Category: Civil War on the Web
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A Top Notch Source for Unit History Bibliographies
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater earlier today. The U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center site is chock full of interesting and useful Civil War materials. Today, I want to highlight the Civil War Unit Bibliographies area of the Resource Guides/Finding Aids section of the site. As many readers of TOCWOC […]
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Discovering the Civil War Online with American Military University, Part 1
UPDATE: The Discovering the Civil War Online Presentation is available to everyone free online. I “attended” a webcast put on by American Public University and hosted by Dan Soschin on March 3, 2010. Fellow bloggers Rene Tyree, Jim Schmidt, James Rosebrock and Rea Andrew Redd were in attendance. The webcast featured three presentations related to […]
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New Civil War Battle Blog: Scott Patchan’s Shenandoah 1864
I received an email from Facebook tonight which alerted me to Scott C. Patchan’s new battle blog, Shenandoah 1864: The Valley Campaign. Scott is an expert on the lesser known 1864 Valley Campaign, much less covered than its famous 1862 cousin. He has authored three books on the subject, The Forgotten Fury: The Battle of […]
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Battle Ranges
The range at which an enemy soldier can be engaged on the battlefield is a factor that has occupied both soldiers and pundits since the invention of firearms. In Civil War circles much of the recent controversy has centered around Paddy Griffith’s revisionist work Battle Tactics of the Civil War, in which he argued that […]
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Nafziger Collection of Civil War (and other) Orders of Battle Now FREE Online
UPDATE 2: Kathy Buker pointed out in the comments below that the official URL for the Nafziger collection is: http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.htm UPDATE: I’ve finally managed to download all of the OOB files via a script provided by a friend and noticed that many of the American Civil War orders of battle are missing for some reason. […]
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150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address
I received an email from Timothy Wroten of The New-York Historical Society concerning the upcoming museum exhibit on Abraham Lincoln’s famous 1860 Cooper Union speech. In his speech, Lincoln covered the topic of slavery and how to deal with that issue in new territories, the characterization of the Republican party as a “sectional” rather than […]
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Army of the Potomac Ordnance at the Battle of Fredericksburg
I was browsing the web for Quarterly Ordnance Returns (i.e. the type and number of weapons each unit had at a given time) for the Army of the Potomac. I found a gem at the Fredericksburg National Battlefield site. Historian Eric Mink apparently transcribed the Ordnance returns for the Army of the Potomac for the […]