TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Best of TOCWOC – 2008

  • Review: The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat

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  • Review: Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign

    Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign by Lance Herdegen Product Details Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (October 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714480 ISBN-13: 978-1932714487 The Iron Brigade was one of the premier combat units of the Army of the Potomac.  Comprised of western regiments their distinctive headgear made them […]

  • Rifles and Ranges

    Drew Wagenhoffer has a short review up of Earl Hess’s The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth. Although he calls it “the best single volume treatment of the subject so far,” he does raise some significant questions, including one I hadn’t thought of (showing, again, the value of distributed intelligence). There is […]

  • Review: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

    Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James McPherson Product Details Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (October 7, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1594201919 ISBN-13: 978-1594201912 Lincoln is always right, the generals always wrong. “James M. McPherson is, without any second thoughts, the premier author of the civil war, the […]

  • Are Slavery and Emancipation the ONLY Things Worth Studying from the American Civil War?

    There have been quite a few mentions of the Gettysburg Visitor Center over the past few weeks in the Civil War blogosphere, and some of this has spilled over into the question of what type of interpretation should be seen at our Civil War battlefield visitor centers. John Hennessy, National Park Service Chief Historian at […]

  • The Lieber Code

    American Scholar takes a look at the Lieber Code, formalized in 1863 by the US Army as General Orders No. 100. This was one of the first formal codes concerning the conduct of war, and is the basis of the modern ones such as the Hague and Geneva conventions. The author, Francis Lieber (1798–1872), was […]

  • Black Confederates

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