TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: August 2012

  • August 2012 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! August 2012 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My Reading List Good bad or indifferent, these are the books that sit calling “read me next”. Lincoln’s family has fascinated me for some time.  Jason Emerson did an excellent biography of the only son living to become an adult in Giant in the […]

  • Wilmington Part 7

    Decision Time With a “foothold on the peninsula” secured Terry and Porter began to weigh their options. Curtis’ brigade was pushed south toward Fort fisher. On the way they captured a small steamer filled with provisions, forage and ammunition for the fort. They gained possession of a “small unfinished outwork” at the western end of […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder

    Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin Product Details Hardcover: 200 pages Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky (June 19, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0813136105 ISBN-13: 978-0813136103 Unlike Fort Pillow, what occurred at the Crater is not open to debate.  Whites on both sides murdered members of the United […]

  • Civil War Book Review: The Maps of Antietam by Brad Gottfried

    Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, September 2-20, 1862. (Savas Beatie: June 2012). 360 pages, 124 full color, full page maps), bibliography, endnotes, index. ISBN: 978-1-611210-86-6 $39.95 (Hardcover). WOW.  I’ve never started a review with that word, but I’ll write it again.  WOW.  The Maps of Antietam: […]