TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: October 2009

  • Civil War Talk Radio: October 30, 2009

    Air Date: 103009 Subject: The Beginnings of Lost Cause Romanticism: The Ladies’ Memorial Associations of the South Book: Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause Guest: Dr. Caroline E. Janney Summary: Dr. Caroline Janney discusses the first organizations to characterize the Confederate cause as a noble one. Brett’s […]

  • Thirty Years War

    I’m going a bit afield here to look at a war most people have never heard of—the Thirty Years War. Bear with me, because I’m going to tie it in with the Civil War. Right now I’m working on reviews of several books dealing with guerilla warfare and the treatment of civilians, and as we’ll […]

  • Review: A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi

    A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi (Hardcover) by Jeffery S. Prushankin Product Details Hardcover: 308 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (December 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807130885 ISBN-13: 978-0807130889 Who is the enemy? The war between general officers can be as interesting as the war […]

  • Review: The General and Monaville, Texas

    The General and Monaville, Texas By Joe G. Bax 168 pages Aug. 1, 2009 Emerald Book Company Touching on a piece of history that I think is too often overlooked, author Joe G. Bax successfully paints a vivid picture of a small Texas town during the tumultuous period that followed the Civil War. With a […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: October 2009

    It has been quite awhile since we last looked at the Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War bestsellers list.  In fact, you have to go all the way back to the May 2009 Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War bestsellers list.  I’ve enjoyed keeping an eye on this list to see how books move over time, and […]

  • Review: The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

      The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta By Marc Wortman Marc Wortman hasn’t so much written a book about the siege and burning of Atlanta as he has written a history of Atlanta covering approximately fifty years from its founding until its surrender to the army of William Tecumseh Sherman and its ultimate […]

  • Gary Yee’s Sharpshooter Book

    Generalissimo Gary Yee has informed me that his long-awaited book Sharpshooters (1750-1900), The Men, Their Guns, Their Story will be out shortly. Can’t tell you much more than that since the web site isn’t up yet, but it promises to be the most complete work on the subject yet. I’ve never met Gary but we’ve […]