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Repatriating Court Documents Stolen from Stafford Courthouse, Virginia, by Union Troops in 1862
Guest post by George H. Bresnick, director of the H. Stanley Bresnick Foundation The countryside around Stafford, Virginia, was devastated by the occupation forces of the Union Army in November, 1862. So severe was the physical damage and the loss of population that it is said that the land and the populace around the township of Stafford […]
Read more...No NPS? No Problem!—North Anna Battlefield Park
Day Four in a series coinciding with the federal government shutdown Oft-overlooked, in the history books and by battlefielders, is the North Anna battlefield—scene of one of the biggest Civil War battles that never happened. It wasn’t for a lack of trying, though. Ulysses S. Grant, punch-drunk exhausted from the grueling pace he’d set for his army, […]
Read more...Hurricane from the Heavens
Hurricane from the Heavens: The Battle of Cold Harbor, May 26-June 5, 1864 by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt Savas Beatie, 2014 192 pp.; 12 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-187-0 Click here to order * * * “Lee’s army is really whipped,” Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed. May 1864 had […]
Read more...A General Fallen from Grace: Lew Wallace before Monocacy
A guest post by Ryan Quint. Part one in a series. Musketry crackled in the distance, heavy cannonading made the ground rumble, hundreds of men died up ahead, and Major General Lew Wallace was on the wrong road. Wallace and his Third Division had been ordered by Ulysses S. Grant to reinforce his battered army […]
Read more...Gettysburg Recap
The 150th anniversary of Gettysburg brought a flurry of posts to the Emerging Civil War blog. Over the last two weeks, our authors have offered many different perspectives on the battle, its consequences, and its significance. We’ll have more coverage to come this week, but here is a recap in case you missed any of […]
Read more...My Life as a Black Civil War Living Historian—conclusion
final part in a series Going forward, I know that I have two more years of many events to go before the end of the Sesquicentennial. I have two main objectives that I want to accomplish:
Read more...A Nature Trail Through a History Park
Although I’ve done a fair amount of hiking in the past few months, I haven’t had my hiking shoes out of their box since I wore them to Uganda back in January. Flecks of Uganda’s rust-colored clay still line the crevices of the shoes’ treads. The shoebox I pull them from says “Keen,” a reminder […]
Read more...My Life as a Black Civil War Living Historian—part two
Part two in a series As a Park Service historian, I give tours on all four of the Park’s battlefields: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. I loved talking about the military history but never said much about the civilians until I started to work with the Chief Historian of the park, John Hennessy. […]
Read more...My Life as a Black Civil War Living Historian—part one
part one in a series As a young boy, I was always been fascinated by military history. I had toy soldiers of all kinds: Civil War, World War II, Revolutionary War, and even the Knights of the Round Table. I used to buy the toy soldiers from the Marvel Comic books that I read as […]
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