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Category: Best of TOCWOC – 2008

  • Traditional Views of the Civil War

    Traditional Views of the American Civil War by James Durney We do not know what happened during the Civil War. The participants were homesick, tired, hungry, frightened and/or bored much of the time. People usually have little knowledge of events outside of their immediate area and what they thought true was often wrong. After action […]

  • Review in Brief: Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess

    Earl J. Hess. Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (April 6, 2005). 464 pp., 23 maps, appendices, notes, index. ISBN: 0-8078-2931-5 $45.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). Earl Hess sets out to chronicle the use of fortifications during the Eastern Campaigns of the […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: June 6, 2008

    Note: Welcome to all StumbleUpon users.  If you enjoy the Civil War and the blog entry below, I encourage you to check out my top posts over in the right sidebar as well as surf through my Categories page to find subjects of interest to you.  I also encourage you to subscribe to my Feedburner […]

  • Review: Three Days in the Shenandoah by Gary Ecelbarger

    Gary Ecelbarger. Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester (Campaigns and Commanders). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press (April 30, 2008). 273 pp., order, of battle, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0806138862 $29.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). Were Union troops even involved in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign? From reading many sources focusing […]

  • Review: The London Confederates

    The London Confederates: The Officials, Clergy, Businessmen and Journalists Who Backed the American South During the Civil War John D. Bennett ISBN 978-0-7864-3056-7 photos, gazetteer, chronology, appendices, notes, bibliography, index 214pp. hardcover (7 x 10) 2008 $55 McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, NC Former reference librarian John D. Bennett, who lives in Leicester, England, has […]

  • Review: Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3 by Russel H. Beatie

    Russel H. Beatie. Army of the Potomac, Volume 3: McClellan’s First Campaign March 1862-May 1862. New York: Savas Beatie LLC; First Edition (2007). 723 pp., 36 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 1-932714-25-1 $45.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). Note: I’m getting around to viewing this one a little late. I thought I’d give readers some links to other reviews […]

  • Review: Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    Christian B. Keller. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press; First Edition (May 15, 2007). 244 pp., 4 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0823226504 $65.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). How serious a blow was the Battle of Chancellorsville to the collective German-American psyche? Christian B. Keller attempts to answer precisely […]