Tag Archives: Confederate cemetery

ECW Weekender: Confederate Cemetery at Spotsylvania Court House (In The Snow)

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Fallen Union soldiers from the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House were eventually laid to rest in Fredericksburg National Cemetery. But what happened to the Confederate graves? Many of the Confederate dead were disinterred and reburied … Continue reading →

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The Army of Tennessee: Elegy at Franklin (Part 2)

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Robert Lee Hodge

On November 30th, 2019 I marched off from Winstead Hill at 4pm—the same time the Army of Tennessee stepped off in 1864. Unlike other years the police changed the march-time for “safety reasons” to 2pm—I am not sure what that … Continue reading →

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They Fell On The Fields Of Antietam

Posted on September 28, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes back Kristen M. Pawlak (Trout) On the fields to the east of the small western-Maryland hamlet of Sharpsburg and interposed between the Potomac River and Antietam Creek, just under four thousand Federal and Rebel troops lay … Continue reading →

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