Category: Preservation
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Stop Wal-Mart at the Wilderness Battlefield
The Civil War blogosphere is alive with concern over Wal-Mart’s recently released plan to build a Super Wal-Mart just north of the Wilderness battlefield. I wanted to make sure to add my voice in opposition to this Wal-Mart. There are FOUR other Wal-Mart’s in a 20 mile radius, for crying out loud! A Super Wal-Mart […]
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Delays Due to Server Failure
Just a quick note to let everyone know TOCWOC is back online. My web host had a server failure and lost not only the last few days of posts for me but also my scheduled posts for the next two weeks. I have most of that information still available, but it is going to take […]
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The Good guys win one for a change
Hi All, I didn’t realize till today that it has been a VERY long time since I posted here. I have been so busy with new job, the two books and then well just life that I forgot to post here. During a trip to Gettysburg for a special preview of the New Visitor Center […]
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Alabama Flags Need Restoration
A nice article on Civil War flag restoration in the Montgomery Advertiser.
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Historic View Restoration at Antietam
I read with interest Brian Downey’s recent post over at behind AotW about some tree planting efforts near Burnside Bridge on the Antietam Battlefield to form a riparian buffer. Many of you know of the continuing efforts at Gettysburg to restore the battlefield to sight lines more representative of July 1863. After taking in Brian’s […]
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How Meth Labs and Civil War Preservation Are Linked
According to a recent report by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste, a recent $2,000,000 land expansion project by the Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park and the organization of a Tennessee Meth Lab Task Force in Chattanooga are both examples of pork barrel projects in the Chattanooga area. In a news article on the […]
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“My ground is more sacred than your ground!”
In my previous life as a newspaper writer, I found myself having to deal with all kinds of zealots. But the worst were environmentalists (even more so than religious nuts). I never met a group of people so sure they were right and everyone else was wrong who didn’t agree with their point of view. […]