TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: April 2009

  • Three Civil War Computer Games Patched

    Recent patches have come out for three Civil War computer games.  Forge of Freedom from Western Civilization and Matrix Games has been updated to version 1.12.2.  Campaign Atlanta from HPS Simulations has been updated to version 1.03.  HPS’ newest Civil War game, Campaign Chancellorsville, is now at version 1.01. Check out more Civil War computer […]

  • Review: Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

    Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War by Marc Egnal Product Details Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Hill and Wang (January 6, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 080909536X ISBN-13: 978-0809095360 The Emancipation Tradition maintains that slavery is the cause of the Civil War.  The North found slavery so morally unacceptable that they were willing […]

  • George McClellan: An Essay, Part 1

    Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan. McClellan has come down to us as a poor general, a vain man with possibly Pro Southern leanings.  An Illustration of the contradictions in the man is in his running as the Democratic candidate for President in 1864.  A platform […]

  • Review: A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables

    This is the fourth and final review of the inaugural titles in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in the series in terms of regimental history length, amount of annotation, depth and print size […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Abraham Lincoln Bestsellers: April 2009

    Due to the growing number of Abraham Lincoln books being released, I will now be doing a monthly Amazon.com Top 10 Abraham Lincoln Books series in addition to the Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War Books series.  Readers who are looking for Abraham Lincoln books can’t go wrong selecting titles from this list. As in each […]

  • Civil War Tokens

    You can buy a lot of expensive gold and silver coins at American Precious Metals Exchange, but you can also buy Civil War tokens of various of various kinds. Their web site explains that: … economic pressures were felt as early as 1862 when the phenomenon known as Gresham’s Law took effect and the public […]

  • Whose Father Was He?: Erroll Morris on The Mystery Soldier of Gettysburg

    TOCWOC Reader Joe Laird send me an email last week pointing out an excellent five part series of blog entries by filmmaker Erroll Morris at his blog Zoom on the New York Times web site.  Joe’s email reads as follows: Each day this week the New York Times ran a portion of a five-part essay […]