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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
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Preservation
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: 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
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Memory, National Park Service, Preservation
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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Telling History vs. Making Art: “Frankly, my dear….”
Part three in a series As the horn section carries Max Steiner’s score from its overture into the sweeping, now-iconic strings of its main theme, Gone With the Wind opens with haggard-looking slaves returning from a hard day’s work set … Continue reading
Telling History vs. Making Art: The ways we remember the war
Part two in a series “We may say that only at the moment when Lee handed Grant his sword was the Confederacy born,” wrote Robert Penn Warren during the Civil War’s centennial; “or to state matters another way, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, Personalities, Slavery
Tagged Albert Sydney Johnston, David Blight, David O. Selznick, Emancipation Cause, Gary Gallagher, Gone with the Wind, History-vs-Art, Ken Burns, Lost Cause, Reconciliation Cause, Robert E. Lee, Robert Penn Warren, Shiloh, slavery, states' rights, Stonewall Jackson, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Union Cause
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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 3
Part three in a series. With the end of the war came demobilization and reconstruction of the country socially and politically. In victory, the western armies had put together a stellar fighting record, and they were the backbone of the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Western Theater
Tagged Albert Sidney Johnston, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Fort Donelson, Geroge McClellan, Gettysburg, Jefferson Davis, Lost Cause, Phil Sheridan, Shiloh, Stones River, The Seven Days Battles, Ulysses S. Grant, William Loring, William T. Sherman
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“If Jackson hadn’t gotten shot”: Facing the Counterfactual Specter of Stonewall Jackson’s Wounding
Imagine a grave tone of voice, a rueful shake of the head: “Oh, if Jackson hadn’t gotten shot….” Sometimes, the phrase gets stated in the form of certainty: “If Jackson hadn’t gotten shot…” or even, “If Jackson had lived….” The … Continue reading
