TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: In The Review Queue

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: December 2011

    Editor’s Note: For those who do not know, my wife had our second son, Brody, on December 30, 2011. I’ve been away from the blog in an active role for far longer than I would have liked. In my absence, Jim and Fred have done a fine job. However, my batteries are recharged and I’d […]

  • The Bristoe Campaign for Only $3.03 on Kindle!

    In preparation for an upcoming post on Civil War book acquisitions, I noticed another incredibly cheap but interesting book for Amazon Kindle.  Adrian Tighe’s book on the post-Gettysburg Bristoe Campaign in the fall of 1863 is the only modern study of this completely forgotten subject, and it’s available for only $3.03 on Amazon Kindle!  Keep […]

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: November 2011

    Editor’s Note: For those who do not know, my wife had our second son, Brody, on December 30, 2011.  I’ve been away from the blog in an active role for far longer than I would have liked.  In my absence, Jim and Fred have done a fine job.  However, my batteries are recharged and I’d […]

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: October 2011

    Editor’s Note: For those who do not know, my wife had our second son, Brody, on December 30, 2011.  I’ve been away from the blog in an active role for far longer than I would have liked.  In my absence, Jim and Fred have done a fine job.  However, my batteries are recharged and I’d […]

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: September 2011

    Editor’s Note: For those who do not know, my wife had our second son, Brody, on December 30, 2011.  I’ve been away from the blog in an active role for far longer than I would have liked.  In my absence, Jim and Fred have done a fine job.  However, my batteries are recharged and I’d […]

  • In the Review Queue: Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd

    Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd Editors/Authors: Mary Jordan and Joyce Hatch BTC’s Take: An interesting little book filled with illustrations and photos, Dear Friend Amelia features the letters of a homesick soldier in the 109th New York who was involved in some of the worst of the fighting in […]

  • The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume 1: South Mountain Is Out!

    Tom Clemens announced Thursday on his Maryland Campaign blog that the first volume of his lifelong labor of love, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume 1: South Mountain, is available now at Antietam National Battlefield and should be available soon at Amazon.com.  Everyone I’ve spoken with has had nothing but ebullient praise for Clemens’ […]