TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: July 2009

  • What State’s Troops Were Called Tarheels During the Civil War?

    That’s an easy one, and I’d guess most of TOCWOC’s readers either a) know the story of this derisive nickname Virginians gave to North Carolina’s soldiers during  the war or b) deduced it was North Carolina due to the University of North Carolina’s Tarheel moniker.  This topic came up recently when TOCWOC reader Wayne sent […]

  • Review: The New Civil War Handbook

    Hughes, Mark. The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages. Savas Beatie LLC (June 2009, 2008). 144 pages, illustrations, tables, index. ISBN: 978-1932714623 $14.95 (Paperback). How do I introduce my children to the Civil War?  It’s a question I’ve heard asked by others and now that I have a child […]

  • Dead of Winter: Battle of Stones River (GBACW Series) Is Shipping to Preorders

    Dead of Winter: Battle of Stones River, the latest Civil War board game in the venerable Great Battles of the American Civil War Series, is now being shipped to all those who pre-ordered the game, including me.  The following information from the game’s information page gives some more detail: Dead of Winter is GMT’s recreation […]

  • Sad Day in Blighty

    In an end to three centuries of small arms leadership, Britain has announced that it will no longer make its own rifles. England has long been a leader in small arms development, both by the government Enfield factory and private manufacturers, with a storied past going back to the Brown Bess and including Civil War […]

  • America’s Civil War, Volume 22, Number 4 (September 2009) Posted

    An index and summary of America’s Civil War, Volume 22, Number 4 (September 2009) has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index. Harry Smeltzer has his own rundown of this issue at Bull Runnings. Did you enjoy this blog entry?  Please consider using the ShareThis feature below to spread the word […]

  • The Words of Abraham Lincoln

    Shapiro, Larry (ed.). The Words of Abraham Lincoln. Newmarket Press (April 14, 2009). 113 pages. ISBN: 978-1557048301 $11.95 (Paperback). In this 200th anniversary year of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, we’ve seen an explosion of Lincoln titles on the market.  Included in this list is The Words of Abraham Lincoln, a short title in the […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Abraham Lincoln Bestsellers: July 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 […]