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  • Lincoln Tales and Photos

    A hidden message in Abe Lincoln’s pocket watch? Or so watchmaker Jonathan Dillon told his descendants. Truth or fable? Today they opened the watch to see… U.S. Grant’s descendant looks in great-grandpa’s photo album and finds a previously unknown photo of Lincoln in front of the White House. UPDATE: More here with a look at […]

  • March 2009 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! March 2009 James Durney *************************************************************** New Releases Scheduled for April 7 is Winston Groom’s Vicksburg, 1863. Winston Groom is an excellent author with several histories. Shrouds of Glory: from Atlanta to Nashville: the Last Great Campaign of the Civil War was his last book on the Civil War. On April […]

  • 21st Century Abe: A New Web Site for the Lincoln Bicentennial

    Alexis Lerro, the Project Manager and Research Coordinator at 21st Century Abe, a new Lincoln web site created for the Lincoln Bicentennial, recently contacted TOCWOC with some information about the site: PHILADELPHIA — The Rosenbach Museum & Library commemorates Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday with the launch of 21stCenturyAbe.org. The interactive website is now live and […]

  • Short Takes

    Came across a very nicely done site on vintage battleships, including a section on the ships of the US Civil War. Some nice trivia here as well. Did you know that the twin-turret monitor Onondaga, which served on the James River, later went on to a distinguished career in the French Navy that ended just […]

  • Lincoln and the Laws of War

    John Fabian Witt, a professor of legal history at Columbia University, pens an article in Slate about Lincoln’s Laws of War, and how the Bush administration supposedly attempted to destroy them. This is amusing, since when it comes to prosecuting a war George Bush is a pantywaist compared to the Great Emancipator. Witt wraps the […]

  • Short Takes

    Did you know that US president and Union Civil War general Rutherford B. Hayes is a national hero in … Paraguay? Forget Lincoln or Washington. Hayes – a one-term U.S. president who is undistinguished at home – has a holiday, a province, a town, a museum and a soccer team all named in his honor, […]

  • Watch The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Online

    Did that title draw you in?  Yes?  Was it misleading?  To an extent, yes it was.  🙂 Though I missed the deluge of Lincoln literature yesterday on the 200th anniversary of Honest Abe’s birth, I did want to pass along an interesting Lincoln-related web site I found while surfing through the various Civil War forums […]