TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

If you’re new To TOCWOC, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I generally try to stay away from personal posts on TOCWOC, but today it is unavoidable.  As many of you are reading this, I will be closing on a new home for my girlfriend and me.  I already have [...]

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I just finished reading Marion V. Armstrong’s new book Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign, and one of Armstrong’s theories just doesn’t sit right with me.  Before we go into details let me give you a little bit of background.  The fight over the northern portion of [...]

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I have been running a Civil War blog in one form (American Civil War Gaming & Reading) or another (TOCWOC) since late 2005 with several hiatuses.  Due to this, I sometimes fall into the bad habit of assuming readers know exactly how TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog can be used to read articles of [...]

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For almost fifteen years now, I have enjoyed listening to music of the period, or music written about Civil War events.  Nothing gets me going like a good fife & drum rendition of the Bonnie Blue Flag or Hell on the Wabash.  As a matter of fact, I have put them on my iPod and [...]

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Strategist’s Personal Library is hosting a new “Military history reading challenge“.  The idea is for bloggers to choose three military history books to read and link back to the original post over at SPL.  The end result will be a large selection of books on various military history topics for people to read.  I had [...]

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Louis Bohorfoush is the newest TOCWOC blogger.  I’ll let Louis give you more details on his studies of the Civil War later but for now I’ll let you know Louis is mainly interested in northern Alabama and northern Mississippi, the areas where many of his ancestors were from.  Welcome Louis to the TOCWOC fold.  I [...]

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Note: Prior to reading this post, it will be a good idea to have the Consolidated Morning Report of the 91st Pennsylvania for September 26, 1863 open in another browser window.  I’ve set up the link above to open in a new window for your convenience.
Reader Mark Kucinic read my post Counting Heads: Civil War [...]

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The law professors have taken up the issue!
First out the gate was Ann Althouse, a Constitutional Law prof out of Madison, Wisconsin. Her take is that “all these people [who believe in the right of secession] have the law wrong and don’t seem to know the basics of the history of the Civil War,” and [...]

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Yesterday’s Odds & Ends took a look at the latest in the Civil War blogosphere.  As promised, here is a bonus Odds & Ends covering the rest of the latest Civil War news across the rest of the World Wide Web.  I am also going to start calling this column “Civil War Odds & Ends” [...]

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Josh M. at Student of the Civil War decided to retire the blog and move the Civil War content to his other blog Publius.  Good luck Josh.

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