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Shaping Chancellorsville: The first reenactment and ‘The Last Meeting’
part five in a series In 1933, administration of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park was turned over to the National Park Service, and shortly thereafter, the NPS invited the Civilian Conservation Corps to come in to the park to do restoration and preservation work. Among their projects at Chancellorsville, they installed a visitor […]
Read more...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: The first memory memorialized on the field
part two in a series The first effort to mark out events on the Chancellorsville Battlefield came as early at 1883, although some accounts suggest it happened as early as 1876. Former members of Stonewall Jackson’s staff placed a large quartz boulder along the Orange Plank Road to mark the area where Jackson had been […]
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...Chancellorsville Seminar: May 17-19, 2013
We wanted to remind you that two of our authors are part of this spring’s Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours. Join authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White, along with noted historians Robert K. Krick, Ed Bearss, Frank O’Reilly, and more, as they delve into Lee’s Greatest Victory: The Battle of Chancellorsville. Mackowski and White will lead the session covering the battles of […]
Read more...Chancellorsville: May 17-19, 2013
We at Emerging Civil War are proud to announce that two of our authors are part of this spring’s Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours. Join authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White, along with noted historians Robert K. Krick, Ed Bearss, Frank O’Reilly, and more, as they delve into Lee’s Greatest Victory: The Battle of Chancellorsville. Mackowski and White will lead the session covering […]
Read more...Mapping Out Chancellorsville 149 Years Later
Today marks the 149th anniversary of the opening of the battle of Chancellorsville. Supremely confident “Fighting Joe” Hooker rocked back on his heels after an unexpected punch on the nose by Stonewall Jackson, withdrawing into a defensive position around the Chancellorsville intersection. Giving up the high ground to the east of the intersection was the […]
Read more...Cementing Chancellorsville
One of the projects I’m working on right now entails a closer look at the evolution of the Chancellorsville battlefield over the years. Here’s a photo I pulled from the files as I was working this week. This is the Chancellorsville intersection circa 1975:
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