TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: April 2008

  • Update: James Durney’s Book Notes for May 2008 is Rescheduled

    My apologies to Jim Durney.  I somehow posted a much-shortened version of his monthly book notes on Friday.  Look for the revised and full version to appear bright and early on Monday morning.  And go check out his reviews at Amazon.com!

  • Odds & Ends: April 26, 2008

    If you’re a regular reader, you’re well aware of my Odds & Ends column.  For anyone new stumbling on this post after a search, let me briefly explain.  Odds & Ends is a semi-regular series which attempts to pull together some of the recent interesting happenings and news about the Civil War.  You might see […]

  • A Very Fine Whitworth (and much more)

    I always enjoy window shopping on the Damon Mills web site, wishing I had the money to buy some of the old guns there. Just sold (for a mere $18,500) is a very fine sporting Whitworth with case and full kit. The decorative work on this rifle is impressive, and is obviously something that only […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: April 25, 2008

    Air Date: 042508 Subject: The Origins of Southern White Identity in the Slave Holding South Book: The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir’s Civil War (New Narratives in American History) Guest: Professor William L. Barney Summary: Professor William L. Barney discusses his new book The Making of a Confederate, about a man whose family owns […]

  • Statistics of Deadly Quarrels

    If war interests you I recommend an article in American Scientist online, “Statistics of Deadly Quarrels,” which takes a look at the work of British mathematician and meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson, who attempted a mathematical analysis of war and unpleasantness generally. In organizing his data, Richardson borrowed a crucial idea from astronomy: He classified wars […]

  • Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    I received Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory in the mail on Tuesday from Fordham University Press.  As a German-American, this particular book has special meaning for me. Christian B. Keller ties the scapegoating of the predominantly German Union XI Corps after Chancellorsville to a slowed process of assimilation by German-Americans […]

  • Brett’s Civil War Book Collection

    Jim Miller over at Civil War Notebook has posted his entire Civil War Non-Fiction book collection online. I’ve been in the process of cataloging my own collection lately, except I’ve been using Excel instead of Word. I’ve uploaded the file to the web, but I still have maybe 150 books to go, almost all of […]