Category: Best of TOCWOC – 2006
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Who’s Arguing?
In a recent entry at Civil War Memory, Kevin Levin says…well, I honestly don’t know exactly WHAT he’s trying to say, as you will soon see below. I take exception to some of Kevin’s comments, and my reply to his entry appears as below: Kevin, I wasn’t surprised to see your post this morning. Any […]
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Take Command: Second Manassas AAR: “Boots and Saddles”: Sigel’s I Corps AoV on August 29, 1862
Guys, I promised quite a while ago to clean up and post some of the AARs (After Action Reports) I wrote while playtesting TC2M. I’ll be posting these in the MMG Forums, in the Paradox Forums, and on my American Civil War Gaming & Reading Blog. The AAR below covers Sigel’s I Corps, Army of […]
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Bruce Levine – Confederate Emancipation
For the past two years I’ve been more interested in the historiography of the Civil War than the actual events itself. The historiography through memory writing school is relatively new to the Civil War history scene, led by historians like David Blight, but it’s making steady progress. While most works (including this site) still focus […]
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Review: Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Books On The Vicksburg Campaign Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. Timothy B. Smith. New York, NY: Savas Beatie LLC (2004). 502 pp. 41 maps. This is a review and summary of Timothy B. Smith’s Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. Dr. Smith sets out to write the first detailed history of the most important […]
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TC2M: Chantilly Battlefield Comparison
Over at the Mad Minute Games forums, there have been several screenshots of Take Command: Second Manassas (TC2M for short) compared to pictures of the modern battlefield of Second Manassas. I responded to a request to show a similar comparison of the Chantilly Battlefield (not available in the beta release). The details of the comparison […]
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Review In Brief: Mother, May You Never See The Sights I Have Seen
Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865 by Warren Wilkinson 665 pp., 11 maps I want to preface this review with the admission that I have read very few unit histories to this point. While I feel very comfortable reviewing […]
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Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Being a history major and frequenting various history related websites, one cannot help but be inundated by narrative based pop histories, usually to my disdain. In fact, this book, controversial in the blogosphere if not on Amazon, only arrived at my house because I proved too lazy to preempt the Book Club from sending it […]