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Herdegen’s Rock-Solid Study of the Iron Brigade
I first met the Iron Brigade, like so many Americans, as they marched onto the field on the first day of Gettysburg, their black hats announcing their appearance at the nick of time. Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels (and the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Books & Authors, Common Soldier, Memory
Tagged Gettysburg, Iron Brigade, Lance Herdegen, wilderness
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CVBT preserves the site where Jackson’s arm was amputated
From our friends at the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust comes word that they’ve preserved another important track associated with the battle of Chancellorsville: the site of the Wilderness field hospital where surgeons removed Stonewall Jackson’s arm following Jackson’s accidental wounding … Continue reading
Mystery in the Wilderness: Where is Stonewall’s Arm?
In case you haven’t seen it yet, check out the April 2013 issue of Civil War Times, which asks on its cover, “Where is Stonewall’s Arm?” ECW co-founder Chris Mackowski penned the article, titled “Mystery in the Wilderness,” which chronicles … Continue reading
Review: Wilderness by Lance Weller
No Civil War battlefield offers a writer more metaphoric possibility than the Wilderness. Not only was the Wilderness a virtually impenetrable second-growth forest—“the dark, close wood” and “one of the waste places of nature,” as soldiers called it—but the very … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Books & Authors
Tagged Battle of the Wilderness, Lance Weller, wilderness
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Brock Road Sunrise
Sunrise along the Brock Road Sunday, October 21, 2012
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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Bloody Field, Peaceful Field
On a recent trip to the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania I was again struck by the beauty of the battlefields. Today, not a shadow of the violence, pain, and intensity remains on the fields where so many fell almost 150 … Continue reading
Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, In History and Memory…Part 6
Part six in a series. Dramatic battles and political events also kept the northern eyes of the press and thus the public focused eastward. The Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg for example were dreams for media personnel. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Alexander Gardner, Antietam, Army of the Cumberland, Battle of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost, Emancipation Proclamation, Matthew Brady, Monitor and Merrimac, Shiloh, Signal Corps, Stonewall Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Vicksburg, wilderness, William Swinton
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A Foggy Morning at Ellwood
Ellwood, Wilderness National Battlefield
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Photography
Tagged Ellwood, Photography, wilderness
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Walmart Near the Wilderness—Update
Word out of the Wilderness today about Walmart. For years, the Wilderness was the site of a bitter struggle between developers and preservationists over the proposed construction of a Walmart supercenter—a fight that drew national attention. Earlier this year, the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Preservation
Tagged FSNMP, Walmart, wilderness
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