TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

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I recently received an email from Anita Collins, whose daughter is in a New Jersey Girl Scout Troup.  The girls received a large collection of Civil War magazines that they had planned to donate to a local nursing home, but the nursing home already had plenty of magazines.  At that point, Anita contacted TOCWOC – [...]

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I came across this representation of a target shot a 500 yards by a .577 Enfield and a .451 Whitworth, which shows pretty clearly why the Whitworth made a better sharpshooter’s rifle.

Source: W.W. Greener, The Gun and Its Development (1910)
Google Books now has Life magazine in their collection, and among the issues is a reunion [...]

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An index and summary of America’s Civil War, Volume 22, Number 4 (September 2009) has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index.
Harry Smeltzer has his own rundown of this issue at Bull Runnings.
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An index and summary of Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 26, Number 1 has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index.
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An index and summary of North & South Magazine, Volume 11, Number 4 (August 2009) has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index.
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An index and summary of Charge!: The official Newslette rof the Johnny Reb Gaming Society, Issue 23 has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index.
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