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Category Archives: Preservation
Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front at Civil War Monitor
Civil War Monitor is featuring today an excerpt from Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church by ECW’s Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White: It’s easy to miss what remains of the Salem Church battlefield, and … Continue reading
A Day on the Day One Battlefield at Chancellorsville
Spring 2006 My daughter and and I arrive at the Day One battlefield—called the “Lick Run Battlefield”—at 8:45 a.m. Several other volunteers have arrived before us. They stand in front of a small building that had once been a farmer’s … Continue reading
Shaping Chancellorsville: CVC
part six in a series In 1957, the FSNMP master plan called for the addition of a visitor center at Chancellorsville to replace the contact station built by the CCC.[1] Original plans called for placing the building on the south side … Continue reading
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Shaping Chancellorsville: The first reenactment and ‘The Last Meeting’
part five in a series In 1933, administration of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park was turned over to the National Park Service, and shortly thereafter, the NPS invited the Civilian Conservation Corps to come in to the park … Continue reading
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Shaping Chancellorsville: Establishing the park
part four in a series After the Chancellorsville Battlefield Association fizzled, a second effort to establish a battlefield park got underway in the area in 1898, sparked first by the Fredericksburg City Council, joined later by the Virginia state legislature. … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Calvin Coolidge, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, presidents, Ralph Happel, Shaping-Chancellorsville
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Shaping Chancellorsville: Pre-park preservation efforts
part three in a series While the Jackson Monument represents the first effort to set aside property at Chancellorsville, efforts were soon underway to preserve far more of the battlefield. By 1891, a group of northern and southern veterans formed … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Chancellorsville Battlefield Association, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Shaping-Chancellorsville
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Shaping Chancellorsville: The first memory memorialized on the field
part two in a series The first effort to mark out events on the Chancellorsville Battlefield came as early at 1883, although some accounts suggest it happened as early as 1876. Former members of Stonewall Jackson’s staff placed a large … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Fitzhugh Lee, FRSP, FSNMP, Jackson Rock, Jackson wounding, James Power Smith, John Sedgwick, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson
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Shaping Chancellorsville: How memories of the battle shaped the battlefield
part one in a series It has become the stuff of legends: Astride his horse, Traveller, Robert. E. Lee rides into the Chancellorsville clearing, the mansion in flames behind him, his men gathered ‘round with hats off, cheering wildly. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Gary Gallagher, lee's greatest victory, Lost Cause, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Robert E. Lee, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson
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Beyond the 150th: Where academic and public historians are one and the same
by Rebekeh Oakes, part of an ongoing series One hundred and fifty years ago, the sleepy town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania became the sight of a bloody three-day battle immortalized in the American consciousness. This past March, Gettysburg College was flooded … Continue reading
Beyond the 150th: “Find excited, enthusiastic students who are willing to work hard”
Earlier this month, Gettysburg College, the NPS, and the Gettysburg Foundation held a three-day conference called “The Future of Civil War History: Looking Beyond the 150th.” We’ve asked several folks who attended the conference to share their thoughts as emerging historians … Continue reading
