Review—The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

Richard Slotkin. The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2012. 478 pages, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronology. ISBN 978-0-87140-411-4. $32.95 Richard Slotkin’s new history on the Antietam Campaign, The Long Road to Antietam, describes the Civil war as “a genuinely revolutionary crisis in American history” (xv). Slotkin, historian […]

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“Oh It Was a Terrible Day”: The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg

The popular focus on the Battle of Fredericksburg is that of the Union Soldiers, time after time, engaging in failed assaults on the Confederate lines on the stonewall at the base of Marye’s Heights. Possibly the worst executed engagement of the war by the Federals, many have forgotten that the battle was nearly won south […]

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Simply Murder Book Signing

As a reminder, Chris Mackowski will be at the Fredericksburg Battlefield Bookstore on December 13th signing copies of Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg. The signing is set to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Stop by and say hi to Chris.

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More Scenes from the Sunken Road

Sunday, December 9 started quiet and foggy in Fredericksburg. As I looked across the Slaughter Pen Farm, I could imagine the morning of December 13, 1862, as the men of John Reynolds’ First Corps looked across that same ground, through fog that might’ve been a little thicker. The quietude would soon break for them—just as […]

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Remembering the Fallen

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Question of the Week for Dec. 11, 2012

What was the superior defensive position: the Sunken Road at Antietam, the Sunken Road at Fredericksburg, or the Sunken Road at Shiloh?

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Scenes from the Sunken Road

I had a pretty limited perspective of the many events going on in Fredericksburg yesterday because I spent the day working along the Sunken Road and the Stone Wall (which is one of my favorite places to interpret, so I wasn’t too disappointed at all!) However, I did manage to snag a few photos to […]

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“Simply Murder” in Fredericksburg

On Saturday morning, Chris Mackowski (left) and Kris White (right) debuted the initial volume in the new Emerging Civil War book series from Savas Beatie, Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg. The two authors appeared at the Fredericksburg Visitor Center’s bookstore and museum shop at the start of the day.

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Jeff Davis, R.I.P.

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