Month: February 2010

  • BTC: How to Find a Specific Page of a Primary Source

    Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online and has been crossposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. Since I first started Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online, I’ve wanted to give researchers and deep readers a way to look (and possibly cite) specific pages of […]

  • Combat Trash Talkin’

    I found this amusing, from Afghanistan, about the verbal war between the Afghan Army and the Taliban. The foes chatter with each other over their Vietnam-era, two-way radio system. It’s such an antiquated system that the Taliban and the Afghan forces share radio frequencies, and verbal barbs, as they try to kill or capture one […]

  • Nafziger Collection of Civil War (and other) Orders of Battle Now FREE Online

    UPDATE 2: Kathy Buker pointed out in the comments below that the official URL for the Nafziger collection is: http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.htm UPDATE: I’ve finally managed to download all of the OOB files via a script provided by a friend and noticed that many of the American Civil War orders of battle are missing for some reason.  […]

  • 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address

    I received an email from Timothy Wroten of The New-York Historical Society concerning the upcoming museum exhibit on Abraham Lincoln’s famous 1860 Cooper Union speech.  In his speech, Lincoln covered the topic of slavery and how to deal with that issue in new territories, the characterization of the Republican party as a “sectional” rather than […]

  • Review: Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858

    Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858 by Craig Miner Product Details Hardcover: 305 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (September 3, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616128 ISBN-13: 978-0700616121 “Bleeding Kansas” stirs the blood and invokes images from our national memory over 150 years after the event.  One of the first violent national […]

  • New Primary Source: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

    Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater and has been reposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. I’ve added a new Battles and Leaders section under the Resources tab in the top menu of Beyond the Crater. For those of you who don’t know, Battles and Leaders of the Civil […]

  • Review: Virginia at War, 1863

    Davis, William C. & Robertson, Jr., James I. (editors). Virginia at War, 1863 (2008). 232 pages, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2510-7 $35.00 (Hardcover). Virginia at War, 1863 is the third entry in a series of five essay books on Virginia in the Civil War.  The book, edited by well known Civil War historians William C. Davis […]