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.
Wasn’t Pea Ridge also called “Bloody Ridge”?
There is a terrific book on Quantrill’s raid of Lawrence that is titled “Bloody Dawn.”
The British immigrints who fought for both sides in the Civil War commonly used the adjective “bloody”