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To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds
Lincoln visited Richmond after the city fell in April 1865 and lingered hoping Lee would surrender his army quickly. On April 8, he returned to Washington DC. Six days later he was assassinated. Here Lincoln sits with his son, Tad, … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Photography
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Second Inaugural Address, Logothetis-Photos, Photography, Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Tad Lincoln, Tredegar Iron Works
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Voices from a Wartime Christmas
With little commentary or ado, I simply wish to offer you the thoughts, emotions, and memories of Christmas as experienced by some of those mired in the throes of Civil War 150 years ago.
Posted in Civilian, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Holidays, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry, 150th Christmas, 1st North Carolina Infantry, 21st Massachusetts Infantry, 3rd Ohio Infantry, 61st Illinois Infantry, Adam De Gurowski, Christmas, Confederate War Department, Falmouth, Frederick Lyman Hitchcock, James Madison Stone, John Beatty, John Beauchamp Jones, Leander Stillwell, Louis Leon, Louisiana, Richmond, Sarah Morgan, Sarah Morgan Dawson
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Suicide by Union Bullet?: The Cases of A.P. Hill and Richard Garnett
Death is an occupational hazard for the soldier; it is a basic rule of warfare that there will be casualties. Soldiers face death when they enter battle, and accept that they must be willing to die for their country, their … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Personalities
Tagged "suicide by cop", Ambrose Powell Hill, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Kernstown, Boydton Plank Road, C.S. Venable, civil war casualties, Colonel Palmer, Corporal John W. Mauck, cowardice, Five Forks, Garnett Monument, Garnett's court martial, George Pickett, Gettysburg, gonorrhea, Harry Heath, Hollywood Cemetery, James Longstreet, Jenkins, linkedin, Petersburg, Pickett's Charge, Private Daniel Wolford, Richard Garnett, Richmond, Robert Anderson Bright, Robert E. Lee, Sergeant Tucker, Siege of Petersburg, Stonewall Jackson, suicide, Thomas J. Jackson, Turner Ashby, West Point
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Gettysburg Dead at Hollywood Cemetery
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The Reconstruction of Billy Mahone
The descriptions of him are priceless. “He looked the image of a bantam rooster or a gamecock,” recalled a veteran. Perhaps it was his odd dress: “He wore a large sombrero hat, without plume, cocked on one side, and decorated … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Reconstruction
Tagged Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, Battle of the Crater, Billy Mahone, Chancellorsville, Confederate Republicans, Conservatives, Crater, Danville race riot, Democrats, Drewry's Bluff, Fredericksburg, Funders, Hero of the Crater, James Longstreet, Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Peninsula Campaign, Petersburg, Rappahannock Academy, Readjuster Party, Readjusters, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Virginia, Republicans, Richmond, Salem Church, Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Senator William Mahone, Virginia, Virginia debt, Virginia Military Institute, VMI, West Virginia, wilderness, William Mahone
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Monument Avenue: JEB Stuart
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The Civil War Sesquicentennial at the Gates of Richmond
The Civil War 150th arrives at the gates of Richmond later this week. Check out Richmond National Battlefield’s full guide of activities, (available as a free downloadable PDF). Things get started this weekend with the commemoration of the Battle of … Continue reading
Fort Pocahontas
When I stopped at Jamestown, Virginia over the weekend, I expected to find Pocahontas—but to my surprise, I found Fort Pocahontas, too. Just outside the Jamestown colony’s original triangle fort, to the west of the rebuilt palisade, a line of … Continue reading
Clear Fields of Fire
Malvern Hill Richmond National Battlefield Tuesday, March 27, 2012
