TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Shea, William L. Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. The University of North Carolina Press (November 15, 2009). 368 pages, 41 illustrations, 17 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3315-5 $35.00 (Cloth). How was the Confederacy able to find men, material, arms, ammunition, and food to defend Arkansas in the wake of Earl Van […]

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William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War Author: Lawrence M. Denton TOCWOC’s Take: William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent War focuses on Seward’s efforts to prevent the Civil War from occurring during the Secession Winter of 1860-61.  The author believes Seward might have prevented […]

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Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz Product Details Hardcover: 362 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (November 3, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616667 ISBN-13: 978-0700616664 Given a choice of spending an afternoon reading legal history or in the dentist’s chair, many would have to think which would be worse.  I approached […]

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Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne Elizabeth Marshall Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 29, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 080783436X ISBN-13: 978-0807834367 Becoming Confederate E. Merton Coulter said Kentucky “waited until after the war was over to […]

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Those that can’t write, Review! March 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable looks at religion during the war.George C. Rable (Author) Strangling the Confederacy by Kevin Dougherty is not a new book but one that needs […]

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Union Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record (3 vols.) Authors: Travis W. Busey & John W. Busey TOCWOC’s Take: John W. Busey is no stranger to Gettysburg, having previously produced These Honored Dead: The Union Casualties at Gettysburg on his own and the famous (and often updated) Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg with David […]

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Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson by Robert Wynstra Product Details Hardcover: 360 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (November 19, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 193271488X ISBN-13: 978-1932714883 Politics over performance? In the 1800s, the Spoils System is in power.  Politics controls Civil Service with elections causing massive […]

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