Month: February 2012
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Camp Life and Target Practice in 1862
Bill Adams sends along a clipping from the Northampton Gazette & Courier, dated February 11, 1862, which gives a very good look a camp life in the Union army just prior to McClellan’s Peninsular campaign. It should also help dispel one of the most persistent CW myths—that many soldiers went into battle without ever even […]
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Civil War Book Review: Where The South Lost The War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862
Editor’s Note: I realized yesterday while putting together a post on Fort Donelson Civil War books that I never actually posted this review and summary of a key book in the Fort Donelson literature here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. This review was originally written in early 2005, before I had started blogging. […]
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Help Save the Darbytown Road Battlefields Around Richmond
Eric Wittenberg posted a long and intriguing article about the Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads on October 7, 1864. Dr. Charles Bowery, who literally grew up on the battlefield, wrote the article. He is trying to raise awareness that this battlefield, as well as the land on which the two other Darbytown Road […]
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William Holden, Second Iowa
I have some letters from William Holden, a soldier with the Second Iowa. An ardent abolitionist who lived in Ottumwa, the 22-year-old Holden signed up at the beginning of the conflict and stayed on until the end, re-enlisting in December, 1863. Serving in the Western armies, he fought in almost all the major battles of […]
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Exploring Fort Donelson in Civil War Books and Games
Editor’s Note: I originally meant for this post to go out yesterday, the 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Fort Donelson, but spending time with two very small boys and a busy work schedule caused me to post a day late. I beg forgiveness and hope you still find this post useful. Confederate Surrender […]
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The Confederacy on…Mars?
Yup. John Carter, former Confederate officer, is somehow transported to Barsoom, which we know as Mars. There his muscles, formed in the heavier gravity of Jasoom (Earth) give him an overwhelming advantage given the primitive sword-and-shield technology of the other world. As told by Edgar Rice Burroughs via Disney.