TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Category: Preservation

  • Preservation: How to Do It Right

    Centex Homes of Texas gets kudos for its willingness to work with local preservation groups so as to save a battlefield but still get to develop the land surrounding the battlefield. In an unprecedented partnership that should serve as the template for all such efforts, Centex agreed to carve out the Bristoe Station battlefield site […]

  • You Learn Something New…

    I just happened to read about a new preservation effort concerning the tomb of Winfield Scott Hancock’s wife this evening in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story. It seems that the W.S. Hancock Society of Norristown, PA wants has offered to help preserve Almira Hancock’s tomb, now in poor condition in St. Louis’ Bellefontaine Cemetery. I […]

  • “Saving” The Gettysburg Cyclorama, Just thinking out loud!

    I had stopped in Borders Bookstores here in New Jersey to get a cup of coffee and do some quiet reading.. I picked up a copy of one of the Civil War magazines and in it was an article on the group that is SUING the NPS to “Save” the Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg. For […]

  • An Extremely Valuable Resource

    I wanted to make you all aware of an extremely valuable resource. As a publisher of books, I’m aware of the value of print-on-demand (“POD”) publishing. POD makes it possible for a publisher to have a book in its inventory that may only sell five or six copies over the course of a year. If […]