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Category: Beyond the Crater: Petersburg Campaign Notes

  • A Plea for Help: The Official Records and Southern Historical Society Papers at Google Books

    Editor’s Note: This post is crossposted at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. I need to some help from TOCWOC and Beyond the Crater readers, all knowledgeable students of the Civil War.  I post articles from quite a few sources at Beyond the Crater, including Battles and Leaders, the MOLLUS War Papers, Papers of […]

  • Check out Jerusalem Plank Road: A New Book of Petersburg Campaign Poetry by Brendan Hamilton

    I received some information from Brendan Hamilton, a former participant in TOCWOC’s Top 5 Civil War books contest, about his new book of Petersburg Campaign poetry, entitled Jerusalem Plank Road. Since I run a Petersburg Campaign web site, how could I resist telling you about this new book? 🙂 Jerusalem Plank Road is due out […]

  • A Top Notch Source for Unit History Bibliographies

    Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater earlier today. The U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center site is chock full of interesting and useful Civil War materials. Today, I want to highlight the Civil War Unit Bibliographies area of the Resource Guides/Finding Aids section of the site. As many readers of TOCWOC […]

  • Beyond the Crater Petersburg Campaign Progress Report: 3/08/2010

    BTC Petersburg Campaign progress reports are a way to keep readers informed about new changes to my Petersburg Campaign web site, especially new pages to explore which do not show up in the RSS Feed.  Look for these reports about once a month, sometimes more often, sometimes less often. It’s been about a month since […]

  • BTC: How to Find a Specific Page of a Primary Source

    Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online and has been crossposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. Since I first started Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online, I’ve wanted to give researchers and deep readers a way to look (and possibly cite) specific pages of […]

  • New Primary Source: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

    Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater and has been reposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. I’ve added a new Battles and Leaders section under the Resources tab in the top menu of Beyond the Crater. For those of you who don’t know, Battles and Leaders of the Civil […]

  • Beyond the Crater: Petersburg Campaign Progress Report: 2/12/2010

    Editor’s Note: This post has been crossposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.  It originally appeared at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. When I first created Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online I fully envisioned something along the lines of Harry Smeltzer’s Bull Runnings site.  It is a nice blend […]