Month: April 2009
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Interview with Campaign Chancellorsville Designer Rich Walker
Rich Walker, designer of the new HPS Civil War computer game Campaign Chancellorsville, was kind enough to answer a few questions about his work as a designer and the new game via email. Rich has designed multiple Civil War games for HPS Simulations at this point, including Campaign Franklin, Campaign Atlanta, Campaign Shiloh, Campaign Antietam, […]
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New Civil War Blog: Ohio at Perryville
I recently discovered a new Civil War blog covering the contributions of Ohio units at the Battle of Perryville called, appropriately enough, Ohio at Perryville. Blog owner Darryl Smith describes the purpose of Ohio at Perryville as follows: As the title indicates, this blog is about the participation of Ohio troops at the Battle of […]
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Top 5 Civil War Books on the Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Editor’s Note: There is an updated list of Antietam books I came up with on the 150th Anniversary of the battle. Click here to check it out: The Best Antietam (Sharpsburg) Books I love sharing the knowledge I’ve gained over the years from reading, and reading about, top Civil War books. I’ve also always found […]
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In the Review Queue: The Battle of the Crater: A Complete History
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. After having recently finished several other reviews of McFarland […]
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Civil War Odds & Ends: April 18, 2009
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done an Odds & Ends post, so I’ll go over exactly what it is again here. Civil War Odds & Ends posts are lists of interesting Civil War news stories I come across in my feed reader. The idea is to provide TOCWOC’s readers with some interesting blog posts […]
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Gun Auction
Rock Island Auction Company is having a big gun auction later this month. I always like to look but of course there’s no way I could buy any of them. Just as well, I suppose. There are a couple of Civil War era guns worth looking at. One is a nice 1860s era target rifle, […]
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TOCWOC Reader Tools: Amazon.com Book Links
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 wanted to point out the next useful tool for TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers because I’m […]