TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Campaigns & Battles

  • Great Antietam Sites on the Anniversary of the Battle

    Editor’s Note: I orginally wrote this article on the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam.  I’ve repurposed the content today for the 149th anniversary.  If you know of other good Antietam resources on the web, be sure to leave a comment.  I particularly welcome comments from Antietam bloggers I’ve missed below.  I know there […]

  • GIS at Civil War Battles

    The New York Times has an interesting article on the use of GIS (Geographical Information Service) in analyzing history, including Civil War battles like Gettysburg. Personally I have always felt that the 2-D maps we see in books are inadequate for conveying the flow of the battle. Things that look obvious on a flat surface […]

  • Civil War on the Web

    A day or two late, but here’s something about Tarheels at Manassas. About 300 Forsyth County men gathered 150 years ago today to fight in the Battle of Bull Run, when Confederate forces defeated Union troops in the first major engagement of the Civil War. But most of those local soldiers didn’t see much action, […]

  • The Bull Run Experts…and Bull Run Books

    As any Civil War buff worth their salt knows, today marks the 150th Anniversary of the first Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas for folks of the Southern persuasion).  Normally I’d have some angle on the battle for an anniversary of this magnitude, but life gets in the way sometimes. First, if you’re interested in […]

  • The Battle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg: July 3, 1863

    The Battle for The Bliss Farm: July 3, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg by James W. Durney Gettysburg is the most studied battle in American History, Noah Andre Trudeau in “Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage” apologized for adding to the weight of books on the battle and called writing about Gettysburg a cottage industry.  […]

  • Book Review: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn By Nathaniel Philbrick Product Details Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Viking Adult; 1St Edition (May 4, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0670021725 ISBN-13: 978-0670021727 Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 1.9 inches 150 years after George Armstrong Custer’s first appearance in the American Civil […]

  • Army of the Potomac Morale at the Siege of Petersburg

    Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater on Monday, January 17, 2011.  Bryce Suderow is an author, researcher, and Siege of Petersburg specialist. “The Troops Did Not Meet the Attack with Vigor and Courage and Determination”: Union Army Morale at the Siege of Petersburg by Bryce Suderow […]