TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Guest Blogging

  • My First Civil War Reenactment: Marion Davis

    Editor’s Note: I am always a fan of bringing in guest posters interested in the Civil War.  I find these guest posters often look at the war through a lens far different than mine.  With that said, TOCWOC guest poster and Civil War enthusiast Marion Davis wrote a self-published Civil War era novel as a […]

  • 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 […]

  • My first visit to the new Gettysburg Visitors Center

    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.

  • An Excellent Primer?: Writing the Civil War

    While browsing through the Civil War book offerings on eBay last week, I ran across (and eventually purchased) Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand edited by James McPherson and William J. Cooper, Jr. The inside cover flap has the following: In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging discussion of […]

  • Welcome James and Fred!

    I’d like to welcome two new bloggers to the TOCWOC team. Many of you have read Fred Ray’s numerous excellent posts on Civil War sharpshooters on my old American Civil War Gaming & Reading blog. Fred is the author of Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia. His […]

  • Osprey Publishing

    Those of us in the miniature wargaming hobby are very well aware of the British book publisher, Osprey. Based in Oxford, the company was originally created as a subsidiary of a tea company that had packaged trading cards of military aircraft with their tea products. The cards’ artist proposed a series of books on warplanes, […]

  • A forgotten part of the Gettysburg Campaign

    There are more than 1,000 books that have been published over the past century and a half concerning the Battle of Gettysburg, and thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, as well as other written prose on the fighting. Only a handful focus on the retreat from Gettysburg (with Eric and J.D.’s new book in 2008 […]