TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

Early this week, the East Coast had a bad spell of winter weather to contend with, one of the few times we have done so this winter. As I was driving home Tuesday afternoon, I didn’t realize I was one of the lucky ones. My 14-mile commute only took a little more than an [...]

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I spent last weekend driving over a good bit of Warren, Loudoun, Fairfax and Fauquier counties with a tour group from Michigan. We were visiting Mosby sites, from the Oakham Farm, where Mosby’s partisan career started, to Salem (Marshall), where he disbanded the command rather than surrender it to the enemy. We did walking tours [...]

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I am heading out to
Winchester tomorrow morning to begin preparations for the North-South Skirmish Association’s 116th National Skirmish, which will be held October 3-7. For those of you unfamiliar with the N-SSA, we shoot live ammunition in Civil War military arms ranging all the way from revolvers to cannon. Twice a year, the third weekend [...]

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Stuart’s joke lands woman in jail, but she weds a Northern officer
When the American Civil War began in 1861, Antonia Ford was a 23-year-old woman living in Fairfax Court House, Virginia, in the home of her father, a prominent local businessman. The Ford family was secessionist, and Antonia’s brother, Charles, enlisted in the Confederate cavalry. [...]

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Welcome to TOCWOC! That name was actually born on the Compuserve Civil War Forum, where I have been assistant sysop almost from the forum’s creation. We coined the phrase as a virtual award we presented to our members who woke up one morning and suddenly realized studying the Civil War is not something they do; [...]

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