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Category: Beyond the Crater: Petersburg Campaign Notes

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 7/10/2011

    This weekly series looks at the posts which have appeared over the last 7 days at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.  It’s a way to show TOCWOC readers what I’ve been doing over at my other Civil War site. Most of my focus right now, to set the stage for those wholly […]

  • Civil War Book Review: The Soul of a Soldier

    Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater and is being cross-posted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. Miller, Myron M. The Soul of a Soldier: The True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War. Xlibris Corporation (2011). 217 pages, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography. ISBN: […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Online Posts: Week of 7/3/2011

    Many of you have probably noted my extended absence from meaningful posts here at TOCWOC.  While I haven’t been doing as many book reviews as I’d like due to an extra busy schedule at work, I have been busy with The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.  I thought it might be interesting to […]

  • Siege of Petersburg Beyond the Crater Progress Report: 2/19/2010

    Siege of Petersburg: Beyond the Crater Progress Report: February 19, 2011 It’s been quite awhile (almost a year!) since I last covered the goings on at my other Civil War site, The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater.   A LOT has been happening over there, including: Siege of Petersburg Diary and Letter Entries, with […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd

    Editor’s Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater earlier today. Jordan, Mary & Hatch, Joyce. Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd. Six Mile Creek Press (January 2011). 176 pp., 100+ illustrations, notes. ISBN: 978-1-57003-922-5 $34.95 (Cloth). Reading a collection of wartime soldier letters […]

  • The National Tribune: The Postwar Mouthpiece of the GAR is Online!

    Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. While in the process of reading John J. Fox’s excellent new book on the defense of Fort Gregg and Fort Whitworth at Petersburg, I ran across several references to the National Tribune, a monthly and then weekly newspaper published from […]

  • BTC Notes: A Detailed New Way to Look at Siege of Petersburg Materials

    Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Introducing BTC Notes at The Siege of Petersburg Online BTC Notes is a new feature at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater which takes a detailed look at Petersburg Campaign materials such as books, articles, essays, maps, […]