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Shaping Chancellorsville: Establishing the park
part four in a series After the Chancellorsville Battlefield Association fizzled, a second effort to establish a battlefield park got underway in the area in 1898, sparked first by the Fredericksburg City Council, joined later by the Virginia state legislature. Their promotional literature cited Fredericksburg as “the gateway of the Confederacy” and that “through its […]
Read more...Shaping Chancellorsville: Pre-park preservation efforts
part three in a series While the Jackson Monument represents the first effort to set aside property at Chancellorsville, efforts were soon underway to preserve far more of the battlefield. By 1891, a group of northern and southern veterans formed the Chancellorsville Battlefield Association (CBA) “to acquire and hold for posterity the most important points […]
Read more...Shaping Chancellorsville: How memories of the battle shaped the battlefield
part one in a series It has become the stuff of legends: Astride his horse, Traveller, Robert. E. Lee rides into the Chancellorsville clearing, the mansion in flames behind him, his men gathered ‘round with hats off, cheering wildly. It’s late morning, May 3, 1863, and the Army of Northern Virginia has overcome odds of […]
Read more...Sacred Scars, Shadowed Ground: Civil War battlefields photographed by Larry Stuart
Last February, we told you about a photography exhibit by fine art photographer Larry Stuart, who took some stunning photos of the Fredericksburg-area battlefields. Beginning this weekend, Larry’s photos will again be on display, this time at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York. In conjunction with the exhibit, ECW’s Chris Mackowski will present a […]
Read more...A Season of Slaughter
“One thing is certain of this campaign thus far, and that is that more blood has been shed, more lives lost, and more human suffering undergone, than ever before in a season.” — Dr. Daniel Holt, 121st New York Infantry A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 8-21, 1864 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White Savas […]
Read more...Simply Murder
“What a bloody, one-sided battle this was. It was simply murder . . . . We can see when we have a chance; here we had none.” — Union soldier Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White Savas Beatie, 2012 192 pp.; 6 maps, 205 pictures ISBN: 978-1-61121-146-7 […]
Read more...Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: Part Five
Part five in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, thus some of the “current research” in the paper is no longer exactly current. ************** […]
Read more...Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: Part Three
Part three in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, thus some of the “current research” in the paper is no longer exactly current. ************ […]
Read more...CVBT preserves the site where Jackson’s arm was amputated
From our friends at the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust comes word that they’ve preserved another important track associated with the battle of Chancellorsville: the site of the Wilderness field hospital where surgeons removed Stonewall Jackson’s arm following Jackson’s accidental wounding during the battle on May 2, 1863. Here are the details, straight from CVBT:
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