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Tag Archives: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Making Memorial Day
The notes of Taps float over the breeze as thousands of candles bravely flicker against the brisk wind. It is 8:00, the start of the 18th Annual Luminaria at Fredericksburg National Cemetery. After a few opening remarks the park staff … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Scouts, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg Christian Middle School, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg National Cemetery Luminaria, Luminaria, Memorial Day
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“Uncle John” — R.I.P.
The monument to “Uncle John” Sedgwick, who was killed by a sharpshooter on May 9, 1864–149 years ago today at the Battle of Spotsylvania. “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance,” Sedgwick said just before taking a bullet below … 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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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, CVC, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Jackson Wounding monument, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Shaping-Chancellorsville
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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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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, CCC, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Civilian Conservation Corps, Crackerbox Meeting, Douglas Southall Freeman, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Jackson Shrine, James Power Smith, Lee-Jackson bivouac site, Lost Cause, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, reenacting, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Virginia Military Institute, VMI
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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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Secret Garden
See more photography from Kathleen Logothetis
A Chicken Couldn’t Live on That Field…..
Confederate guns on Marye’s Heights loom over the town of Fredericksburg and the pain below… See more photography from Kathleen Logothetis
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Tagged Battle of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, linkedin, Logothetis-Photos, Marye's Heights, Photography
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Mercy
For more on the Kirkland Story, see my previous post See more photography from Kathleen Logothetis
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Photography, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Battle of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Kirkland Monument, linkedin, Logothetis-Photos, monuments, Photography, Richard Kirkland
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