Category: TOCWOC Reader Comments

  • Can You Help With The Value of These Classic Civil War Books?

    TOCWOC reader Vic Wilson wrote in asking about the partial set of the Offical Records given to him by his great uncle: Hello. Please help me with some insight on the books I have. My great uncle has given me approx 80 volumes of “War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate […]

  • What State’s Troops Were Called Tarheels During the Civil War?

    That’s an easy one, and I’d guess most of TOCWOC’s readers either a) know the story of this derisive nickname Virginians gave to North Carolina’s soldiers during  the war or b) deduced it was North Carolina due to the University of North Carolina’s Tarheel moniker.  This topic came up recently when TOCWOC reader Wayne sent […]