Category: Civil War on the Web

  • Short Takes

    Came across a very nicely done site on vintage battleships, including a section on the ships of the US Civil War. Some nice trivia here as well. Did you know that the twin-turret monitor Onondaga, which served on the James River, later went on to a distinguished career in the French Navy that ended just […]

  • Lincoln and the Laws of War

    John Fabian Witt, a professor of legal history at Columbia University, pens an article in Slate about Lincoln’s Laws of War, and how the Bush administration supposedly attempted to destroy them. This is amusing, since when it comes to prosecuting a war George Bush is a pantywaist compared to the Great Emancipator. Witt wraps the […]

  • New Civil War Blog: Everythingcivilwar’s Blog

    We have another new addition to the Civil War blog ranks, Chris Loperfido’s Everythingcivilwar’s Blog.  Chris is a former intern at the Gettysburg National Military Park and is currently working on a book about the letters of Civil War surgeon James D. Benton of the 111th New York.  Join me in welcoming Chris to the […]

  • Permanent Page for sfcdan’s Excellent Campaign Studies at History Forum

    Long time History Channel forum poster sfcdan has done quite a few multi-post campaign sketches on the History Channel forum.  These posts are a nice change of pace from the constant quarrels over slavery that appear there endlessly, day after day. I thought it might be a nice idea to collect sfcdan’s posts at one […]

  • Civil War Talk’s Civil War Blog Reader Forum

    I subscribe to a large number of blogs using Google Reader.  One of the searches I do finds links to TOCWOC’s URL, and it was in the results of this search that I first came across Civil War Talk’s “Civil War Blog Reader” forum.  Excerpts and links from various Civil War blogs are posted in […]

  • Watch The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Online

    Did that title draw you in?  Yes?  Was it misleading?  To an extent, yes it was.  🙂 Though I missed the deluge of Lincoln literature yesterday on the 200th anniversary of Honest Abe’s birth, I did want to pass along an interesting Lincoln-related web site I found while surfing through the various Civil War forums […]

  • Sale on Lincoln and Civil War Books at Indiana University Press

    I recently received an email from the Indiana University Press touting their new February 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial Book Sale. The sale lasts until the end of February and works as follows: Celebrate Lincoln’s bicentennial this month with big savings on our Lincoln and Civil War books! Plus, receive free domestic ground shipping on orders $25 […]