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Category: Civil War Odds & Ends

  • Civil War Odds and Ends: March 24, 2010

    I have a couple of interesting pieces of news to share with TOCWOC’s readers: Eric Wittenberg reports that his new book on The Battle of Brandy Station is out and ready to purchase. Osprey Publishing announced that five of its military history books are now available for the first time as ‘freemium’ apps via the […]

  • Short Takes

    Will Ronald Reagan replace US Grant on the fifty dollar bill? A US Representative right here in NC, Patrick McHenry, thinks so: “Every generation needs its own heroes,” McHenry said in a written statement. “One decade into the 21st century, it’s time to honor the last great president of the 20th and give President Reagan […]

  • Combat Trash Talkin’

    I found this amusing, from Afghanistan, about the verbal war between the Afghan Army and the Taliban. The foes chatter with each other over their Vietnam-era, two-way radio system. It’s such an antiquated system that the Taliban and the Afghan forces share radio frequencies, and verbal barbs, as they try to kill or capture one […]

  • Sad Day in Blighty

    In an end to three centuries of small arms leadership, Britain has announced that it will no longer make its own rifles. England has long been a leader in small arms development, both by the government Enfield factory and private manufacturers, with a storied past going back to the Brown Bess and including Civil War […]

  • Civil War Odds & Ends: May 1, 2009

    Civil War Odds & Ends looks at recent interesting Civil War news and notes from around the Civil War blogosphere and the web. Wargames Illustrated #261 will feature Civil War cavalry miniatures. The Richmond Times-Dispatch features an article about the inaugural event of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the America Civil War Commission. Archived webcasts of […]

  • Civil War Odds & Ends: April 18, 2009

    It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done an Odds & Ends post, so I’ll go over exactly what it is again here.  Civil War Odds & Ends posts are lists of interesting Civil War news stories I come across in my feed reader.  The idea is to provide TOCWOC’s readers with some interesting blog posts […]

  • Whose Father Was He?: Erroll Morris on The Mystery Soldier of Gettysburg

    TOCWOC Reader Joe Laird send me an email last week pointing out an excellent five part series of blog entries by filmmaker Erroll Morris at his blog Zoom on the New York Times web site.  Joe’s email reads as follows: Each day this week the New York Times ran a portion of a five-part essay […]