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Under Fire: The Regiment & The Youth
Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage has been recognized for it’s descriptions of battle and human responses. While working on this new series, I wanted to look at the chapters where the regiment and Henry Fleming (the main character) first come under fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville. A shell screaming like a storm […]
Read more...The Four-Legged Veteran of 18 Battles
The Library of Congress online archive has this photographic treasure: And here’s a transcription of the photo’s description printed on the back of the image:
Read more...Registration Closes Soon for the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust’s Conference
As Executive Director of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT), I’d like to extend a personal invitation to our 25th Anniversary Conference, October 8-10, 2021. (Registration closing on October 1!) We are celebrating our past 25 years of preserving land at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House and looking to the future, adding […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Donald C. Pfanz Receives The Ralph Happel Award From Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
(Original Press Release from Central Virginia Battlefields Trust) Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) has selected Donald C. Pfanz as the recipient of its Ralph Happel Lifetime Achievement Award in Civil War Preservation. In 1987, while working as a historian at Petersburg National Battlefield, Pfanz wrote a letter to several colleagues expressing concern over the destruction […]
Read more...A Few Thoughts On Interpretation
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Texas. It was such a stunning and moving experience that I’ve been using it as a lens to think about other areas of historical interpretation. The museum presented history and artifacts (like most museums), but it successfully took another step […]
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 […]
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...Sunset at Cville
I had to do a short video for one of my classes at the Chancellorsville intersection on Monday evening, and I was out there as the sun was making its final descent to the horizon. I thought I’d share:
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