TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

Cross-posted from my blog:
Several weeks ago, the monument to the 6th New York Cavalry on McPherson’s Ridge at Gettysburg took a direct hit by a bolt of lighting, which nearly blew the monument apart. I took this photo on October 21. Here’s a press release from the National Park Service relating to the damage [...]

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Centex Homes of Texas gets kudos for its willingness to work with local preservation groups so as to save a battlefield but still get to develop the land surrounding the battlefield. In an unprecedented partnership that should serve as the template for all such efforts, Centex agreed to carve out the Bristoe Station battlefield site [...]

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This was cross-posted on my blog earlier tonight.
I own the complete run of Gettysburg Magazine, all 37 issues. For those keeping score, at two issues per year, that makes 19 years’ worth of magazines. It’s the ONLY magazine that I’ve EVER purchased where I’ve kept every single issue, including North and South, where [...]

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I wanted to make you all aware of an extremely valuable resource.
As a publisher of books, I’m aware of the value of print-on-demand (”POD”) publishing. POD makes it possible for a publisher to have a book in its inventory that may only sell five or six copies over the course of a year. [...]

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I wanted to introduce myself briefly. Many of you know me from my books, and some of you probably know me from my own blog. Fear not: Rantings of a Civil War Historian will go on uninterrupted, and will remain my primary blogging outlet. I’m simply adding to it by joining [...]

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Drew Wagenhoffer had a piece on his blog this week about lawyers who write Civil War history. He had a list of us, myself included. Fortunately, most of us are well-respected names like Gordon Rhea, Kent Masterson Brown, Russel

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I’ve always been one to buck settled history. In my mind, the only way to make sure that history remains a living, breathing, evolving thing is to challenge its settled assumptions. Properly and responsibly done, revisionism can be a powerful and welcome tool that causes us all to sit back and ask whether [...]

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