TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn By Nathaniel Philbrick Product Details Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Viking Adult; 1St Edition (May 4, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0670021725 ISBN-13: 978-0670021727 Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 1.9 inches 150 years after George Armstrong Custer’s first appearance in the American Civil […]

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I’ve been reading a series of book on tactics from both the Napoleonic and Revolutionary wars as a background for my ongoing study of Civil War tactics. Part of this is to try to determine, as British military pundit Paddy Griffith had it, if the American Civil War was another Napoleonic war. How much, if […]

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Note: I’m stepping outside of the bounds of my typical Civil War book reviews for a look at the Revolutionary War battle of Guilford Courthouse, Lord Cornwallis’ pyrrhic victory over Nathanael Greene’s Continentals and militia near modern day Greensboro, North Carolina.  Rest assured this departure from the Civil War will not become a trend, but […]

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