Month: July 2011

  • The Bull Run Experts…and Bull Run Books

    As any Civil War buff worth their salt knows, today marks the 150th Anniversary of the first Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas for folks of the Southern persuasion).  Normally I’d have some angle on the battle for an anniversary of this magnitude, but life gets in the way sometimes. First, if you’re interested in […]

  • Tufts University Has Digitized the Southern Historical Society Papers

    In an article which mentioned airplanes over the trenches at Petersburg, I also found some exciting news about the Southern Historical Society Papers.  I did not realize they had been placed online at Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library.  Here’s a link to Volume 1.  If all else fails, just do a search for “southern historical […]

  • Sharpshooting in the the War of 1812

    Since we’ve had some comments on the War of 1812 I thought I’d take the opportunity to post an excerpt from my sharpshooter book on the US Rifle Regiment—one of the few first-class US units. Virtually the only book on this important and nearly forgotten unit is John Fredricksen’s Green Coats and Glory: The United […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Map: Battlefield America #112: The Petersburg Campaign

    Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater last week and is reproduced here. Kissel, Tim. Battlefield America #112: The Petersburg Campaign. Trailhead Graphics (2007). 9 maps. ISBN: 978-1883271107 $9.95 (Fold Out Map). Where can you get easy to read, informative, tear resistant and waterproof battlefield maps?  Trailhead Graphics […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 7/10/2011

    This weekly series looks at the posts which have appeared over the last 7 days at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.  It’s a way to show TOCWOC readers what I’ve been doing over at my other Civil War site. Most of my focus right now, to set the stage for those wholly […]

  • Civil War on the Web (and one other)

    John Swansburg takes a marathon Civil War tour from Vicksburg to Gettysburg and wonders if he can become an expert that way. The answer is “no” but it’s still a fun read. Gettysburg on Segways? Over the course of this road trip, my companions and I have found ourselves drawn to certain figures, and we’ve […]

  • Civil War Book Review: The Soul of a Soldier

    Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater and is being cross-posted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. Miller, Myron M. The Soul of a Soldier: The True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War. Xlibris Corporation (2011). 217 pages, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography. ISBN: […]