TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: August 2009

  • Review: The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth

    Hess, Earl J. The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth. University Press of Kansas (September 9, 2008). 288 pages, tables, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0700616077 $29.95 (Hardcover). Did the widespread use of the rifle musket for the first time in the American Civil War lead to increased average combat ranges, increasingly destructive […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: August 28, 2009

    Air Date: 082809 Subject: The Real Wade Hampton Books: Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer Guest: Rod Andrew, Jr. Summary: Wade Hampton biographer discusses “the wealthiest man in the Confederacy”, Confederate cavalry general Wade Hampton. Brett’s Summary: Gerry’s sixth season of Civil War Talk Radio picks up right where the show left off last […]

  • Back From San Diego

    We’re back!  My family had a GREAT time in San Diego, but it’s good to be home.  Back to Civil War blogging in a day or two, but I’ll end this little note with a picture of my 9-month old seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time…

  • Review: While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War

    While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series) by Charles W. Sanders Product Details Hardcover: 390 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (October 2005) Language: English ISBN: 0807130613 Civil War Prisoner of War history is a very simple four-note song […]

  • Fort Sanders Sorority

    Well, sort of. Some of the Confederate trenches near Fort Sanders have been unearthed while constructing a new building at University of Tennessee. Fire pits and ruts from cannon wheels are still visible in places. Archaeologists also uncovered soldier’s belt buckles, ammunition, pottery, and firing mechanisms for the cannons. But the most significant find is […]

  • Wilderness Walmart OK’d

    Bad news. Looks like the Wilderness Walmart will go in after all. ORANGE, Va. – Local officials early Tuesday approved a Walmart Supercenter near one of the nation’s most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and hundreds of historians. The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to grant […]

  • Fake Photos Revisited

    The venerable New York Times carries a section today about fake photos, including Lincoln’s head pasted on John C. Calhoun’s body and a really elaborate paste-up of US Grant made from three photos. There’s an excellent web site devoted to this sort of fakery, The Museum of Hoaxes. Photo fakery started as soon as the […]