Category: Civil War Books
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The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 13
Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. I had totally […]
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The Top 5 Most Overlooked Civil War Sites in New York City: Introduction
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 […]
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Civil War Book Review: Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 (Emerging Civil War) by Daniel Davis and Phillip Greenwalt Product Details Series: Emerging Civil War Paperback: 168 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (January 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 1611211654 ISBN-13: 978-1611211658 The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 is a popular subject, with many histories from which to choose. This […]
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The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 12
Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. I had totally […]
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Ed Bearss’ Petersburg Campaign Volume 2 Coming Soon…
Savas Beatie has a trailer up at Youtube covering the second volume of Ed Bearss’ Petersburg Campaign, this time featuring battles from September 1864 to April 1865: The publisher also has an interview with the legendary battlefield guide up at their web site. Keep an eye on The Siege of Petersburg Online’s bibliography page for […]
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The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 11
Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. I had totally […]
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Civil War Book Review: Allegany to Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers
Dunham, Valgene. Allegany to Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers (Syracuse University Press, 2013). 264 pages, maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8156-1011-3 $29.95 (Cloth). Note: Also available in Kindle format. Many soldiers answered the call to war in the heady days of 1861 and […]