TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

My intense interest in the Siege of Petersburg has spawned a tangential interest in unit histories, with an emphasis on regimental histories. As I go about compiling my Siege of Petersburg Orders of Battle, I have already found the few unit histories I have in my possession (mostly H.E. Howard books on Virginia units) to […]

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Books on the Appomattox Campaign The Battles of Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8-9, 1865, 2nd Edition by Chris M. Calkins 300 pp., 19 maps, numerous illustrations A few days ago, I reviewed Chris Calkins’ self-published book/pamphlet titled Thirty-Six Hours Before Appomattox. It covered April 6-7, 1865, the two days prior to the […]

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NOTE: Let me start this post off by explaining what an After Action Report (AAR) is to those of you who aren’t in the know. An AAR is simply a retelling of what happened in a given battle (or in wargaming terms the last scenario you played). I hope to make AARs a regular feature […]

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The genesis of this post occurred several weeks ago. I wanted to make sure I took a thorough look at this subject before creating a blog entry concerning it. As some of you who regularly read this blog may know, I am particularly interested in Orders of Battle (OOBs) that catalog unit strengths down to […]

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Books On Civil War Strategy Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862. Joseph L. Harsh. Kent State University Press (January, 1998). 296 pp. 7 maps. This is a review and summary of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh. […]

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Chapter Five of Joseph Harsh’s Confederate Tide Rising focuses on the strategic chess match between Robert E. Lee and John Pope from August 9 to August 26, 1862. In this chapter, Harsh repeatedly maintains that Lee never intended Jackson to bring on a major engagement after cutting Pope’s supply line at Bristoe Station. Instead, Harsh […]

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The following is a review and summary of David Evans

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