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Category: Civil War Units

  • In The Review Queue: Three New Books in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set Series

    The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog.  These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. I was delighted to receive in the mail yesterday […]

  • Glory and Tarheels

    Blogger/journalist Jules Crittenden reminds us that today is the 146th anniversary of the doomed assault of the 54th Massachusetts on Fort Wagner, near Charleston. Although the attack was a failure it proved that Black soldiers would fight and led to their integration into the Union armies. By the end of the war some ten percent […]

  • In the Review Queue: A Tactical Innovator’s Regiment

    The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog.  These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. The Civil War publishing world definitely appears to be […]

  • Review: A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables

    This is the fourth and final review of the inaugural titles in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in the series in terms of regimental history length, amount of annotation, depth and print size […]

  • Short Takes

    Footnote.com has added the Compiled Service Records of Union soldiers from Kentucky. Additional Union records for the following: * Civil War Soldiers – Union – AR * Civil War Soldiers – Union – Colored Troops 8th-13th Infantry * Civil War Soldiers – Union – MS * Civil War Soldiers – Union – UT * Civil […]

  • Review: The 13th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry C.S.A. by Mike Wadsworth

    This is the third of four reviews scheduled for Tuesdays in March.  Each review will cover one of the first four volumes of the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in the series in terms […]

  • An Interview With Author Jim Parrish

    UPDATE: Drew Wagenhoffer has a complimentary review of Parrish’s book on Civil War Books and Authors. John Fox, the man behind Angle Valley Press, passed along this interview with Jim Parrish, author of the recently-released Wiregrass to Appomattox, a history of the 50th Georgia. I have a copy but have not yet had a chance […]