TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: August 2011

  • Resources on the Battle of Wilson’s Creek: August 10, 1861

    The Battle of Wilson’s Creek: August 10, 1861 Overview As many of you know, today is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, fought on August 10, 1861.  Nathaniel Lyon’s mostly German Union army was defeated by the combined forces of Sterling Price and Ben McCulloch and Lyon lost his life in the […]

  • Alabama Historical Quarterly Online

    While looking through the notes at the end of A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad: The Vermont Brigade, June 23, 1864 this weekend, I found what appears to be the entire run of Alabama Historical Quarterly online.  I was specifically interested in Colonel Hilary A. Herbert’s “History of the Eighth Alabama Volunteer Regiment, C.S.A.“, […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War

    Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War by Stanley Harrold Product Details Hardcover: 312 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; First Edition edition (October 29, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807834319 ISBN-13: 978-0807834312 Slavery did not present a great problem when the majority of the states held slaves.  As states emancipated slaves […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 7/31/2011

    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 unfamiliar […]

  • August 2011 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! August 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War is a detailed, informative and very enjoyable book. Sister States Enemy States is a series of essays on how the war affected Tennessee and Kentucky. The Doom of […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 7/24/2011

    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 unfamiliar […]