TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: December 2013

  • The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 3

    Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin.  I had totally […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker’s History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi

    Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker’s History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi by Richard Lowe Product Details Hardcover: 135 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (September 9, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807152501 ISBN-13: 978-0807152508   Books on the Trans Mississippi Theater do not fill store bookshelves, so anyone interested in this […]

  • Varney v. Burnside, a brief for the defense

    As discussed earlier this month, I recently read General Grant and the Rewriting of History by Frank Varney.  Though it is marketed as a book about the impact of Ulysses Grant’s memoirs on the writing of history,  I found that it is mostly about reframing the Civil War career of General William Rosecrans. In doing […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Barksdale’s Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

    BARKSDALE’S CHARGE: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 by Phillip Thomas Tucker Product Details Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Casemate (July 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1612001793 ISBN-13: 978-1612001791 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches Note: Also available on Kindle for $10.99.   Close to victory? Gettysburg while not […]

  • Savas Beatie Author Interview: Donald A. Hopkins on Robert E. Lee

    Editor’s Note: This Savas Beatie author interview originally appeared at the Savas Beatie web site and appears at TOCWOC with written permission.  This interview may not be reproduced without the express written content of Savas Beatie.  For more details on this and other fine Savas Beatie books, please email the publisher at  sales@savasbeatie.com. An Interview with Robert E. Lee in War and […]

  • Chickasaw Bayou (5)

    December 26 Early on the 26th the transports headed for the Yazoo under guard of the gunboats. The convoy ran unopposed to the vicinity of Johnson’s Plantation where they tied up to disembark. BG George Morgan’s division led the expedition ashore at the eastern limit of the Johnson property. After a brief bombardment by the […]

  • The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 2

    Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin.  I had totally […]