TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: June 2006

  • American Civil War Magazine & Journal Index Updated

    The American Civil War Magazine & Journal Index has been updated again today. I added Volume 52, Number 1 of Civil War History, and I also added Volume 8, Number 5 of North & South. As always, volunteers are needed for this project. See this page for details.

  • Colonel Harry Maury, CSA

    Since reading Eric Wittenberg’s account of Grumble Jones, part of his project to rescue forgotten cavalrymen from oblivion, I decided to do the same for an even more obscure horse soldier, Colonel Harry Maury, CSA, who ended the war as commander of Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry. Henry Maury was one of those outsized, swashbucking, insanely brave […]

  • Today in the Petersburg Campaign: June 10, 1864

    June 10, 1864 Skirmish at Brownsburg, VA, and below as Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, CSA, attempts to intercept Maj. Gen. David Hunter’s, USA, combined Union cavalry force on their way toward Lexington and Lynchburg. Skirmish at Middlebrook, VA, The Lynchburg, VA Campaign. Skirmish at Old Church, VA, part of the Campaign from the Rapidan […]

  • Harpers Ferry Arsenal Updated

    The Harpers Ferry Arsenal, my fan site for Mad Minute Games’ Take Command series of Civil War computer games, has been updated today, and it’s an important update. Modder Pakfront is back with a beta version of a scenario editor for Take Command 2nd Manassas. Although MMG makes it easy on modders and even has […]

  • Blogger Kevin Levin to Appear on Civil War Talk Radio

    Blogger Kevin Levin over at Civil War Memory is set to appear on Civil War Talk Radio today to talk about his work on the Crater, as well as race and memory during and after the war.  Thanks to both Kevin and Andy MacIsaac for pointing this out.  For those of you who don’t know, […]

  • Today in the Petersburg Campaign: June 9, 1864

    June 9, 1864 Engagement at Petersburg, VA, as Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, CSA, throws back Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s, USA, feeble attempt to capture Petersburg, VA. Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official […]

  • Touch the Elbow: A New Civil War Blog

    I learned of a new blog tonight courtesy of the Civil War Top 100 site. Entitled Touch the Elbow – Blogging all things 18th – a Massachusetts Civil War regiment, the new blog covers the 18th and the Civil War in general. Stephen McManus, Donald Thompson and Thomas Churchill are the webmasters of the 18th […]