TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

If you’re new To TOCWOC, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I apologize for not posting Part III earlier, the last few weeks have been very hectic.  To see the other music reviews, please visit
Civil War Music Part I
Civil War Music Part II
Here in the 3rd of my 3 part [...]

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Earlier this week, I wrote about what I classify as Civil War “Field Music” such as fife & drum bands and regimental brass bands. While regimental brass bands can also be used for dance music, I personally categorize dance music as saxhorn bands, string bands, and musical ensembles that include fiddles, banjos, and [...]

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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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As some of you may know, I am a reenactor.  I have had a few new guys join my unit recently, and they wanted a few books to read on “what was life like for a Confederate soldier”.
So, here are the books I suggested, in no particular order-
- “Company Aytch” by Sam Watkins
- “The Life [...]

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This is Part II of my review of “A Legacy in Brick and Stone”
GO HERE FOR PART I OF THIS REVIEW
Author: Weaver, John R. II
Publisher: Redoubt Press, McLean, Virginia
First Printing 2001
ISBN 1-57510-069-X
Hardcover 245 pages (although I have the soft cover edition)
Numerous maps, drawings, photographs, and illustrations
After giving a very good description of the background for [...]

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I came across this book when I visited Fort Pulaski last year for a living history immersion event called “The Immortal 600″ in which I played a Confederate military officer being imprisoned in the casemate at Fort Pulaski, but I will save that for another post!
At any rate, I decided to pick up “A Legacy [...]

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Last weekend was my second trip to Gettysburg. Living in the deep south, some 13 hours away by car, it is sometimes difficult to get to places that we really want to go. That being said, it was my very FIRST time to Culp’s Hill. The first time I went (three years [...]

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Hello. My name is Matthew Young, and I’m a Civil War junkie. That’s why this blog appealed to me so much to begin with. I found it totally by accident while browsing in the AGEOD ACW Forums. The more I read, the more I enjoyed it. I wrote to Brett [...]

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