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Wilderness and Ward and Ulysses S. Grant
At the end of April 1885, Ulysses S. Grant knew he was dying. In fact, he had almost died earlier that month. Throat cancer ravaged him, and in late March, his condition collapsed so severely that it nearly killed him. Only extraordinary measures by his doctors revived him. “The truth is,” one of Grant’s close […]
Read more...From the Wilderness, the Blue Ridge in the Distance
Just beyond its cross-the-T intersection with Brock Road, Route 3 west begins a gentle mile-long descent toward Wilderness Run. There, it crosses the creek and then jumps the border between Spotsylvania and Orange counties before pushing upward and westward again. On its downward slope, the road passes out of a stand of trees, past a […]
Read more...Forgotten Casualty: James Longstreet Wounded in the Wilderness: Part Two
Authored by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White: Click here to read part one in this series. “In the shaded light of the dense tangle, a shot or two went off, then more, and finally a strong fusillade,” said Sorrel, who was riding next to Longstreet. Hardly had the sound of cheering died away from […]
Read more...Ready to Ride into the Wilderness
Horses enjoy a moment of rest in the Confederate cavalry camp before the kick-off of Wilderness Sesquicentennial events.
Read more...“The” Turning Point of the War: The Wilderness, not Gettysburg
I was working at the Wilderness today, and I couldn’t think of a better place to be sitting in the wake of the Gettysburg sesquicentennial. Why? Well, while throngs of people stare at the bronze tablet by the copse of trees along Gettysburg’s Cemetery Ridge, I’m hanging out on the battlefield where the war’s most […]
Read more...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 the strange tale of Stonewall Jackson’s amputated arm. After Jackson was accidentally shot by his […]
Read more...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 idea of “wilderness” suggests a place and a time of being directionless and lost. One […]
Read more...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 retailer made a dramatic 180 and gave up its effort to build on a 51-acre […]
Read more...The fury of Wilderness…the thunders of Gettysburg
Near the Adams Farm, Richmond National Battlefield. When the Union Second Corps attacked near this position on the morning of June 3, 1864, a member of the 10 Massachusetts Light said, “It had the fury of the Wilderness musketry, with the thunders of the Gettysburg artillery superadded. It was simply terrific.” (from Rhea, Cold Harbor, […]
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