TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: March 2011

  • Civil War Book Review: Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign

    Shea, William L. Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. The University of North Carolina Press (November 15, 2009). 368 pages, 41 illustrations, 17 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3315-5 $35.00 (Cloth). How was the Confederacy able to find men, material, arms, ammunition, and food to defend Arkansas in the wake of Earl Van […]

  • McFarland Civil War Book of the Week: William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War

    William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War Author: Lawrence M. Denton TOCWOC’s Take: William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent War focuses on Seward’s efforts to prevent the Civil War from occurring during the Secession Winter of 1860-61.  The author believes Seward might have prevented […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861

    Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz Product Details Hardcover: 362 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (November 3, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616667 ISBN-13: 978-0700616664 Given a choice of spending an afternoon reading legal history or in the dentist’s chair, many would have to think which would be worse.  I approached […]

  • The New York Times on Abraham Lincoln’s First Inauguration

    The New York Times March 5, 1861 WASHINGTON, Monday, March 4. The day to which all have looked with so much anxiety and interest has come and passed. ABRAHAM LINCOLN has been inaugurated, and “all’s well.” At daylight the clouds were dark and heavy with rain, threatening to dampen the enthusiasm of the occasion with […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Creating a Confederate Kentucky

    Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne Elizabeth Marshall Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 29, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 080783436X ISBN-13: 978-0807834367 Becoming Confederate E. Merton Coulter said Kentucky “waited until after the war was over to […]

  • The Civil War 150 Years Ago: March 1861

    The Civil War 150 Years Ago March 1861 On the second, the US Congress rejects comprise resolutions from the Peace Convention, ending attempts for a political comprise. The night of the third, President elect Lincoln dines with his new cabinet for the first time.  Earlier, Lincoln toured the Senate and General Scott told Seward that […]

  • March 2011 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! March 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable looks at religion during the war.George C. Rable (Author) Strangling the Confederacy by Kevin Dougherty is not a new book but one that needs […]