Question of the Week: 2/5-2/11 2024–Bloody Landscape

I’ve heard the remark that “Every battlefield has a cornfield. Every battle has famous farmhouse.” (I suspect the folks who lived in any of those farmhouses wish things had stayed un-famous.) That brought to mind, for me, how many landscape features have the word “bloody” in them. I did a survey of my ECW colleagues to compile this quick list. What others can you add?

  • Bloody Hill at Wilson’s Creek (Aug. 10, 1861)
  • Bloody Pond at Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862)
  • Bloody Ravine at Williamsburg (May 5, 1862)
  • Bloody Lane at Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862)
  • Bloody Run at Gettysburg (July 2, 1863)
  • Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania (May 12, 1864)
  • Bloody Cedars at New Market (May 15, 1864)
  • Bloody Run at Cold Harbor (June 1, 1864)

My colleague Dave Powell also notes there is/was a Bloody Pond at Chickamauga (Sept. 18-20, 1863), though it has since disappeared.

Thure de Thulstrup’s depiction of the first assault on the Bloody Angle, May 12, 1864.


3 Responses to Question of the Week: 2/5-2/11 2024–Bloody Landscape

  1. The British immigrints who fought for both sides in the Civil War commonly used the adjective “bloody”

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