TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Best of TOCWOC – 2009

  • Joseph R. Reinhart Responds to Chancellorsville and the Germans Review

    I recently received a long and interesting email from TOCWOC reader Joseph R. Reinhart about my review of Christian Keller’s book Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory.  Mr. Reinhart has been researching German-American involvement in the Civil War for over 15 years.  He is the editor of August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen: […]

  • An Interview With Tom Broadfoot of Broadfoot Publishing

    Tom Broadfoot, owner of Broadfoot Publishing, was kind enough to answer a few questions recently about his Civil War publishing company and the new South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series of books. BRS: Thank you for agreeing to an interview Tom.  I really appreciate it.  Broadfoot Publishing is well-known by Civil War buffs as a quality […]

  • An Interview With Author Jim Parrish

    UPDATE: Drew Wagenhoffer has a complimentary review of Parrish’s book on Civil War Books and Authors. John Fox, the man behind Angle Valley Press, passed along this interview with Jim Parrish, author of the recently-released Wiregrass to Appomattox, a history of the 50th Georgia. I have a copy but have not yet had a chance […]

  • Review: Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign

    Update: Welcome to TOCWOC for those of you who have found this page through a Google Search!  If you enjoy what you’re about to read below, feel free to Subscribe to TOCWOC’s RSS feed.  Be sure to check out the Civil War Book Reviews which have been posted here and browse through TOCWOC founder Brett […]

  • Review: Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas by Benson Bobrick

    Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas by Benson Bobrick Product Details Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 10, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743290259 ISBN-13: 978-0743290258 This is a very well written book about one of our more interesting Civil War generals.  George Thomas has a large vocal fan club […]

  • Review: Hampton Legion Infantry C.S.A. by O. Lee Sturkey

    This is the first of four reviews scheduled for Tuesdays in March.  Each review will cover one of the first four volumes of the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in the series in terms […]

  • Lincoln and the Laws of War

    John Fabian Witt, a professor of legal history at Columbia University, pens an article in Slate about Lincoln’s Laws of War, and how the Bush administration supposedly attempted to destroy them. This is amusing, since when it comes to prosecuting a war George Bush is a pantywaist compared to the Great Emancipator. Witt wraps the […]