TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Anecdotes

  • Human Interest Stories From Antietam: Vignette 1

    Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the first of three to four entries I hope to devote to the […]

  • Rebel Spy Story Just a Good Yarn

    Stuart’s joke lands woman in jail, but she weds a Northern officer When the American Civil War began in 1861, Antonia Ford was a 23-year-old woman living in Fairfax Court House, Virginia, in the home of her father, a prominent local businessman. The Ford family was secessionist, and Antonia’s brother, Charles, enlisted in the Confederate […]