TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: September 2007

  • Our disappearing rural landscape

    Every day as I drive around south-central Pennsylvania and also during occasional trips into Maryland and Northern Virginia on business, I am reminded at how much of this area’s once beautiful pastoral countryside is being swallowed up by new housing developments. The area around York and Gettysburg just a decade ago still had some faint […]

  • G.K. Warren- A different look at an American Soldier..Part 1

    During my reading of the Civil War, there have been (For that matter still are) numerous personalties that have caught my eye. Daniel Sickles comes to mind right off the top of my head, (Email me if you would like to know who he was and why I hold him in low esteem) then Jeb […]

  • Antietam

    I recently spent some time in Sharpsburg, Maryland, recently for parts of the 145th Anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Antietam, a special event since several of my family fought there. The Antietam Visitors Center bookstore sells my Human Interest Stories from Antietam, and I signed several dozen copies for the store’s inventory. My son and […]

  • Review: “What this Cruel War was Over”

    In the great debate of Slavery Vs. State’s rights, there is a new recruit on the field. One who immensely researched letters, diaries, and journals from soldiers on the front line to get, straight from their own mouths, what they as individuals were fighting over. Chandra Manning’s What This Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, […]

  • “The Mad Wargamer Checks In”

    I am Scott L. Mingus, Sr., a patented scientist, published Civil War author, blogger, and miniature wargamer currently living not far from the Gettysburg battlefield. Brett asked me to participate occasionally in this TOCWOC forum. Years ago, folks on a popular Civil War messageboard nicknamed me “the Mad Wargamer,” mixing my activities as a mad […]

  • An Extremely Valuable Resource

    I wanted to make you all aware of an extremely valuable resource. As a publisher of books, I’m aware of the value of print-on-demand (“POD”) publishing. POD makes it possible for a publisher to have a book in its inventory that may only sell five or six copies over the course of a year. If […]

  • Old Blog Posts From Brett Schulte’s Blog Added

    Just a quick note. From September 2005-February 2007, I ran the now defunct American Civil War Gaming & Reading blog. I figured out how to get the old blog entries imported into this blog, and I have done so for entries from September 2o05-June 2006. I unfortunately cannot find an archived importable file for posts […]