TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

If you’re new To TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or go check out the Best of TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. Thanks for visiting!Last week I looked at a study by a serving US Army officer, Maj. Thomas Erhart, about the need for longer [...]

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The range at which an enemy soldier can be engaged on the battlefield is a factor that has occupied both soldiers and pundits since the invention of firearms. In Civil War circles much of the recent controversy has centered around Paddy Griffith’s revisionist work Battle Tactics of the Civil War, in which he argued that [...]

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UPDATE 2: Kathy Buker pointed out in the comments below that the official URL for the Nafziger collection is: http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.htm
UPDATE: I’ve finally managed to download all of the OOB files via a script provided by a friend and noticed that many of the American Civil War orders of battle are missing for some reason.  I’ve [...]

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I received an email from Timothy Wroten of The New-York Historical Society concerning the upcoming museum exhibit on Abraham Lincoln’s famous 1860 Cooper Union speech.  In his speech, Lincoln covered the topic of slavery and how to deal with that issue in new territories, the characterization of the Republican party as a “sectional” rather than [...]

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Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater and has been reposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.
I’ve added a new Battles and Leaders section under the Resources tab in the top menu of Beyond the Crater. For those of you who don’t know, Battles and Leaders of the Civil [...]

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I was browsing the web for Quarterly Ordnance Returns (i.e. the type and number of weapons each unit had at a given time) for the Army of the Potomac. I found a gem at the Fredericksburg National Battlefield site. Historian Eric Mink apparently transcribed the Ordnance returns for the Army of the Potomac [...]

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A recent blog entry at the MoGSA Messenger, the Official Weblog of the Missouri State Genealogical Association discusses Civil War digitization projects at the Kansas City Public Library and the Springfield-Greene County Library District.  While the Kansas City area project is just getting started, the Springfield area project has a flourishing website called Community & [...]

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