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Category: Civil War Magazines

  • My Whitworth Article in Civil War Times

    My article on Sir Joseph Whitworth is out in the new issue of Civil War Times. It’s a very much expanded version of a post I did a couple of years ago and delves more into the man’s prickly personality as well as his rifles and other accomplishments. I mention but do not really get […]

  • Complete Online Index of Civil War Times (Illustrated)

    I learned this morning via a tweet from Andrew Ferguson that a complete index of Civil War Times, something I had slowly been working on with little progress, is now online!  I’m a little busy today, but I plan to spend some time with this over the next few weeks.   It appears to be an […]

  • Buy Some Civil War Magazines For a Good Cause

    I recently received an email from Anita Collins, whose daughter is in a New Jersey Girl Scout Troup.  The girls received a large collection of Civil War magazines that they had planned to donate to a local nursing home, but the nursing home already had plenty of magazines.  At that point, Anita contacted TOCWOC – […]

  • Short Takes

    I came across this representation of a target shot a 500 yards by a .577 Enfield and a .451 Whitworth, which shows pretty clearly why the Whitworth made a better sharpshooter’s rifle. Source: W.W. Greener, The Gun and Its Development (1910) Google Books now has Life magazine in their collection, and among the issues is […]

  • America’s Civil War, Volume 22, Number 4 (September 2009) Posted

    An index and summary of America’s Civil War, Volume 22, Number 4 (September 2009) has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index. Harry Smeltzer has his own rundown of this issue at Bull Runnings. Did you enjoy this blog entry?  Please consider using the ShareThis feature below to spread the word […]

  • Blue and Gray, Volume 26, Number 1 Has Been Posted

    An index and summary of Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 26, Number 1 has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index. Did you enjoy this blog entry?  Please consider using the ShareThis feature below to spread the word and Subscribe to TOCWOC’s RSS feed today!

  • North & South Magazine, Volume 11, Number 4 (August 2009) Posted

    An index and summary of North & South Magazine, Volume 11, Number 4 (August 2009) has been posted at the American Civil War Magazines and Journals Index. Did you enjoy this blog entry?  Please consider using the ShareThis feature below to spread the word and Subscribe to TOCWOC’s RSS feed today!