TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: August 2008

  • The Civil War Network Debuts Today

    The Civil War Network has released its first program for your listening pleasure.  Go check it out!  Francis Rose, the blog’s founder, was kind enough to send along the following information: The Civil War Network debuts today Premiere show includes James McPherson, others Washington, DC – With a lineup that includes Pulitzer Prize winning Civil […]

  • Civil War Odds & Ends: August 27, 2008

    It’s been a little while since our last Civil War Odds & Ends, and I’ve seen some pretty interesting Civil War related material on the web lately. The Tipsy Historian shows us the faces of Company I of the 57th Massachusetts, a regiment which saw itself decimated in Grant’s Overland Campaign of 1864. The 57th […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio Returns on Friday

    Gerry Prokopowicz will again get comfortable in his role as Civil War Talk Radio’s host on Friday, August 29, 2008 after a well-deserved summer off.  According to Dimitri Rotov at Civil War Bookshelf, author Russell Bonds (Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor) will be appearing as this week’s […]

  • Books on Confederate Diplomacy?

    I recently received an interesting email from TOCWOC reader Alexandra.  Her friend from the Netherlands is looking for some good books on Confederate diplomacy.  She writes: Hello, a friend in the Netherlands has asked me to find him a book to read on his vacation. This is what he said he wants: Hello Alexandra, I […]

  • Stop Wal-Mart at the Wilderness Battlefield

    The Civil War blogosphere is alive with concern over Wal-Mart’s recently released plan to build a Super Wal-Mart just north of the Wilderness battlefield. I wanted to make sure to add my voice in opposition to this Wal-Mart. There are FOUR other Wal-Mart’s in a 20 mile radius, for crying out loud! A Super Wal-Mart […]

  • Secession news

    Secession—it’s not just a Southern thing any more. Perhaps these fire-eating DNC protesters have been reading Professor Somin’s exegesis on the subject.

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: August 2008

    Last month I took a look at the Amazon.com top 10 Civil War bestsellers.  Now I’d like to take a look again and see how (if?) this list has changed much over time. I’ve taken the liberty of removing non-Civil War related books from the list.  The books below are in the Civil War top […]