has been around since February, so a hat tip is due to Tom at Touch the Elbow for discovering this fresh fish.  As [...]

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I’m pleased to present a short interview with the lead programmer for Birth of America and AGEod’s American Civil War Philippe Malacher, well known as Pocus on the AGEod forums. Pocus was gracious enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions about the game and the company. [...]

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Louisiana State University has a digital collection of documents on line, some of which are about the Civil War. Of particular interest is a photograph album covering the years 1862-1900, in which are many Confederate portraits, such as this one of Captain B. R. Chinn of the 9th Louisiana Battalion.

There’s another collection of period lantern [...]

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Air Date: 062008
Subject: Civil War Preservation
Web Site: Civil War Preservation Trust
Guest: Jim Campi
Summary: Civil War Preservation Trust Policy and Communications Director Jim Campi talks Civil War battlefield preservation.
Brett’s Summary: This is the last live show of the summer for 2008. Gerry mentions at the top of the show he will be returning live on August [...]

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What’s a celeb sighting got to do with the Civil War? Seems Hackman has now retired from acting and is now into writing about the Late Unpleasantness. He’ll be appearing at a local book store. Haven’t made up my mind whether I’ll go or not (it costs money), but there’s a review of the book [...]

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Dark Command, a John Wayne and Claire Trevor vehicle, is loosely based on the Civil War career of William Clarke Quantrill, the Confederate guerrilla operating mostly in Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War. When I write loosely, I should probably capitalize, bold, and underline that word. While the movie is entertaining if you like [...]

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One of the few criticisms I got on my sharpshooter book was in quoting this passage:

It became painfully apparent that, however inferior the Confederate armies were in point of education and general intelligence to the men of the Union, man for man they were the superiors of their northern antagonists in the use of arms. [...]

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Rev. James K. Hosmer left an excellent account of his meeting with a famous Rebel sharpshooter, dubbed “Old Thousand Yards” for his shooting ability. Hosmer, then a corporal, served with Co. D, 52nd Massachusetts, a nine-months outfit, and his description comes to us from the siege of Port Hudson. Also worthy of note are his [...]

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