Category: Civil War Books – New

  • The Top 5 Most Overlooked Civil War Sites in New York City #5: Battery Weed

    Editor’s Note: Bill Morgan, the author of The Civil War Lover’s Guide to New York City (published by Savas Beatie), was kind enough to offer up his list of the top 5 most overlooked Civil War sites in the Big Apple as a series of guest posts here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.  Bill’s introduction will […]

  • Civil War Book Preview: The Petersburg Campaign Volume II: The Western Front Battles

    Bearss, Edwin C., Suderow, Bryce & Wyrick, William. The Petersburg Campaign Volume 2: The Western Front Battles September 1864-April 1865. Savas Beatie LLC (March 2014). 600 pp., 38 illustrations, 25 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-61121-104-7 $34.95 (Cloth). The Petersburg Campaign Volume 2: The Western Front Battles September 1864-April 1865 by Ed Bearss and edited by Bryce Suderow, is […]

  • The Top 5 Most Overlooked Civil War Sites in New York City #4: St. John’s Episcopal Church

    Editor’s Note: Bill Morgan, the author of The Civil War Lover’s Guide to New York City (published by Savas Beatie), was kind enough to offer up his list of the top 5 most overlooked Civil War sites in the Big Apple as a series of guest posts here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.  Bill’s introduction will […]

  • April 2014 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! April 2014 James W. Durney *********************************************************** Hello again, this is the first “Those” in almost a year. A number of factors, reasons and events caused this to happen, none of which is important to you. The immediate goal is to publish every two months while working toward being a monthly […]

  • The Top 5 Most Overlooked Civil War Sites in New York City #3: Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial

    Editor’s Note: Bill Morgan, the author of The Civil War Lover’s Guide to New York City (published by Savas Beatie), was kind enough to offer up his list of the top 5 most overlooked Civil War sites in the Big Apple as a series of guest posts here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.  Bill’s introduction will […]

  • Civil War Book Preview: Twenty-Five Hours to Tragedy: The Battle of Spring Hill by Jamie Gillum

    Gillum, Jamie. Twenty-five Hours to Tragedy: The Battle of Spring Hill and Operations on November 29, 1864: Precursor to the Battle of Franklin. (Jamie Gillum (self published): 2014). 504 pages, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-4701-0681-2 $37.95 (Paperback). Way back when I first started blogging on the Civil War, I was very interested in The Battle […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Learning from the Wounded

    Devine, Shauna. Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science. (The University of North Carolina Press: 2014). 384 pages, 3 tables, 26 halftones, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1155-6 $39.95 (Cloth). Note: Also available in Kindle format. Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American […]