TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: October 2009

  • Horatio Nelson Taft Diary

    The Library of Congress continues to digitize its collection and make it available online. One of the latest is the diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, who worked in the patent office. Taft was also unusually close to the Lincolns, since their children often played together. Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: October 16, 2009

    Air Date: 101609 Subject: Antietam National Battlefield Web Site:  Antietam National Battlefield Guest: Ted Alexander, Chief Historian at Antietam Summary: Ted Alexander, the Chief Historian at Antietam National Battlefield, talks about his job and the site he has loved since he was a boy. Brett’s Summary: Note: I missed part of the first segment this […]

  • Review: Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg

    Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg (Modern War Studies) by Steven E. Woodworth Product Details Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas; 1st edition, edition (July 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700611274 ISBN-13: 978-0700611270 Steven Woodworth has an excellent reputation as both author and editor.  He has the ability to attract people, who can contribute […]

  • History Carnival 80 is up at Notes From The Field

    This is a bit belated, but I wanted to announce the posting of History Carnival 80 at Notes from the Field.  Although there are no Civil War related posts highlighted this time around, there are quite a few interesting stories there as usual.  If you haven’t already, go check it out!

  • Review: Northern Roses and Southern Belles

    Northern Roses and Southern Belles By Various Authors of the Wild Rose Press The Wild Rose Press has released an anthology of six Civil War romance stories in a collection which they have titled “Northern Roses and Southern Belles.”  Between its covers are tales of Union and Confederate soldiers and the women who loved them, […]

  • Review: Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me

    Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me: The Writings and Saga of American Civil War Soldier George W. Belles By Ron Bardnell In my twenty-one years of doing genealogical research I have documented 59 Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate.  In all my research I have never been fortunate enough to find even one […]

  • Currency and the Press

    It starts with a fake article in a minor newspaper. The dollar drops, gold surges, and the administration panics. In the shadows someone who’s bought gold makes a bundle. Perhaps you’re thinking of a story earlier this week, when an article by Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk in the British newspaper The Independent sent the […]