TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Campaigns & Battles

In The Review Queue: Death in the Trenches, Border War, and Civil War Guerrillas

The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog. These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. I received three new Civil War books to review […]

June 27, 2009
How Do You Pronounce These Civil War Names and Places?

While listening to Volume 1 of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War, A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville as an audiobook on my iPod during the drive to and from work, I’ve noticed a LOT of names and places being butchered by the narrator. And then I got to thinking. How do I *know* […]

June 5, 2009
In the Review Queue: Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 by Donald S. Frazier

The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog. These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of […]

May 19, 2009
Review: Vicksburg, 1863 by Winston Groom

Vicksburg, 1863 by Winston Groom Product Details Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 7, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307264254 ISBN-13: 978-0307264251 Shelby Foote never claimed to be a historian and always referred to himself as a “story teller”, Winston Groom falls into this category. This is not a serious history with many footnotes on each […]

May 13, 2009
Review: Petersburg 1864-65: The longest siege

For more information on the Siege of Petersburg, go to Beyond the Crater: The Siege of Petersburg Online. Field, Ron. Petersburg 1864-65: The longest siege Osprey Publishing (May 19, 2009). 96 pages, maps, illustrations, index. ISBN: 978-1846033551 $19.95 (Paperback). How can a campaign of almost ten months be covered in only 96 pages? The answer […]

April 27, 2009
In the Review Queue: Thunder From a Clear Sky: Stovepipe Johnson’s Confederate Raid on Newbergh, Indiana

The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog. These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. Author Ray Mulesky was kind enough to send along […]

April 26, 2009
Blowin’ In The Wind at Petersburg

As a followup to my previous post on Bob Dylan, the Times blog has posted some thoughts on what he might have been reading. They put in a quote from a Times correspondent comparing Northern and Southern forces in mid-1864 (not 1863 as stated). The rolls of company after company exhibit not a single name […]

April 8, 2009