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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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The Forgotten 5th Corps…Part 4
I bet you thought I forgot about them as well! Part four in a series. As the last of Caldwell’s Division and Sweitzer’s Brigade were driven by Anderson’s, Semmes, Wofford, and Kershaw’s Brigades, help was desperately needed. The Wheatfield was … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 5th Corps, George Anderson, George Meade, George Rose, George Sykes, Hannibal Day, John Caldwell, Joseph Kershaw, Little Round Top, Romeyn Ayres, Rose Woods, Sidney Burbank, The Forgotten 5th Corps, The Wheatfield, William Wofford
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