Tag Archives: Seven Days Battles

“Life Given, Not Lost”: Captain Morey’s Final Charge: Part One

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

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 →

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The Golden Opportunity at Evelynton Heights

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Exactly one year before the Battle of Gettysburg Confederate James Ewell Brown “JEB” Stuart made possibly an even costlier mistake. He lost Evelynton Heights. Evelynton is the name attributed to both the plantation home of the Ruffin family (the same family … Continue reading →

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A Pennsylvania Blacksmith Goes to War

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Charles R. Bowen found it fitting to include a brief biographical sketch of his father, Levi A. Bowen, in the Biographical Annals of Cumberland County Pennsylvania. Charles was around thirty years of age … Continue reading →

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Clear Fields of Fire

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Malvern Hill Richmond National Battlefield Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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“Such a Prize Within Our Reach…”—Secretary Salazar’s Glendale Announcement

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

“Never, before or after, did the fates put such a prize within our reach,” Confederate memoirist E.P. Alexander wrote of the Battle of Glendale. But for many visitors to Richmond National Battlefield Park, the Glendale battlefield is merely a green … Continue reading →

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Fire Along Boatswain Creek: Reflections on the Battle of Gaines Mill

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

Traveling for an extended Columbus Day weekend vacation, I had the opportunity to make an early-morning stop at the Gaines Mill battlefield. Much to my delight, I found upon arrival that I had the entire battlefield to myself. After reading … Continue reading →

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History in the Making: Interpretive Responsibility and the Teaching of History as Product and Process

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

One of the many topics of the Civil War Sesquicentennial conversation is (or at least should be) how we, as human beings, construct historical memory and how we ourselves become historians (sometimes knowing, other times not) of our collective past. … Continue reading →

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