TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Enlisted Men

  • “The stuff of the troops”

    One of the few criticisms I got on my sharpshooter book was in quoting this passage: It became painfully apparent that, however inferior the Confederate armies were in point of education and general intelligence to the men of the Union, man for man they were the superiors of their northern antagonists in the use of […]

  • The Experiences of Civil War Soldiers In Several Parts

    I’ve been meaning to offer up a review of The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers for quite a long time now, but it was one of those books which has managed to stay near the top of my “to be read” list without ever actually getting read…until now.  Edited by Aaron […]

  • Human Interest Stories From Antietam: Vignette 4

    Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the last of four entries I hope to devote to the subject. I’ll […]

  • Dave Powell Comments on The Hard Hand of War

    Dave Powell posted an excellent and lengthy response to my recent review of Mark Grimsley’s The Hard Hand of War in the comments section following the entry.  Dave brings up a great point about the lack of studies examining Confederate soldiers’ destruction of their own civilian property.  In order to allow the most people to […]

  • Human Interest Stories From Antietam: Vignette 3

    Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the third of four entries I hope to devote to the subject. I’ll […]

  • Further Discussion on Mark Grimsley’s The Hard Hand of War

    In an interesting coincidence, Mark Grimsley blogged about his recent remarks at the March 29 Organization of American Historians round table. Why coincidence you say? Because Mark spoke about the destructiveness of the Civil War around the same time I was reviewing and blogging about The Hard Hand of War, his book on the subject. […]

  • Human Interest Stories From Antietam: Vignette 2

    Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the second of four entries I hope to devote to the subject. I’ll […]