TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: May 2009

  • HPS Patches Campaign Shiloh and Campaign Chickamauga

    I missed the fact that HPS Simulations released patches for Campaign Shiloh and Campaign Chickamauga over the Memorial Day weekend. Campaign Shiloh has been patched to version 1.06.  Click to read the list of changes to Campaign Shiloh, or check out the changes below: Changes for Campaign Shiloh 1.06 New weather scenarios added Dual graphics […]

  • TOCWOC Reader Tools: Sharing Posts Is Sexy!

    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. Another recent plugin I’ve installed here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog is the SexyBookmarks WordPress Plugin, which […]

  • Top 10 Civil War Books on the Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg Civil War Blogs Series

    After recently writing a bog entry on the Top 5 Civil War Books on the Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862, I decided to write out a Top 10 list for the campaign and battle of Gettysburg.  However, Gettysburg is a completely different proposition than any other Civil War battle.  Literally thousands […]

  • Review: The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy

    Chaffin, Tom. The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. Hill and Wang (September 30, 2008). 352 pages, maps, illustrations, index. ISBN: 978-0-8090-9512-4 $26.00 (Hardcover). What was the name of the first underwater craft to sink an enemy warship in action?  Many Civil War buffs probably know the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is the […]

  • Short Takes

    Real world has been intruding again, leaving little time for blogging. Nevertheless… A group of academics, some of them historians, urged President Obama not to lay a wreath at the Confederate memorial in Arlington on Memorial Day. One of them was James McPherson. Now my opinion of McP has been declining for a while, as […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: May 2009

    I’ve decided to do the Abraham Lincoln Amazon.com Top 10 bestsellers on a bi-monthly basis since the topic doesn’t fit this blog as well as the Top 10 Civil War bestsellers.  Check out the April 2009 Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War bestsellers if you haven’t already, and look for the next Abe Top 10 in […]

  • Top 10 Civil War Blogs Redux

    I recently came up with a list of the Top 10 Civil War Blogs I read on a daily basis, and inadvertently omitted Rene Tyree’s excellent Wig-Wags blog from my list.  With that omission in mind, I reflected on those blogs which narrowly missed the cut and decided to come up with another list of […]