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“Life Given, Not Lost”: Captain Morey’s Final Charge—Part One
We are happy to welcome guest author Edward Alexander. Edward Alexander is the Education & Interpretation Specialist at Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, Virginia. A 2009 graduate of the University of Illinois, he has also worked with Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania … Continue reading
Question of the Week #5
“Which Valley Campaign had a larger impact on the war in the east, the 1862 Valley Campaign or the 1864 Valley Campaign?”
Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 8
Part eight in a series. Southern postwar writings were also particularly influential in how they helped to shape the nation’s collective understanding of the war and its meaning. In the south Confederate Veteran Magazine was very popular among historians and … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Alexander Stephens, Battle of Champion's Hill, Charles Dana, Clement Evans, Confederate Veteran, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Edwin Stanton, George G. Meade, In History and Memory, James Longstreet, John Brown Gordon, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Swinton, William T. Sherman
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Into Spangler’s Meadow
As I prepare for our upcoming tour I have been focusing on the Culp’s Hill sector of the Battle of Gettysburg. The actions around Spangler’s Spring and Spangler’s Meadow is an often misunderstood and overlooked piece of the Gettysburg puzzle. … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Upcoming Events
Tagged 12th Corps, 13th New Jersey, 27th Indiana, 49th Virginia, 52nd Virginia, Charles Morse, Charles Mudge, Extra Billy Smith, Gettysburg, Henry Slocum, John Fesler, Jubal Early, Pardee Field, Silas Colgrove, Spangler's Spring, Sprangler's Meadow, Thomas Ruger
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“Extra Billy”
As Chris Mackowski and I forge ahead with our current book project, we happen upon some interesting facts, stories, and personalities. As I worked most of Sunday researching and writing, I happened upon one of those great personalities of the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged 49th Virginia, Extra Billy Smith, John Letcher, Jubal Early, William Smith
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Battlefield? What Battlefield?
For those of you that have been to the Washington DC area, you know that urban sprawl is everywhere. DC has grown outward on all points of the compass. In the path of the sprawl are small towns, beautiful farmland, … Continue reading
Race and Reunion 10 Years Later: The PR Battles for Public Opinion and Memory
Part three in a series As a communications professor and former public relations guy, it’s hard for me to look at memory studies as anything but public relations cases. After all, public memory starts as public opinion, and public opinion … Continue reading
“If Jackson hadn’t gotten shot”: Why There’s No Point in Refighting Gettysburg
“That old house witnessed the downfall of the Southern Confederacy,” said former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George after visiting the Stonewall Jackson Shrine in 1923. “No doubt the history of America would have to be rewritten has ‘Stonewall’ Jackson … Continue reading
