TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Campaigns & Battles

  • Savas Beatie Planning a Civil War Atlas Series

    Is publisher Savas Beatie planning a Civil War Atlas series based on The Maps of Gettysburg? It certainly looks that way to me after I stumbled on a post on Ted Savas’ blog A Publisher’s Perspective. This is very good news in my opinion. Ted goes on to mention The Maps of Chickamauga as a […]

  • TalkAntietam Yahoo Message Board

    Hat tip to behind AotW’s Brian Downey for pointing out the TalkAntietam Yahoo Message Board in one of his most recent posts. I took a brief look and it looks like there is a lot of good discussion going on there by quite a few knowledgeable people. I’ll be adding this Yahoo Group to the […]

  • Sacred Ground

    I spent last weekend driving over a good bit of Warren, Loudoun, Fairfax and Fauquier counties with a tour group from Michigan. We were visiting Mosby sites, from the Oakham Farm, where Mosby’s partisan career started, to Salem (Marshall), where he disbanded the command rather than surrender it to the enemy. We did walking tours […]

  • The Power of Mother Nature

    Cross-posted from my blog: Several weeks ago, the monument to the 6th New York Cavalry on McPherson’s Ridge at Gettysburg took a direct hit by a bolt of lighting, which nearly blew the monument apart. I took this photo on October 21. Here’s a press release from the National Park Service relating to the damage […]

  • Review In Brief: Mine Run: A Campaign of Lost Opportunities

    Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Review In Brief: Mine Run: A Campaign Of Lost Opportunities Books on Bristoe Station & Mine Run Mine Run: A Campaign of Lost Opportunities October 21, 1863-May 1, 1864. Martin F. Graham & George Skoch. Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, Inc., June 1987. 130 pp. 6 maps, including 1 large […]

  • This Granger and Steedman Thing!

    I have long been somewhat mildly disturbed by the story of the “last moment” arrival of Major General Gordon Granger with Brigadier General James B. Steedman’s First Division of the Reserve Corps of the Army of the Cumberland to the aid of Major General George H. Thomas in the late afternoon of September 20, 1863 […]

  • Scott Mingus’ Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign Now Available

    Award winning Johnny Reb III scenario designer Scott Mingus has a new book coming out entitled Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign. It weighs in at 104 pages and was released by Colecraft Industries on November 21, 2006. I believe this is Scott’s first non-wargaming effort, as he has released scenario books for Antietam […]