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Heaven Shines on Home Field Advantage
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Monuments, Photography
Tagged Chickamauga, Georgia, monuments, Photography
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History in your Backyard!
Last semester I was driving along an unfamiliar road near Morgantown, on my way to a local historical site, Depression-era Arthurdale, that I am working on a project with when I saw it. As a Civil War historian who happens … Continue reading
Update on the 4th New York Artillery
One of my first posts here at the Emerging Civil War Blog was about damage done to the 4th New York Light Artillery Monument near Devil’s Den on the Gettysburg Battlefield. On a visit this fall I was happy to … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Photography, Preservation
Tagged 4th New York Artillery, Battle of Gettysburg, damaged monument, Devil's Den, Gettysburg National Battlefield, linkedin, monuments, restoration
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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
Mercy
For more on the Kirkland Story, see my previous post See more photography from Kathleen Logothetis
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Photography, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Battle of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Kirkland Monument, linkedin, Logothetis-Photos, monuments, Photography, Richard Kirkland
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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
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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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Antietam National Cemetery
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Leaping from the Past into the Present
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A Story of Heroism….And Coffee
Perhaps the most prominent of the monuments around Burnside’s Bridge at Antietam is not to a regiment who fought there, or indeed any fighting at all. It is a monument to coffee. Well, that and future president William McKinley. McKinley … Continue reading
