TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Best of TOCWOC – 2009

  • Top 10 Civil War Blogs Redux

    I recently came up with a list of the Top 10 Civil War Blogs I read on a daily basis, and inadvertently omitted Rene Tyree’s excellent Wig-Wags blog from my list.  With that omission in mind, I reflected on those blogs which narrowly missed the cut and decided to come up with another list of […]

  • Interview with Mac Wyckoff: Author of A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables

    Mac Wyckoff is the author of A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables, a new entry in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set published by Broadfoot Publishing.  He has been a student of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment for over 20 years, wrote a unit history of the 3rd South Carolina (which is […]

  • Top 10 Civil War Blogs

    Update: I’ve added another Top 10 Civil War Blogs list, this time focusing on blogs which just missed the cut for the initial list below. Since I’ve been on a Top 10 kick here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog recently, I thought it might be fun to do a Top 10 Civil War […]

  • Interview with Campaign Chancellorsville Designer Rich Walker

    Rich Walker, designer of the new HPS Civil War computer game Campaign Chancellorsville, was kind enough to answer a few questions about his work as a designer and the new game via email.  Rich has designed multiple Civil War games for HPS Simulations at this point, including Campaign Franklin, Campaign Atlanta, Campaign Shiloh, Campaign Antietam, […]

  • Top 5 Civil War Books on the Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862

    Editor’s Note:  There is an updated list of Antietam books I came up with on the 150th Anniversary of the battle.  Click here to check it out: The Best Antietam (Sharpsburg) Books I love sharing the knowledge I’ve gained over the years from reading, and reading about, top Civil War books.  I’ve also always found […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Abraham Lincoln Bestsellers: April 2009

    Due to the growing number of Abraham Lincoln books being released, I will now be doing a monthly Amazon.com Top 10 Abraham Lincoln Books series in addition to the Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War Books series.  Readers who are looking for Abraham Lincoln books can’t go wrong selecting titles from this list. As in each […]

  • Interview With Lee Sturkey: Author of Hampton Legion Infantry C.S.A.

    O. Lee Sturkey is the author of Hampton Legion Infantry C.S.A., a new entry in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set published by Broadfoot Publishing.  He has been a student of the Hampton Legion for over 25 years, making Mr. Sturkey a perfect candidate to write a book on a portion of the unit.  The endnotes […]