TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: February 2011

  • Siege of Petersburg Beyond the Crater Progress Report: 2/19/2010

    Siege of Petersburg: Beyond the Crater Progress Report: February 19, 2011 It’s been quite awhile (almost a year!) since I last covered the goings on at my other Civil War site, The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.   A LOT has been happening over there, including: Siege of Petersburg Diary and Letter Entries, with […]

  • Who REALLY Caused the Civil War?

    With the Civil War sesquicentennial comes the inevitable fun of even more people arguing past each other about what started the conflict. It was with some amusement, then, that I came across the following explanation in a 1903 regimental history of the 116th Pennsylvania: When the Second Corps massed on the banks of the James […]

  • New Civil War Book: One Continuous Fight in Paperback

    One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 Authors: Eric Wittenberg, J.D. Petruzzi, and Mike Nugent TOCWOC’s Take: One Continuous Fight sets out to correct some long held notions about Meade’s performance in the Army of the Potomac’s pursuit of Lee after the Battle […]

  • McFarland Civil War Book of the Week: The L&N Railroad in the Civil War

    The L&N Railroad in the Civil War: A Vital North-South Link and the Struggle to Control It Author: Dan Lee TOCWOC’s Take: The Louisville and Nashville Railroad was a key cog in the Union logistics effort in the Western Theater during the war.  L&N President James Guthrie realized this immediately and made many demands of […]

  • An Interview With The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook Collaborators J.D. Petruzzi and Steven Stanley

    A chat with Civil War author J. David Petruzzi and cartographer Steven Stanley about their new book project with Savas Beatie Q: I’m familiar with Savas Beatie’s The New Civil War Handbook and The New American Revolution Handbook, but can you explain the books and their format for those of our readers who are not? […]

  • February 2011 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! February 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath edited by Andrew L. Slap presents a look at Reconstruction in an area with a unique set of problems. The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta by Gary Ecelbarger is a description of […]

  • And the Far Left Wonders Why Everyone Hates Them

    I have been seriously catching up on my Civil War blog reading lately after spending the better part of July-November 2010 getting married.  Imagine my anger when I read the following comments about TOCWOC in the first comment following Andy Hall’s post taking Jim Durney to task for his Black Confederates blog entry awhile back.  […]