TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Generals

  • Short Takes

    When you’re firing that nifty new replica cannon you built, try not to drop a round shot through your neighbor’s medicine cabinet as it tends to strain neighborly relations. Video here. And speaking of big guns, there’s always that double- barreled Confederate cannon, which can still be viewed at Athens, GA. A young Yankee soldier, […]

  • REVIEW: Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer

    Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer by Matthew J. Grow Jan 19, 2009 368 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 16 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300136104 ISBN-10: 0300136102 Cloth: $40.00 Matthew Grow’s new book Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer is a bio of one of the little known but […]

  • Review: Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg

    Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg by James A. Hessler Product Details Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (June 29, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714642 ISBN-13: 978-1932714647 If this were fiction, I would say the author’s main character is not […]

  • Review: The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and the East Tennessee Cavalry

    Gordon, Larry. The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and the East Tennessee Cavalry. Zenith Press (March 15, 2009). 272 pages, illustrations, maps, index. ISBN: 978-0760335178 $27.00 (Hardcover). Who was the last Confederate general to surrender in the Eastern Theater?  Even hardcore students of the Civil War would be hard pressed to find the answer […]

  • Should Ewell have taken “That Hill”?

    Last weekend was my second trip to Gettysburg. Living in the deep south, some 13 hours away by car, it is sometimes difficult to get to places that we really want to go. That being said, it was my very FIRST time to Culp’s Hill. The first time I went (three years ago), I went […]

  • Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan

    Eric J. Wittenberg. Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, Inc.; First Edition (2002). 250 pp., 22 maps, notes, index.. ISBN: 1-57488-385-2 $24.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). Often described as a “lawyer’s brief” by the author and others, Eric Wittenberg’s Little Phil is not a flattering portrait […]

  • This Granger and Steedman Thing!

    I have long been somewhat mildly disturbed by the story of the “last moment” arrival of Major General Gordon Granger with Brigadier General James B. Steedman’s First Division of the Reserve Corps of the Army of the Cumberland to the aid of Major General George H. Thomas in the late afternoon of September 20, 1863 […]