TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: June 2008

  • Join the Civil War Top 100

    Many of the readers of this blog are Civil War bloggers or perhaps run a Civil War web site.  If so, I encourage you to check out Chris Wehner’s Civil War Top 100 web site.  Chris was kind enough to take over the maintenance of this page from me several years ago. What is a […]

  • Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States Has Been Released

    Matrix Games has announced in a press release that Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States is now available for immediate purchase.  I’ll be hosting mods created for the game at The Macon Armory – A GGWBTS Mod Site. Fix the bayonets and prepare to charge, this turn-based American Civil War strategy tour-de-force is coming your […]

  • A Confederate Vice President?

    No, I don’t mean John C. Breckinridge. I mean Virginia senator James Webb, who is apparently being considered for the Democratic ticket. Suddenly, pundits are discovering his address on Confederate soldiers in Arlington Cemetery and his mention of the role of the Scots-Irish (including his ancestors) on the losing side in the Late Unpleasantness. It […]

  • New Civil War Blog

    I was making the round of the Civil War blogosphere this evening when I stumbled on Brian Downey’s mention of Steven Mynes’ new Civil War blog Civil War Battles and Battlefields. Steven says, “I have been studying the Civil War and touring battlefields for over 20 years” in the About Me section of his new […]

  • John Lynn on Military History

    NOTE: Hat tip to John Maass at A Student of History blog. John Lynn, Professor of History at my alma mater, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, has an excellent article up at the National Association of Scholars web site. Professor Lynn has been teaching, researching, and writing about military history for many years longer […]

  • Odds & Ends: June 10, 2008

    It’s been a little while since the last Odds & Ends column, so I’ll throw another one out there for readers to chew on: A discussion focusing on American Civil War games and fog of war Chris Wehner has a nice entry on Civilian Casualties as a Direct Result of the Civil War John Burns […]

  • Review in Brief: Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess

    Earl J. Hess. Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (April 6, 2005). 464 pp., 23 maps, appendices, notes, index. ISBN: 0-8078-2931-5 $45.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). Earl Hess sets out to chronicle the use of fortifications during the Eastern Campaigns of the […]