From Henry Hill, there’s been a Southern perspective for 150 years at Manassas National Battlefield Park. Even on weekends, Interstate 66 west of Washington, D.C., can choke up with traffic. One minute you’re thinking it would be nice to live out here, away from the capital, where there’s grass and trees and a lot less …
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Armed women took to the streets to protest against Confederate injustice. On the morning of March 18, 1863, about 20 women, headed by a tall woman with a determined look, began moving through the downtown streets of Atlanta. They stopped in front of a store, and the tall woman queried the merchant pointedly about the …
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Eric A. Campbell began working for the National Park Service at Gettysburg in 1987. Known for his interpretive skills, Campell added to his luster with his book “A Grand Terrible Dramma”: From Gettysburg to Petersburg: The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed (2000). Eric left Gettysburg in 2009 for Virginia, to develop programming and …
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In the Eye of the Beholder We knew full well when we commissioned a story about the “best and worst” monuments at Gettysburg that we were opening up a can of worms (see P.42). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say, and it’s very unlikely everyone will agree with author Kim …
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On the morning of October 8, 1862, Union Major General Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio faced east across rolling terrain toward Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s Army of the Mississippi northwest of Perryville in Boyle County, Kentucky. Between the lines of Major General Alexander McCook’s I Corps of Buell’s army and Major General William …
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Two dramatic scenes stand out in James Longstreet’s Confederate career. The first occurred on the evening of September 17, 1862, after a day of ghastly combat at Antietam that almost shattered the Army of Northern Virginia. Upon seeing Longstreet, General Robert E. Lee, who earlier had described his senior lieutenant as “the staff in my …
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Flora Stuart’s Battle Flag Finds a New Home The battle flag that Flora Stuart, J.E.B. Stuart’s wife, sewed for her husband is headed for permanent display at the Texas Civil War Museum in Forth Worth after being held in the Stuart family for generations. General Stuart displayed the banner proudly in his camps. An unfortunate …
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