Month: January 2011

  • The Battle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg: July 3, 1863

    The Battle for The Bliss Farm: July 3, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg by James W. Durney Gettysburg is the most studied battle in American History, Noah Andre Trudeau in “Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage” apologized for adding to the weight of books on the battle and called writing about Gettysburg a cottage industry.  […]

  • The National Tribune: The Postwar Mouthpiece of the GAR is Online!

    Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. While in the process of reading John J. Fox’s excellent new book on the defense of Fort Gregg and Fort Whitworth at Petersburg, I ran across several references to the National Tribune, a monthly and then weekly newspaper published from […]

  • Call in to BackStory’s Civil War Show on January 30, 2011

    Catherine Moore, a producer of Charlottesville’s Virginia Foundation for the Humanities radio show BackStory, reached out to TOCWOC recently to spread the word about their upcoming January 30, 2011 radio show.  It will be composed entirely of Civil War students calling in and getting their questions answered.  I encourage TOCWOC readers to check it out!  […]

  • Thomas Lowry Admits Falsifying Document, Then Recants

    The saga of historian Thomas Lowry, who had admitted falsifying a pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln earlier this week, got a bit murkier today when he denied doing it. In a phone interview Tuesday, Lowry recanted his confession and said he offered repeated denials to Archives investigators over the course of a two-hour interview but […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg

    Editor’s Note: This Civil War book review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater earlier today. Hess, Earl J. Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg. The University of South Carolina Press (September 30, 2010). 352 pp., 45 illustrations, maps, order of battle, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-57003-922-5 $44.95 (Cloth). […]

  • Book Review: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn By Nathaniel Philbrick Product Details Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Viking Adult; 1St Edition (May 4, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0670021725 ISBN-13: 978-0670021727 Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 1.9 inches 150 years after George Armstrong Custer’s first appearance in the American Civil […]

  • BTC Notes: A Detailed New Way to Look at Siege of Petersburg Materials

    Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Introducing BTC Notes at The Siege of Petersburg Online BTC Notes is a new feature at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater which takes a detailed look at Petersburg Campaign materials such as books, articles, essays, maps, […]