TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: April 2006

  • Review In Brief: Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory

    Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Books on the Civil War and Film My Film History Books Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory. Neil Longley York. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (May 2001). 176 pp. 1 map, many illustrations. I’ve been a film history buff almost as long as I’ve been […]

  • Gettysburg Then & Now Pt.2

    Last time I blogged about the street fighting in Gettysburg at the Farnsworth House. Lets move down the street toward the town center to the next sharpshooter spot, the Shriver House. G.W. Shriver owned this commodious two story house tha also featured a saloon in the basement and a “ten-pin” alley in a shed behind […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: April 28, 2006

    Air Date: 042806 Subject: Patrick Brennan: The Battle of Secessionville Book:Secessionville: Assault on Charleston Guest: Patrick Brennan Summary: If Isaac Stevens hadn’t been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of 1862 with […]

  • Blogging Lawsuit

    I just read an interesting entry over at Andy MacIsaac’s blog First Maine Forward. Apparently, a blogger in the State of Maine is getting sued by the Maine Department of Tourism due to criticism he posted on his blog about Maine’s latest ad campaign proposal. As Andy points out, this seems rather ludicrous and basically […]

  • Take Command: Second Manassas Wins Award Of Excellence from Wargamer.com

    Take Command: Second Manassas, already receiving glowing reviews shortly after release, was today awarded Wargamer.com’s “Award for Excellence”. Read the Wargamer.com review of the game HERE. Check out Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online for the latest on the Siege of Petersburg!

  • Sources Used in the Making of Take Command: Second Manassas

    Since Take Command: Second Manassas is now out, I thought I’d pass along the sources the Mad Minute Games team used in making the game. As a playtester for two companies (MMG and HPS), it never ceases to amaze me how they always strive to make things as accurate as humanly possible given the time […]

  • Gettysburg Then & Now

    One of the fun things about researching a book is finding something new, or rather something that Check out Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online for the latest on the Siege of Petersburg!