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2021 Symposium Ticket Sales Closing 1/31
Attention procrastinators! This is your last call! With our thanks for outstanding sales over the past month, we have made the decision to close ticket sales for our 2021 annual symposium, effective 11:59pm on Sunday, January 31. Facing the realities of the ongoing pandemic and out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to […]
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Read more...Question of the Week: 8/12-8/18/19
Here’s a question that, we’re sure, is on the mind of all our readers: Would you like to know more details about the Seventh Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge? Well, you’ve come to the right place….
Read more...A Recap of the Overland Campaign’s 155th
One hundred fifty-five years ago, Ulysses S. Grant sat on the doorstep of Richmond, trying to figure out his next step now that Robert E. Lee had stymied him once again. The Overland Campaign was about to shift into a new phase that would eventually take the armies south of the James River and toward […]
Read more...Hell Itself
“All circumstances seemed to combine to make the scene one of unutterable horror. At times the wind howled before the tree-tops, mingling its moans with the groans of the dying, and heavy branches were cut off by the fire of the artillery, and fell crashing upon the heads of the men, adding a new terror […]
Read more...Writing the Wilderness and Reflecting
It’s 46° in Spotsylvania County, but the morning clouds have marched away and the blue-sky sun makes it feel more like sixty. To the west, another line of gray clouds hangs over the Blue Ridge Mountains like a haze of forest fire smoke. I’m passing through the Wilderness. By habit, I refer to it as […]
Read more...Stonewall on the Mend?
I did some work recently for an essay in our upcoming Fallen Leaders book (part of the Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series). The question, a common variation of an old favorite, was this: What if Stonewall Jackson had returned to the Army of Northern Virginia following his wounding at the battle of Chancellorsville? It’s […]
Read more...“Battlefield Season”
“Battlefield season,” as I refer to early May, is always an especially busy time of year for me. Of the five battlefields I live among, the battles of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania all took place in early and mid-May, with North Anna (another of my favorites, and nearby) taking place immediately thereafter.[1] In the midst […]
Read more...Book Review: A Fire in the Wilderness
A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee By John Reeves Pegasus Books, 2021, $28.95 hardcover Reviewed by Kevin Pawlak Of all the awful places created by the American Civil War, the horrors of the Wilderness rank high. The intense fighting between the war’s two best remembered […]
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