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  • Review: The Shiloh Campaign (Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland) edited by Steven E. Woodworth

    The Shiloh Campaign (Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland) Editor Steven E. Woodworth Product Details Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; 1st Edition (April 20, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0809328925 ISBN-13: 978-0809328925 Shiloh, the first big battle of the Civil War, no longer evokes the intense feelings of 1862.  The larger bloodier battles […]

  • Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: May 2009

    I’ve decided to do the Abraham Lincoln Amazon.com Top 10 bestsellers on a bi-monthly basis since the topic doesn’t fit this blog as well as the Top 10 Civil War bestsellers.  Check out the April 2009 Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War bestsellers if you haven’t already, and look for the next Abe Top 10 in […]

  • Top 10 Civil War Blogs Redux

    I recently came up with a list of the Top 10 Civil War Blogs I read on a daily basis, and inadvertently omitted Rene Tyree’s excellent Wig-Wags blog from my list.  With that omission in mind, I reflected on those blogs which narrowly missed the cut and decided to come up with another list of […]

  • Review: Where the Road Begins and A Difference of Opinion

    Where the Road Begins by Nancy Dane Product Details Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises (December 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 159886677X ISBN-13: 978-1598866773 A Difference of Opinion by Nancy Dane Product Details Paperback: 308 pages Publisher: Tate Publishing (February 10, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1606969587 ISBN-13: 978-1606969588 Nancy Dane a native of Arkansas […]

  • Interview with Mac Wyckoff: Author of A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables

    Mac Wyckoff is the author of A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables, a new entry in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set published by Broadfoot Publishing.  He has been a student of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment for over 20 years, wrote a unit history of the 3rd South Carolina (which is […]

  • Top 10 Civil War Blogs

    Update: I’ve added another Top 10 Civil War Blogs list, this time focusing on blogs which just missed the cut for the initial list below. Since I’ve been on a Top 10 kick here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog recently, I thought it might be fun to do a Top 10 Civil War […]

  • Interview with Campaign Chancellorsville Designer Rich Walker

    Rich Walker, designer of the new HPS Civil War computer game Campaign Chancellorsville, was kind enough to answer a few questions about his work as a designer and the new game via email.  Rich has designed multiple Civil War games for HPS Simulations at this point, including Campaign Franklin, Campaign Atlanta, Campaign Shiloh, Campaign Antietam, […]