Category: Best of TOCWOC – 2006
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for Cause and for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, Part 1
for Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin by Eric A. Jacobson and Richard A. Rupp Softback $24.95 plus shipping 519 pages! ISBN 0-9717444-6-7 Hardback $44.95 plus shipping 519 pages! ISBN 0-9717444-4-0 I first heard about this promising new book at the Dispatch Depot Civil […]
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The Battles for Jerusalem Plank Road, June 21-24, 1864
I’ve decided to do a short blog entry on each of Grant’s Nine Offensives during the Petersburg Campaign, covering the basics and giving interested readers links to books and web sites for further study. I started last week with my first post on the Battle of Petersburg. After the failed assaults of June 18, 1864, […]
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Review In Brief: The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Unit Histories and Other Non-Campaign Studies of the War in the East The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863. Eric J. Wittenberg. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, Inc. (September 2003). 432 pp. 15 maps. The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863 […]
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Couldn’t Hit an Elephant
Today, May 9, is the 142nd anniversary of the death of Major General John Sedgwick at Spotsylvania. Sedgwick was just one of hundreds killed by Confederate sharpshooters that day, who were able to give full rein to their destructiveness in the more open terrain around Spotsylvania. I won’t go into the details of the incident, […]
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Review In Brief: Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Books on the Civil War and Film My Film History Books Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory. Neil Longley York. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (May 2001). 176 pp. 1 map, many illustrations. I’ve been a film history buff almost as long as I’ve been […]
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Sources Used in the Making of Take Command: Second Manassas
Since Take Command: Second Manassas is now out, I thought I’d pass along the sources the Mad Minute Games team used in making the game. As a playtester for two companies (MMG and HPS), it never ceases to amaze me how they always strive to make things as accurate as humanly possible given the time […]
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Ft. Stevens & More
fred ray fort stevens washington shock troops of the confederacy