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Tag Archives: Gettysburg
February-March Presentations
February: 12th: Chris Mackowski at the First Defender’s Civil War Roundtable (PA) March: 5th, 12th, and 19th: Kristopher White, “Gettysburg: The First Day In-Depth,” at the Community College of Allegheny County (PA) 6th: Chris Mackowski, “Chancellorsville: Crossroads of Fire,” at … Continue reading
A Monument for Amos
While organizing my photos of Gettysburg and researching monuments for future blog ideas, I discovered that there is a monument to Amos Humiston who I wrote about a few months ago. I’ve never seen this monument (I didn’t even know about … Continue reading
Grey Gettysburg
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Fatal Charge
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Why Do We Remember What We Remember? Richard Kirkland as the “Angel of Marye’s Heights”
Fredericksburg is a largely unmonumented battlefield. The most prominent monument on the southern end of the field is the “Meade pyramid” largely inaccessible to most visitors; besides that the remains of earthworks stand as a testament to what once occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 2nd South Carolina, Antietam, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Fredericksburg, Collateral Descendents of Richard Kirkland, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Joseph Kershaw, Kirkland Monument, linkedin, Marye's Heights, Meade Pyramid, Memory, monuments, National Civil War Museum, Richard Kirkland, Richard Rowland Kirkland Memorial Foundation, South Carolina, Sunken Road, Virginia
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Pick number three in my Top 10 List: A set of maps
The third book, or books, every Civil War buff needs on the bookshelf is a good set of maps. These are invaluable–nothing less. They give form to the function of a campaign or battle and, depending on your choices, can … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Preservation, Sieges
Tagged Antietam, atlas, Ball's Bluff, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Fredericksburg, Bloody Angle, Chancellorsville, Chris Mackowski, Elmer Ellsworth, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Gettysburg, maps, Shiloh
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Determination
For my birthday, I thought I would share a picture of one of my favorite Gettysburg monuments! See more photography from Kathleen Logothetis
Suicide by Union Bullet?: The Cases of A.P. Hill and Richard Garnett
Death is an occupational hazard for the soldier; it is a basic rule of warfare that there will be casualties. Soldiers face death when they enter battle, and accept that they must be willing to die for their country, their … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged "suicide by cop", Ambrose Powell Hill, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Kernstown, Boydton Plank Road, C.S. Venable, civil war casualties, Colonel Palmer, Corporal John W. Mauck, cowardice, Five Forks, Garnett Monument, Garnett's court martial, George Pickett, Gettysburg, gonorrhea, Harry Heath, Hollywood Cemetery, James Longstreet, Jenkins, linkedin, Petersburg, Pickett's Charge, Private Daniel Wolford, Richard Garnett, Richmond, Robert Anderson Bright, Robert E. Lee, Sergeant Tucker, Siege of Petersburg, Stonewall Jackson, suicide, Thomas J. Jackson, Turner Ashby, West Point
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