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Congratulations to Chris Mackowski
Congratulations to author Chris Mackowski. Chris has been named Historian-in-Residence at Stevenson Ridge. Stevenson Ridge is located on the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, and will host the First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, in August. (Click here for a quick overview or jump past the page break for full details).
Read more...Review: Searching for George Gordon Meade by Tom Huntington
Guest post by Ryan Quint On December 7, 1863, Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade wrote a letter to his wife from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. He spent most of his letter complaining of a lack of recognition from Washington for his prior services and finished his letter with, “I suppose after […]
Read more...“I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier.”
Another installment in the series “Tales from the Tombstone” Unfortunately, the Confederate officer who made the statement in the title died shortly after making it, pierced by seven bullets when leading a counterattack at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864. The officer’s name? Abner Monroe Perrin, South Carolinian by birth, hailed from […]
Read more...“I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day…”—Repost
The following is a post that originally ran on December 13, 2011: The Christmas carol “I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day” was originally a poem. Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, it was arranged and set to music by John Calkin, who took it upon himself to edit out two stanzas which refer directly to […]
Read more...The Secret Life of Walter Taylor
Guest post by William Floyd, Jr. On May 2, 1861, Walter Herron Taylor received a telegram from Virginia Governor John Letcher (1860-1864), instructing him to report for military service in Richmond. Upon arriving in Richmond, he was assigned to headquarters of the Army of Virginia, of which Robert E. Lee was in command. At the […]
Read more...Lookout Mountain
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Lookout Mountain—”The Battle Above the Clouds,” as it later became known because the morning fog and the smoke of battle that hung cloud-like midway up the mountain while the mountaintop loomed above. “The battle of Lookout Mountain is one of the romances of the war,” Union […]
Read more...From the Stone Wall to a Shad Bake
This is another post in the series “Tales From the Tombstone.” George Edward Pickett was ecstatic on the morning of July 3, 1863. His division, which had missed the fighting at Chancellorsville in May and had been way in the rear during the first two days at Gettysburg, was about to lead the decisive charge on […]
Read more...Stones in the Road: “The Situation Was Not Promising”
Part four in a series. Early on the morning of September 22, 1863 Phil Sheridan’s division limped into Chattanooga. Their defeat only two days before along the banks of Chickamauga Creek was wearing heavy on the men as they took their assigned places in the city’s entrenchments. Sheridan remembered “The enemy, having now somewhat recovered […]
Read more...Cut Them Some Slack: It’s not the rangers’ fault they have to turn visitors away
The Friday afternoon drizzle that started midway through Pennsylvania turned to a steady rainfall by the time I hit Maryland. Across the Mason-Dixon line and across the Potomac, the rain continued to fall. Autumn should have been in full blaze around me, but the rain dampened the colors the same way it dampened my spirits. […]
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