TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Let me preface this entry by saying I LOVE my iPod nano. It’s one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. I lift weights, run, hang out, drive my car, and even listen to Civil War Talk Radio on my iPod. I was obviously pleasantly surprised, then, to find podcasts of battlefield tours at Civil […]

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I spent a couple of hours yesterday touring the new Gettysburg National Military Park Visitors Center, highlighted by the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War. Very impressive! For a half dozen photos and my commentary, please visit my Charge! blog entry.

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I spent last weekend driving over a good bit of Warren, Loudoun, Fairfax and Fauquier counties with a tour group from Michigan. We were visiting Mosby sites, from the Oakham Farm, where Mosby’s partisan career started, to Salem (Marshall), where he disbanded the command rather than surrender it to the enemy. We did walking tours […]

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I recently spent some time in Sharpsburg, Maryland, recently for parts of the 145th Anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Antietam, a special event since several of my family fought there. The Antietam Visitors Center bookstore sells my Human Interest Stories from Antietam, and I signed several dozen copies for the store’s inventory. My son and […]

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Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory has a bitter screed about people going to Antietam and enjoying themselves, damn it. It’s a battlefield! People died! Platitudes are being uttered! What do you see when you go to a national battlefield? If the NPS is operating it, you can bet its really clean. And tasteful. In […]

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