TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Miscellaneous

  • C.S.S. Jack Daniels

    Not really, but this Prohibition-era whiskey-running submarine, preserved at the Grand Gulf battlefield, is still pretty cool. Other than the lack of a spar torpedo and of course considering that it was powered by an automobile engine (from a Model T) it is strikingly similar in appearance to the H. L. Hunley. This isn’t really […]

  • Civil War on the Web (and one other)

    John Swansburg takes a marathon Civil War tour from Vicksburg to Gettysburg and wonders if he can become an expert that way. The answer is “no” but it’s still a fun read. Gettysburg on Segways? Over the course of this road trip, my companions and I have found ourselves drawn to certain figures, and we’ve […]

  • Civil War on the Web

    An AP article on women re-enactors: With her breasts tightly bound, shoulder-length red hair tucked under a shaggy auburn wig and upper lip hidden by a drooping mustache, Henry impersonates Lt. Harry T. Buford, a real-life Confederate soldier. The impression could hardly be more accurate since Buford, too, was a woman. He was invented by […]

  • An Interview With The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook Collaborators J.D. Petruzzi and Steven Stanley

    A chat with Civil War author J. David Petruzzi and cartographer Steven Stanley about their new book project with Savas Beatie Q: I’m familiar with Savas Beatie’s The New Civil War Handbook and The New American Revolution Handbook, but can you explain the books and their format for those of our readers who are not? […]

  • And the Far Left Wonders Why Everyone Hates Them

    I have been seriously catching up on my Civil War blog reading lately after spending the better part of July-November 2010 getting married.  Imagine my anger when I read the following comments about TOCWOC in the first comment following Andy Hall’s post taking Jim Durney to task for his Black Confederates blog entry awhile back.  […]

  • Any Other Civil War Buffs Out There Using StumbleUpon?

    As I stumbled Craig Swain’s post about HMDB.com making the April 2011 issue of Civil War Times (congrats Craig), I started thinking about other Civil War buffs out there and whether or not they use StumbleUpon.  I’d like to see what others are stumbling since I will probably be interested.  If you have a StumbleUpon […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg

    Editor’s Note: This Civil War book review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater earlier today. Hess, Earl J. Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg. The University of South Carolina Press (September 30, 2010). 352 pp., 45 illustrations, maps, order of battle, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-57003-922-5 $44.95 (Cloth). […]