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Category Archives: Battlefields & Historic Places
Making Sense of Chickamauga
I’ve heard the phrase “hot mess” before, but Chickamauga National Battlefield gave it a whole new meaning. The first time I visited, about seven years ago, temperatures soared into the upper nineties with a humidity of about 700%. Because few … Continue reading
Stories in Stone: 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry
At the intersection of the Chambersburg Pike and Reynolds Avenue stands a tall white stone slab with a figure in relief on its face. He faces away from the town, looking towards the Confederate line. It is in plain sight … Continue reading
War in the House of God: Salem Church
A lesser known part of the Chancellorsville campaign is the battle that swirled around Salem Church on May 3rd and 4th, 1863.
Remembering the war, the centennial, and the sesquicentennial
Guest-poster Caroline Davis is wrapping up an internship at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Now that the dust has settled from the Chancellorsville sesquicentennial, we asked her to reflect on what she learned from the commemoration. Because her work … Continue reading
Heaven Shines on Home Field Advantage
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Tagged Chickamauga, Georgia, monuments, Photography
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Soldier from the Sunshine State
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New Yorkers Under a South Carolina Crescent atop a Tennessee Mountain
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Tagged Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Photography
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On the 149th Anniversary of the Bloody Angle
In the midst of the Chancellorsville sesquicentennial, the 149th anniversary of the battle of the Wilderness slipped by unnoticed, and the anniversary of the battle of Spotsylvania Court House arrived without fanfare. But I’ve taken it upon myself as my … Continue reading
Hidden in the Bushes
The monument to Parker’s Virginia Battery stands as the lone monument to the Second Battle of Fredericksburg. Dedicated on May 3rd, 1973, this monument on the south end of Willis Hill, memorializes the efforts of Lt. J. Thompson Brown’s section … Continue reading
Fateful Lightning: Was Sherman’s March To the Sea a War Crime? Part I
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Civilian, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Newspapers, Personalities, Politics, Sieges, Western Theater
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