TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Civilians

  • Short Takes

    Did you know that US president and Union Civil War general Rutherford B. Hayes is a national hero in … Paraguay? Forget Lincoln or Washington. Hayes – a one-term U.S. president who is undistinguished at home – has a holiday, a province, a town, a museum and a soccer team all named in his honor, […]

  • Review: Fear in North Carolina

    Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family by Karen L. Clinard (Compiler), Richard Russell (Compiler) Paperback: 443 pages Publisher: Reminiscing Books; First edition (April 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 0979396131 ISBN-13: 978-0979396137 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches Price: $29.95 Social history is very much in fashion these […]

  • Black Confederates

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  • Human Interest Stories From Antietam: Vignette 4

    Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the last of four entries I hope to devote to the subject. I’ll […]

  • Dave Powell Comments on The Hard Hand of War

    Dave Powell posted an excellent and lengthy response to my recent review of Mark Grimsley’s The Hard Hand of War in the comments section following the entry.  Dave brings up a great point about the lack of studies examining Confederate soldiers’ destruction of their own civilian property.  In order to allow the most people to […]

  • Human Interest Stories From Antietam: Vignette 3

    Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the third of four entries I hope to devote to the subject. I’ll […]

  • Further Discussion on Mark Grimsley’s The Hard Hand of War

    In an interesting coincidence, Mark Grimsley blogged about his recent remarks at the March 29 Organization of American Historians round table. Why coincidence you say? Because Mark spoke about the destructiveness of the Civil War around the same time I was reviewing and blogging about The Hard Hand of War, his book on the subject. […]