I have started to receive quite a few requests to review Civil War fiction here at the ol’ Civil War blog. The requests intrigue me and I have often thought about expanding the scope of my posts here at TOCWOC to include fiction as well as non-fiction. However, my standard response from day one has […]
Civil War Fiction: Worth Reading?
July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Categories: Civil War Book Publishers · Civil War Book Reviews · Civil War Books
Tags: · across five aprils, ambrose bierce, civil war fiction, rifles for watie, the complete short stories of ambrose bierce, the killer angels, the red badge of courage
Odds & Ends: April 26, 2008
April 26th, 2008 · No Comments
If you’re a regular reader, you’re well aware of my Odds & Ends column. For anyone new stumbling on this post after a search, let me briefly explain. Odds & Ends is a semi-regular series which attempts to pull together some of the recent interesting happenings and news about the Civil War. You might see […]
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends
Tags: · ambrose bierce, genealogy, george b. mcclellan, gettysburg cyclorama, glory, gone with the wind, monocacy, Song of the South, stephen crane, the devil's dictionary, the red badge of courage
Book Purchases: August 2006
September 18th, 2006 · No Comments
I managed to pick up an interesting though smaller list of books last month. These range from fiction, to biography and semi-biography, to a tour guide, and finally to my typical battle and campaign studies. I am particularly excited to finally get my hands on Forrest at Brice’s Crossroads for a good price. I’ve already […]
Categories: Civil War Books
Tags: · chickamauga campaign, clint johnson, controversies & commanders, david detzer, donnybrook, edwin c. bearss, eric j. wittenberg, ethan s. rafuse, forrest at brice's crossroads and in north mississippi, general james longstreet, gettysburg's forgotten cavalry actions, gunfire around the gulf, jack coombe, jeffry d. wert, mcclellan's war, patrick abbazia, stephen a. townsend, stephen crane, stephen w. sears, the red badge of courage, the yankee invasion of texas, touring the carolina's civil war sites
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