TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: September 2008

  • Fiction Review:The Wake of the Woonsocket by Les Eldridge

    The Wake of the Woonsocket: The Continuing Adventures of Rory Dunbrody, CSN and Tobias St. John, USN by Les Eldridge, ISBN 978-0-9794847-1-1, Leeward Coast Press-Softocver-$18.95 I must first admit that I have not read the first two installments of Lee Eldridge’s planned quartet of Civil War sea novels, so chronologically I am coming into the […]

  • Review: The Disagreement by Nick Taylor

    The Disagreement: A Novel by Nick Taylor, ISBN 978-1416550655, Simon & Schuster, © 2008, 360 Pages – Hardcover (7×10) – $24.95 It was a time of metamorphosis, when civilians became soldiers, boys changed into men, and the enslaved set free. A nation torn asunder, North from South, peacetime transformed into a time of war, the innocence […]

  • Black Confederates

    Update: Welcome to TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog for those of you who have found this page through a Google Search!  If you enjoy what you’re about to read below, feel free to Subscribe to TOCWOC’s RSS feed.  Be sure to check out the Civil War Book Reviews which have been posted here and […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: September 19, 2008

    Air Date: 091908 Subject: Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign Books: Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign Guest: Peter Cozzens Summary: Peter Cozzens discusses his new book on the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Brett’s Summary: Gerry leads off the hour by mentioning he feels as if he has known Peter Cozzens for a long time.  […]

  • The Civil War Network, Program 2: September 16, 2008

    The Civil War Network released its second podcast on September 16, 2008.  Francis mentions the availability of individual programs on CD as well. As I mentioned in my blog entry on Program 1, I plan to do brief summaries of the interviews Francis Rose conducts just as I have been doing for Gerry Prokopowicz’s Civil […]

  • Civil War Times Illustrated, January 2007

    Why Are These Summaries Showing Up Late? Civil War Times Illustrated Volume 45, Number 10 (January 2007) Civil War Times Illustrated Web Site Mail Call…..4 Turning Points: Arming the Confederacy…..9 Josiah Gorgas by Jeffry D. Wert This month Turning Points looks at Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Ornance Bureau. Gallery: South Carolina […]

  • Catching Up On Civil War Magazine Back Issues

    Some of TOCWOC’s (and American Civil War Gaming and Reading’s) readers may remember my summaries of Civil War magazines.  I also have a site called the American Civil War Magazine and Journal Index, which will eventually hopefully hold summaries of many of the Civil War magazines produced since the 1960s.  I’ve fallen WAY behind over […]