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Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part four)
(part four in a series) I’ve been tracking Alfred Waud across the Spotsylvania battlefield, trying to figure out why one of his sketches, “Advance on Spotsylvania,” bears the date “May 9” although it depicts events from May 10. The first three posts have laid out the breadcrumbs that led me to the conclusion that the […]
Read more...Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part three)
(part three in a series) I’ve come to believe Alfred Waud’s sketch “Advance on Spotsylvania,” dated May 9, is actually mis-dated. In the first two posts of this series, I’ve tried to lay out some of the breadcrumbs that led me to this conclusion. Today, let’s follow some of those breadcrumbs across the battlefield. We […]
Read more...Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part two)
(part two of a series) When Alfred Waud finally arrived on the Spotsylvania battlefield’s eastern front, he produced a sketch showing the Federal IX Corps on the outskirts of the village. Spotsylvania-based historian John Cummings has convincingly placed the location of the sketch. You can read John’s work on that here. Waud dated the sketch […]
Read more...Alfred Waud’s Sketchy Spotsylvania (part one)
(part one in a series) In my capacity as historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge on the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield, I recently did some work to pin down the approximate location where IX Corps division commander Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely Stevenson was killed on the morning of May 10, 1863. Part of that work has hinged […]
Read more...Week In Review: September 13-19, 2021
Monday, September 13: Question of the Week had a Maryland Campaign theme. Kevin Pawlak wrote about the unlucky lost order. Chris Mackowski posted a collection of blog posts related to the discovery of Special Orders 191.
Read more...Week In Review: September 6-12, 2021
Statues, historic sketches, sunsets, historic cemeteries, hiking adventures, historic orders and letter, and more from this past week on the Emerging Civil War blog… Monday, September 6: Question of the Week focused on those who did not write memoirs. Guy Hasegawa shared some writing advice from his experience preparing Matchless Organization, the newest book in […]
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