TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters:  956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6967-3 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-1698-8 149 photos, appendices, bibliography, index 340pp. softcover (8.5 x 11) 2015 Price: $75.00 TOCWOC’s Take: Myron J. Smith’s name is well-known to […]

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Jefferson Davis’s Flight from Richmond: The Calm Morning, Lee’s Telegrams, the Evacuation, the Train, the Passengers, the Trip, the Arrival in Danville and the Historians’ Frauds by John Stewart TOCWOC’s Take: Despite the somewhat odd ending to the subtitle, this book appears to do what the author says it does, “examin[ing] all relevant source material—much of it newly […]

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The Chickamauga Campaign:A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of the Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22-September 19, 1863 by David A. Powell Savas Beatie Format: Hardcover, 696 pages Price: $37.50 ISBN: 978-1-61121-174-0 eBook: 978-1-61121-175-7 On Sale: November 2014 26 maps, 40 images TOCWOC’s Take: Even with all of the excellent Petersburg Campaign […]

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The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865 (150th Anniversary Edition) by Noah Andre Trudeau Savas Beatie Format: Hardcover, 552 pages Price: $32.95 ISBN: 978-1-61121-212-9 eBook: 978-1-61121-213-6 On Sale: November 2014 6 x 9, 23 maps and 24 images TOCWOC’s Take: Just in time for the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Siege of Petersburg comes this revised […]

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Editor’s Note: I tried to do a series called the “McFarland Book of the Week” awhile ago and I just could not reasonably keep up.  You’ll see these new posts from time to time which update you on the most recent McFarland Civil War books available.  McFarland’s books tend to be on the expensive side, […]

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Confederate Torpedoes: Two Illustrated 19th Century Works with New Appendices and Photographs Editor: Herbert M. Schiller TOCWOC’s Take: Confederate Torpedoes: Two Illustrated 19th Century Works with New Appendices and Photographs is a compilation of two 19th century works on Confederate torpedoes, the first by a Confederate and the second by a Union author: Torpedo Book […]

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Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month Compiler: James B. Jones, Jr. TOCWOC’s Take: Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month strives to take the reader beyond Shiloh, Stones’ River, Fort Pillow, and other famous battles.  This […]

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