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B&G Article on Fort Stedman: Who Probed Fort Friend?
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | September 2nd 2008
In my last post I looked the attacks on the attacks on Battery IX and Fort McGilvery in the northern sector, where I concluded that Gen. Walker got three brigades into action (Lewis, Kasey and Ransom) but failed to make a coordinated attack on Batter read more
B&G Article on Fort Stedman: the Attacks on Battery IX
TOCWOC | August 28th 2008
After having looked at the initial assault, it’s time to take a look at the northern sector and attacks on Battery IX and Fort McGilvery. Maj. Gen. Orlando Willcox, whose division was attacked, stated that there were three Confederate columns: read more
Civil War Music Part III- Soundtracks
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | August 14th 2008
I apologize for not posting Part III earlier, the last few weeks have been very hectic. To see the other music reviews, please visit Civil War Music Part I Civil War Music Part II Here in the 3rd of my 3 part series, I look at soundtracks of the Ci read more
Appomattox Surrender Document Found?
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | August 3rd 2008
During a move a Philadelphia museum has found what they think might be one of the original surrender documents signed at Appomattox. Long thought to be a photocopy, it has been authenticated as original, although there is a question as to whether it& read more
Civil War Music Part II
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | August 1st 2008
Earlier this week, I wrote about what I classify as Civil War “Field Music” such as fife & drum bands and regimental brass bands. While regimental brass bands can also be used for dance music, I personally categorize dance music as s read more
Civil War Era Music, Part I
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | July 29th 2008
For almost fifteen years now, I have enjoyed listening to music of the period, or music written about Civil War events. Nothing gets me going like a good fife & drum rendition of the Bonnie Blue Flag or Hell on the Wabash. As a matter of fact read more
What is PFD and How Do You Find It?: Counting Heads In Civil War…
TOCWOC | July 28th 2008
Note: Prior to reading this post, it will be a good idea to have the Consolidated Morning Report of the 91st Pennsylvania for September 26, 1863 open in another browser window. I’ve set up the link above to open in a new window for your conve read more
A Guide to Civil War Books for Beginners, Part 1: Civil War Overv…
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | July 21st 2008
This is the first of hopefully many blog entries for beginning Civil War readers about Civil War books they might like to read. This is not a post aimed at children or young adults, though I do hope to target those audiences in the future as well. read more
Hey y’all
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | July 9th 2008
Hello. My name is Matthew Young, and I’m a Civil War junkie. That’s why this blog appealed to me so much to begin with. I found it totally by accident while browsing in the AGEOD ACW Forums. The more I read, the more I enjoyed it. I read more
John Lynn on Military History
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | June 11th 2008
NOTE: Hat tip to John Maass at A Student of History blog. John Lynn, Professor of History at my alma mater, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, has an excellent article up at the National Association of Scholars web site. Professor Lynn read more
Civil War web sites of interest
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | May 30th 2008
Delevan Bates was a New Yorker who signed up with the 121st New York in 1861. He served as a lieutenant but later took a commission as colonel of the 30th U.S.C.T. Bates, who lived after the war in Nebraska, nevertheless wrote many articles for the O read more
Brett’s Regimental Level OOBs (Orders of Battle) Integrated Int…
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | May 14th 2008
I just wanted to post a short note indicating I have moved my “Regimental Level OOBs” page from brettschulte.net proper to new pages within TOCWOC. In these pages, I have created... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo read more
A letter from Virginia, January 1864
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | May 3rd 2008
I recently had the privilege of doing some research at the Perkins Library at Duke University in Durham. It has, I am told, the largest collection of unpublished Confederate manuscripts in the world. I had only a day and could barely scratch the surf read more
Directory of History Dissertations: A Nice Search Tool
TOCWOC | April 17th 2008
I was looking through Rene Tyree’s links over at wig-wags one day last week when I happened to notice a link to the AHA Directory of History Dissertations. This is a wonderful tool for finding dissertations on Civil War topics. I did a keywor read more
Cloyd Allen Smith, Jr.’s Sailor’s Creek Thesis from Texas A&M
TOCWOC | April 6th 2008
I was looking through a couple of Google searches which had led people to TOCWOC today when I stumbled on a PDF version of Cloyd Allen Smith’s thesis on Sailor’s Creek. As a Civil War reader, I’ve always been a person who likes to read more
Cloyd Allen Smith, Jr.’s Sailor’s Creek Thesis from Texas A&M
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | April 6th 2008
I was looking through a couple of Google searches which had led people to TOCWOC today when I stumbled on a PDF version of Cloyd Allen Smith’s thesis on Sailor’s Creek. As a Civil War reader, I’ve always been a person who likes to read more
Valentine scrapbook
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | March 26th 2008
Came across a very nice scrapbook of illustrations by a Union veteran H. E. Valentine, mostly of Eighteenth Corps in the Petersburg area. The ink wash drawings are here, and if you hunt around there are some higher res versions available. More letter read more
Valentine scrapbook
TOCWOC | March 26th 2008
Came across a very nice scrapbook of illustrations by a Union veteran H. E. Valentine, mostly of Eighteenth Corps in the Petersburg area. The ink wash drawings are here, and if you hunt around there are some higher res versions available. More letter read more
Osprey Publishing
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | March 22nd 2008
Those of us in the miniature wargaming hobby are very well aware of the British book publisher, Osprey. Based in Oxford, the company was originally created as a subsidiary of a tea company that had packaged trading cards of military aircraft with the read more
Why did Everton Conger burn down Richard Garrett’s tobacco barn…
American Civil War Gaming & Reading | October 20th 2007
Of all the stories regarding Everton J. Conger and his successful capture of John Wilkes Booth, one that has always intrigued me is why did Conger decide it was time to fire Richard Garrett’s tobacco barn after hours of making what seemed empty read more
Civil War (and other) Research
TOCWOC | September 23rd 2007
When I was in college 25 plus years ago, doing research consisted mainly of going to the library, pulling books and journals off the shelf, slogging through reel after reel of microfilm and, if you were lucky, finding a gem or two that was buried dee read more
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