TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: February 2012

  • Civil War Book Review: Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory

    Jordan, Brian M. Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862 (Savas Beatie, January 2012). 408 pages, illustrations, 12 maps, bibliography, footnotes, index. ISBN: 978-1-61121-088-0 $32.95 (Hardcover). Was the Union surrender at Harpers Ferry or the Battle of South Mountain the more important event in the 1862 Maryland Campaign?  […]

  • Preservation Opportunities for the Darbytown Road Battles, October 1864

    For those of you unfamiliar with this story, Charles Bowery is pushing to form an organization to save the greatly endangered Darbytown Road battlefields east of Richmond and south of Richmond International Airport.  Charles grew up on the battlefield on his grandfather’s farm.  Many areas of the battlefield are currently up for sale, as you […]

  • Did Lee Tell Ewell To Halt on July 1 at Gettysburg?

    I’ve been spending a lot of time lately looking through old issues of the National Tribune, THE Union veterans’ paper after the Civil War.  My main goal is to find articles pertaining to the Siege of Petersburg, but I’ve found a lot of other fascinating things, and I’ve only reached early 1882.  The paper was […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Product Details Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition (September 27, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0805093079 ISBN-13: 978-0805093070 Much of what is written and said on this book depends on the author’s view of Bill O’Reilly and […]

  • Civil War Book Preview: Ed Bearss’ The Petersburg Campaign, Vol. 1: The Eastern Front Battles, June – August 1864

    Savas Beatie, the publisher of the upcoming Ed Bearss Civil War book The Petersburg Campaign, Vol. 1: The Eastern Front Battles, June – August 1864, has made available to me the first part of an interview with legendary Civil War historian Ed Bearss as well as a short excerpt from the book itself. First, let […]

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: February 2012, Part 2

    Civil War Book Acquisitions: February 2012: Part 2 Title: Lincoln’s Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865 Author: Longacre, Edward G. Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4229-6 Price: $26.95 (paperback) TOCWOC’s Take: The University of Oklahoma Press is releasing paperback versions of both of Ed Longacre’s books […]

  • A Patriotic Tipple

    Since we are honoring presidents today we might take a moment of two to do it with spirit(s). The two whose birthdays fall near today—George Washington and Abe Lincoln—both liked to imbibe a wee dram now and again. Washington even made it and was by some accounts at one time the largest distiller in the […]