TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: April 2008

  • Did We’uns Win After All?

    This article on “Southernism” by Michael Hirsch in Newsweak is getting a good bit of buzz on the web. He thinks the South won after all.

  • Review: Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    Christian B. Keller. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press; First Edition (May 15, 2007). 244 pp., 4 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0823226504 $65.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). How serious a blow was the Battle of Chancellorsville to the collective German-American psyche? Christian B. Keller attempts to answer precisely […]

  • Odds & Ends: April 29, 2008

    For your reading pleasure, I present you with my latest gathered “Odds & Ends” of interest to Civil War buffs: Would it have been possible to win the Civil War by never launching an attack? Some surgical statistics of the American Civil War on an RPG forum, a place I never thought I’d see Civil […]

  • Matrix Games Announces Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States

    (Hat tip to Eddy Sterckx.)  In a move that will come as no surprise to regular readers of TOCWOC, Matrix Games late on Monday announced the imminent arrival of Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States. GGWBtS is a computer wargame about the American Civil War set at the grand strategic level. It is the third […]

  • Alabama Flags Need Restoration

    A nice article on Civil War flag restoration in the Montgomery Advertiser.

  • May 2008 Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, review! May 2008 James Durney Book News First, let me correct something from the April column, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam is not close to a thousand pages as reported but just under 600 pages. However, it […]

  • Multiman Publishing is Shipping South Mountain to Preorders

    Multiman Publishing began shipping their new RSS series game South Mountain to those who pre-ordered on Saturday. I’m eagerly looking forward to my copy. As always happens with MMP during the pre-order shipment process, you will not be able to find the game online for a brief period of time. However, when the game is […]