Month: March 2012
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Major Ramon T. de Aragon, Part 2
Author’s note: This is the second installment of the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. The following is an excerpt from “DE ARAGON – The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon“. Chapter 2 The 13th Tennessee Infantry During the month of May, 1861 the states of Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia followed their neighbors’ […]
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Short Takes
Carter. John Carter. Captain, First Virginia Cavalry. Ten minute trailer with lots of gratuitous Yankee-bustin’. and Looks like John Wilkes Booth won’t be bob-bob-boblin’ along at the Gettysburg store any more. Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors’ center bookstore. […]
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Major Ramon T. de Aragon, Part 1
Author’s Note: I am going to be presenting a series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon, an immigrant from Cuba who settled in West Tennessee and became a regimental surgeon in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. To start, here is an excerpt from the EBook “DE ARAGON -The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon“: Chapter […]
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Boys to Men
Editor’s Note: Please welcome Matt Hollis, one of a number of new amateur Civil War bloggers here at TOCWOC. Matt and the rest of the group are here to bring some fresh new perspectives to TOCWOC, a blog I founded back in late 2006. My goal is to bring you the reader fresh content from […]
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An Engineer talks Fredericksburg
As forewarned I will make my first blog on my pet project; engineers. This little seen letter comes from Captain Ira Spaulding of the 50th New York Engineers. It describes his experiences at Fredericksburg. Head quarters Detachment of the 50th NY Engineers Opposite Fredericksburg, December 20th (?), 1862 My dear Dunklee, I have just received […]
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Short Takes
The Indiana University Press is having a 50% off spring sale coming up March 20-22. All regularly priced items are half off, free shipping on orders of $30 or more in the US. Use the code SAVE50 at checkout. Karen Thatcher of Martinsburg, WV, recently identified a photo of a Civil War relative. “That’s Uncle […]