TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

I was reading the Richmond Daily Dispatch the other night looking for something else when I came across this amusing anecdote of Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg. It certainly reinforces his reputation for both eccentricity and asceticism. The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1863. Anecdote of Stonewall. The Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury gives the following […]

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I was browsing the web for Quarterly Ordnance Returns (i.e. the type and number of weapons each unit had at a given time) for the Army of the Potomac. I found a gem at the Fredericksburg National Battlefield site. Historian Eric Mink apparently transcribed the Ordnance returns for the Army of the Potomac for the […]

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I noticed today (hat tip to Chris Dean at the Historical Wargames Usenet group) that HPS Simulations has released Campaign Chancellorsville, the 11th game in their Civil War Battles series of computer wargames. The game covers the Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville Campaigns with other smaller cavalry battles thrown in as well. Here’s an initial screen shot […]

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Air Date: 041808 Subject: Civil War Medicine Book: Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall & Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy Guest: Michael A. Flannery Summary: Professor Michael A. Flannery from the University of Alabama at Birmingham […]

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Air Date: 40105 Subject: Donald C. Pfanz: Battlefield Historian Book: Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life Guest: Donald C. Pfanz Summary: Donald C. Pfanz, author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life, talks about his role as historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Brett’s Summary: Don Pfanz discusses several interesting topics with […]

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