TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Civil War Blogging

  • Libel Primer

    One of the nice things about writing about the Late Unpleasantness is that most of the primary source material is long out of copyright and all of the participants are dead, which means you can’t libel them. Say what you will about US Grant, Phil Sheridan, George Pickett or anyone else, neither they or their […]

  • The Winner of the March 2009 TOCWOC Book Giveaway Is…

    Troy Mastern of Lebanon, Ohio! Troy’s copy of The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat by Earl J. Hess will be in the mail by the time you are all reading this.  Thanks to everyone who entered the contest.  TOCWOC’s bloggers thank each and every reader out there.  Without you, this blog would be worthless.  […]

  • TOCWOC Reader Tools: Lijit Search “Wijit”

    Note: This post is one of a series on TOCWOC Reader Tools,  tools which allow you the reader to better navigate through what is a rapidly growing blog to find/do exactly what you came here for. Lijit is a very useful search tool for readers and bloggers which I recently added to TOCWOC.  It’s located […]

  • The Trent Crisis of 1861-2 and Author Phil Myers

    I recently came across a very interesting Civil War forum topic on the Trent Affair and possible British military intervention  in the Civil War.  One of the main forum users, 67th Tigers, takes the position that British civilians overwhelmingly wanted war and goes on to present detailed British war plans both in the thread and […]

  • The Civil War From a British Perspective

    I frequently announce new Civil War blogs here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog and add them to the blogroll.  A lot of the Civil War blogs out there try to occupy their own little niche on within our decidely niche topic.  It is with great interest, then, that I learned of a new […]

  • Review: Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History

    Maier, Larry B. and Stahl, Joseph W. Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History.  McFarland (August 15, 2008). 222 pages, many illustrations, index. ISBN: 978-0786433100 $55.00 (Hardcover). Did Civil War soldiers have dog tags?  Surprisingly, yes they did, and they are referred to today as “identification […]

  • TOCWOC Poll Results: What Type of Blog Entry Do You Enjoy Reading?

    As many of you have already noticed, I removed the recent poll asking what type of blog entries you enjoy from the left sidebar and replaced it with a new Age Poll.  It’s time now to look at the results of the blog entry poll.  First, let’s take a look at the final results: [poll […]