TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Introduction

  • It’s not what I do; it’s what I am

    Welcome to TOCWOC! That name was actually born on the Compuserve Civil War Forum, where I have been assistant sysop almost from the forum’s creation. We coined the phrase as a virtual award we presented to our members who woke up one morning and suddenly realized studying the Civil War is not something they do; […]

  • The Ground is Red… My Induction into This Great Conflict

    They say you are a green troop, a rookie if you will, until your baptism by fire. “See the elephant” and you will truly be inducted into the great armies of the world. My first glimpse at this elephant was when I was about 7 or 8 years old. My aunt moved to Virginia from […]

  • Welcome to TOCWOC

    I wanted to introduce myself briefly. Many of you know me from my books, and some of you probably know me from my own blog. Fear not: Rantings of a Civil War Historian will go on uninterrupted, and will remain my primary blogging outlet. I’m simply adding to it by joining this blog, too. For […]

  • My Influences: An Introductory Post

    I’ve often been asked by the people who know me why I love the study of the Civil War so much. My brother and sister are both into other time periods and subjects in history, so while the Civil War bores them, they at least understand my passion for the subject. My parents and my […]

  • An introduction…

    A small wooden bust of Abraham Lincoln was the flint which sparked my interest in the Civil War. At the age of 7, I was incapable of any deep thoughts about what Lincoln guided the country through, but I knew the Civil War and this fascinating man were interests I would hold for the rest […]

  • Introduction to my “Wonderful Obsession”

    Hi folks, Welcome to our blog. What follows is my ice breaker. Or how I got started and where my interests are with the “Late Unpleasantness” as people in the southern part of the USA still refer to the American Civil War. When I was 9 years old, my sister decided she was going to […]

  • TOCWOC – A New Civil War Blog Coming Soon!

    Hello and welcome to our brand new Civil War group blog, TOCWOC (The Order of Civil War Obsessively Compulsed)! The purpose of this blog is to bring together a large group of Civil War “amateurs”, those of us who do not study the war as our day job (not just yet anyway!), who have a […]