TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: August 2011

  • Civil War Book Review: A History of the 15th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment: 1861-1865

    Editor’s Note: This book review originally appeared last week at The Siege of Petersburg Online. This is the third and final review for the second release of titles in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the […]

  • Around The Web

    First we had Vance the governor, now it’s Vance the play. For a man who’s been dead 117 years, Zebulon Vance continues to cast a long shadow on Western North Carolina. The Civil War hero and lawmaker’s name is all over the place, on a big monument in downtown Asheville, at his old home place […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 8/14/2011

    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.  I’ve been finishing up posting for Field’s Division, First Corps, Army of Northern […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Second Manassas: Longstreet’s Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge

    Second Manassas: Longstreet’s Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge by Scott C. Patchan Product Details Hardcover: 200 pages Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. (July 31, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1597976873 ISBN-13: 978-1597976879 It is hard to image a trained military man doing a worse job than John Pope at Second Manassas.  His conduct, throughout the […]

  • Civil War Book Review: A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad: The Vermont Brigade, June 23, 1864

    Editor’s Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online. Cross, David F. A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad: The Vermont Brigade, June 23, 1864 (White Mane Books, 2003). 267 pages, photos, maps, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 1-57249-332-1 $29.95 (Hardcover). On June 23, 1864, the Vermont Brigade of the Army of the Potomac […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 8/7/2011

    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. 3rd Arkansas Infantry 3rd AR: Arkansas and the Civil War 3rd AR: Confederate […]

  • Civil War Book Review: The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta

    Ecelbarger, Gary. The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta (St. Martin’s Press, 2010). 320 pages, 17 b&w photos, 13 maps, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 0-312-56399-X $26.99 (Hardcover). Was the July 22, 1864 Battle of Atlanta THE decisive moment of the Atlanta Campaign, and by extension, the battle that secured Lincoln’s reelection in 1864 and won […]