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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 Preservation, NPS, FSNMP, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Chancellorsville, Memory, Battle of Chancellorsville, National Park Service, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, FRSP, CVC, Jackson Wounding monument
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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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Shaping Chancellorsville: The first memory memorialized on the field
part two in a series The first effort to mark out events on the Chancellorsville Battlefield came as early at 1883, although some accounts suggest it happened as early as 1876. Former members of Stonewall Jackson’s staff placed a large … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Fitzhugh Lee, FRSP, FSNMP, Jackson Rock, Jackson wounding, James Power Smith, John Sedgwick, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson
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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
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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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Pick #5 In the Top Ten: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War/Diary from Dixie, edited by C. Vann Woodward/ Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary.
There is absolutely no doubt that this book, whichever version you choose, should be on every Civil War bookshelf. It is Gone With the Wind writ true, and its cast of “characters” includes just about everybody who was anybody in … Continue reading
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
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Dead Men
I am often accused of preferring dead men to those still living. It may be true. In this season when the veil between the living and the dead is rent in so many places, I especially think of our ghosts. I … Continue reading
Antietam revisited on 9/11
As I wrote last year, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. 17, 1862, have become inextricably linked in my mind. I took the opportunity this morning, in commemoration of the events of 9/11, to stop at Antietam, where … Continue reading
