Category: Introduction
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To Arms! Falling in With TOCWOC!
Editor’s Note: Please welcome Matt Hyson, one of a number of new amateur Civil War bloggers here at TOCWOC. Matt and the rest of the group are here to bring some fresh new perspectives to TOCWOC, a blog I founded back in late 2006. My goal is to bring you the reader fresh content from […]
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Down On the Bayou
Editor’s Note: Please welcome Robert Webb, one of a number of new amateur Civil War bloggers here at TOCWOC. Robert and the rest of the group are here to bring some fresh new perspectives to TOCWOC, a blog I founded back in late 2006. My goal is to bring you the reader fresh content from […]
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Blogging Virgin
Editor’s Note: Please welcome Dan O’Connell, one of a number of new amateur Civil War bloggers here at TOCWOC. Dan and the rest of the group are here to bring some fresh new perspectives to TOCWOC, a blog I founded back in late 2006. My goal is to bring you the reader fresh content from […]
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False Memories – A Charge That Never Happened
One of the great challenges of Civil War research is figuring out when an eyewitness source is reporting a false, or falsified, memory. I can remember when, like many with a budding interest in the Civil War, I would read an historian’s account of a battle or a meeting and accept that account at face […]
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Dean West’s Bio
Editor’s Note: Dean West has graciously decided to join TOCWOC as a new blogger. Dean’s recent comments on one of Fred Ray’s posts and the resulting email exchange which followed made it clear Dean was one of the “obsessively compulsed” amateur Civil War historians who fit the profile of a TOCWOC blogger. A little bit […]
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Marty Hancock’s Introductory Post
My interest in the Civil War began in the early 60’s, when a local Philadelphia newspaper did a series of articles for the War’s 100th Anniversary. This was during my pre-high school days and I was hopelessly hooked. I remember correcting a history teacher, an Irish nun, on certain details regarding the War. She probably […]
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Glad to be on board
Hello all. My name is Jessica James and Brett has kindly invited me to join TOCWOC as a fiction reviewer. I love to read good, solidly written historical fiction that entertains while being informative and educational. I know many historians turn their noses up at fiction, but I think it’s a great way to draw […]