TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: April 2009

  • In the Review Queue: Thunder From a Clear Sky: Stovepipe Johnson’s Confederate Raid on Newbergh, Indiana

    The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog.  These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. Author Ray Mulesky was kind enough to send along […]

  • Book News

    Indiana University Press is having an “Intellectual Stimulus Package” sale, and it’s worth your while to take a look. The Civil War section has knockdowns of up to 84%, making it a great way to expand your library. If you’re interested in the ’64 Valley Campaign I recommend Jim Leeke’s Hundred Days to Richmond, which […]

  • TOCWOC Reader Tools: How to Use the ShareThis Feature

    Note: This post is one of a series on TOCWOC Reader Tools,  tools which allow you the reader to better navigate through what is a rapidly growing blog to find/do exactly what you came here for. I thought I’d give readers a brief look at the new ShareThis feature I’ve implemented here at TOCWOC – […]

  • Robert Duvall, Lawmakers to Commemorate Battle of the Wilderness

    Jim Campi of the Civil War Preservation Trust sends this along: MEDIA ADVISORY:ROBERT DUVALL, LAWMAKERS, TO COMMEMORATE ANNIVERSARY OF BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS (Orange County, Va.) Academy and Emmy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall, who portrayed his famous ancestor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the 2003 film Gods and Generals, will speak at a news […]

  • Review: Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America

    Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America (Paperback) by Evan Carton (Author) Product Details Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Bison Books (April 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0803219466 ISBN-13: 978-0803219465 Inconsistencies and excesses In the Civil War’s Emancipation Tradition John Brown is one of the major players, the doomed idealist, martyred by the evil […]

  • Short Takes

    Haven’t had much time to blog lately as I have been getting out another book. Nothing to do with the Civil War, this one’s the fourth edition of River Rescue, first published way back in 1985. If anyone out there in our radio audience is a canoeist, kayaker, or rafter, it might interest you. Did […]

  • George McClellan: An Essay, Part 2

    Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan.  If you haven’t read Part 1, do so now! Next, CSA Major General John B. Magruder does an outstanding job convincing everyone that Pinkerton’s estimates are correct.  Historians dismiss Magruder’s work as poor performance by McClellan.  However, using entrenchments, bugle […]