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Civil War Book Review: Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65

January 10th, 2014 · No Comments

Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65. (Osprey Publishing, September 20, 2013). 80 pages, illus., maps, orders of battle, select bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-78096-927-5 $18.95 (Paperback). Osprey’s Combat series takes a look at two opposing forces in a given war by looking at three combat situations in micro-tactical detail.  In this volume […]

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Unsolved History: Pickett’s Charge

August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Watched an episode of Unsolved History the other night on Pickett’s Charge and it was actually pretty good. For those unfamiliar with the series, it takes a historical event with ambiguous circumstances and tries, using scientific techniques, to clarify them. In this case it was the reasons for the failure of the climactic Confederate attack […]

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Odds & Ends: May 17, 2008

May 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Everyone reading this knows TOCWOC is a Civil War blog. Odds & Ends does focus on the Civil War, but it does so by looking at blogs and web sites whose main focus often isn’t the Civil War or even history. This particular Odds & Ends has a bit of a wargaming bent this time […]

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Civil War Talk Radio: March 25, 2005

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments

Air Date: 032505 Subject: Lesley J. Gordon: Why Pickett is Still Charging On Book: General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend Guest: Lesley J. Gordon Summary: Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, crosses boundaries by combining contemporary academic methodology and theory with traditional military topics. Brett’s […]

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