Category: Civil War on the Web
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Phenomenal Research Resources on CD/DVD from the National Archives, Part 1: Ordnance Returns
Editor’s Note: This post was cross-posted at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. Microfilm Rolls Available for Purchase Online from the National Archives As my Siege of Petersburg site Beyond the Crater continues to expand, my research has often led me to exciting and useful new resources online. One such recent example was […]
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Richard Sommers’ MASSIVE Thesis on the Fifth Offensive at Petersburg is FREE Online
I was pleasantly surprised tonight to find Richard Sommer’s massive 1500 page Ph. D. thesis freely available online tonight from Rice University. Written in 1970 and entitled “GRANT’S FIFTH OFFENSIVE AT PETERSBURG: A STUDY IN STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND GENERALSHIP. THE BATTLE OF CHAFFIN’S BLUFF, THE BATTLE OF POPLAR SPRING CHURCH, THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE […]
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The National Tribune: The Postwar Mouthpiece of the GAR is Online!
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater. While in the process of reading John J. Fox’s excellent new book on the defense of Fort Gregg and Fort Whitworth at Petersburg, I ran across several references to the National Tribune, a monthly and then weekly newspaper published from […]
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Help a Fellow Civil War Buff Find His Ancestor
UPDATE: Mr. Short’s ancestor was paroled in April 1865, not 1864 as was posted originally. TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog reader John Short recently sent us the following email: Hi – in the midst of an ever-expanding geneaology project, I’ve discovered that one of my ancestors was a POW at Andersonville. Isaac Bobb (OH) […]
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Have a Kindle? Subscribe to TOCWOC Today!
I’ve been looking into buying a Kindle for use with the thousands of Civil War books which are out of copyright, and in the process of doing that research, I discovered I could “publish” my Civil War blogs with Kindle to allow subscriptions via that product. For a small monthly fee, you can have TOCWOC […]
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Ancestry.com Free Weekend
Ancestry.com is honoring Veteran’s Day by having a free access weekend (Nov. 11-14), so here’s your chance to save some money (a TOCWOC specialty). You don’t even have to be a veteran (but you do have to give them your email address). Tarheel AP history teacher Betsy Newmark takes a look at some of what’s […]
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Nafziger Civil War Order of Battle Marathon over Memorial Day Weekend
Some people like Three Stooges marathons. Others watch War movies all weekend. I’ve done both in the past. TOCWOC will be launching an entire weekend of Nafziger Collection Civil War orders of battle, every hour on the hour, from now until Monday evening at midnight Central time. I’ll be celebrating and remembering my ancestors’ service […]