TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Eastern Theater

  • Civil War Talk Radio: October 16, 2009

    Air Date: 101609 Subject: Antietam National Battlefield Web Site:  Antietam National Battlefield Guest: Ted Alexander, Chief Historian at Antietam Summary: Ted Alexander, the Chief Historian at Antietam National Battlefield, talks about his job and the site he has loved since he was a boy. Brett’s Summary: Note: I missed part of the first segment this […]

  • Last Shots of the War

    One of our local columnists, Rob Neufeld, pens a short item on the last shots of the war, which were supposedly fired right here in Western NC. What caught my eye is that they were fired by sharpshooters under the command of Lt. Robert Conley of Company F, Thomas Legion on May 6, 1865. On […]

  • Announcing Beyond the Crater: A New Petersburg Campaign Web Site

    Ever since Harry Smeltzer started his Bull Runnings blog/site focusing on the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), I’ve wanted to do something similar for the Petersburg Campaign.  I’m happy to say I’ve finally started on that project.  The new web site is called Beyond the Crater: The Civil War Petersburg Campaign Online.  The site […]

  • Review: The Maps of First Bull Run by Bradley Gottfried

    Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, June-October 1861. Savas Beatie LLC (June 10, 2009). 144 pages, 51 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1932714609 $34.95 (Hardcover). What do you get when a publisher long known for its […]

  • Review: In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat

    In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat by Earl J. Hess Product Details Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English ISBN-10: 0807832820 ISBN-13: 978-0807832820 Joined with “Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns” and “Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in […]

  • Short Takes

    Real world has been intruding again, leaving little time for blogging. Nevertheless… A group of academics, some of them historians, urged President Obama not to lay a wreath at the Confederate memorial in Arlington on Memorial Day. One of them was James McPherson. Now my opinion of McP has been declining for a while, as […]

  • Thoughts on Struggle for the Shenandoah as The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 Goes to Paperback

    Drew Wagenhoffer’s review of the paperback version of The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 yesterday led me to go back and read my own multi part summary of the *other* Gary Gallagher produced 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign book Struggle for the Shenandoah , including a review and a bibliography of the campaign.  Before Gallagher was […]