TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: February 2014

  • Excerpt from Upcoming Hampton Roads Peace Conference Book

    Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from Jim Conroy’s new book Our One Common Country:  Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865.  Jim was kind enough to share a short excerpt, and he sets the scene below. *** On January 29, 1865, Jefferson Davis sent three senior officers of the Confederate government […]

  • Regiments, Battalions, and Batteries, Oh My!

    Unit Pages for Third Offensive at the Siege of Petersburg Those of you who follow The Siege of Petersburg Online know that one of my current semi-near term goals is to work my way through Volumes XL, XLII, and XLVI of the Official Records for Northern units and through The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: […]

  • Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865 EBook 75% Off Until February 17

    I wanted to pass along a little tidbit for any Kindle (Nook, Ipad, tablet du jour) owning Lincoln fans out there.  Library of America, publishers of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings 1859-1865: Library of America #46 is throwing a 75% off Ebook sale at Amazon.com right now.  Click this link to get the ebook version for […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Yankee Dutchmen Under Fire

    Reinhart, Joseph R. Yankee Dutchmen Under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry (The Kent State University Press, October 2013). 272 pages, 15 maps, 9 illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. ISBN: 978-1-60635-176-5 $45.00 (Cloth). Note: Also available in Kindle format. How did German-American soldiers feel about the Civil War?  How did they see […]

  • Short Takes

    It’s Black History Month, so let’s take a look at the African-American volunteers from Connecticut. It shows the two views of black soldiery. One legislator opined that the authorizing legislation was the most disgraceful bill ever introduced into the Connecticut Legislature,” Democratic Rep. William W. Eaton of Hartford said he “would rather let loose the wild […]

  • Chickasaw Bayou (12)

    December 29 – Indian Mound At Indian Mound the Federal commander decided on a different tactic. Ordered to force a crossing, COL Giles Smith, opted away from the blunt force trauma of a massed assault in favor of a more precise approach. The 57th Ohio and the 13th U.S. Infantry were deployed on the sides […]

  • The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 9

    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 […]