TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Welcome back to TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog and thanks for reading!Longtime student of the Petersburg Campaign and author of an unpublished manuscript on First and Second Deep Bottom Bryce A. Suderow was kind enough to offer up his opinions on the campaign in a recent comment here at TOCWOC – A Civil War [...]

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Civil War Odds & Ends looks at recent interesting Civil War news and notes from around the Civil War blogosphere and the web.

Wargames Illustrated #261 will feature Civil War cavalry miniatures.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch features an article about the inaugural event of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the America Civil War Commission.
Archived webcasts of the event are [...]

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Why Are These Summaries Showing Up Late?
Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 45, Number 10 (January 2007)
Civil War Times Illustrated Web Site

Mail Call…..4
Turning Points: Arming the Confederacy…..9
Josiah Gorgas
by Jeffry D. Wert
This month Turning Points looks at Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Ornance Bureau.
Gallery: South Carolina Volunteer…..13
Wiliam N. Gaston
submitted by John Porter Gaston III
William Gaston [...]

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Obituaries of renowned Grant scholar John Y. Simon have started to appear.  Hat tip to Brooks Simpson for pointing out the following links.  Brooks takes issue with the New York Times obituary, especially some of the comments attributed to Harold Holzer.  He recommends two articles coming out much closer to Simon’s home in Carbondale, [...]

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This Odds & Ends contains quite a few links from the Civil War blogs.  I’m trying to fill in just a bit for the recently retired This Week in Civil War Blogs formerly run by Civil War Interactive, but I doubt I’d ever have time to fill in on a permanent basis.  I’d like to [...]

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It’s time for another edition of O&E for your browsing enjoyment:

The Civil War bread riots in Richmond (hat tip to the latest History Carnival) at Axis of Evel Knievel

Lee White at Army of Tennessee links to an excellent Grady McWhiney talk on Braxton Bragg

An interesting interview of Joseph W. Glatthaar about his new book [...]

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I never quite grasped where such strong feelings towards the Confederacy come from. Some southerners (certainly not all) pine for and bemoan a government that barely existed 150 years ago- a country founded in war and never tested for its mettle outside that war. As a “northerner” born and [...]

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