Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A Damp and Desolate Place: The Confederate Cemetery at Brice's Crossroads.

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The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads was fought June 10, 1864 where four roads intersect about 7 miles west of Baldwyn, Mississippi.  An estimat...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Richard Rowland Kirkland: "The Angel of Marye's Heights"

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This monument sculpted by Felix de Weldon, and erected in 1965 by the State of South Carolina, the Commonwealth of Virginia,  Citizens of ...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Remembering Those Who Fought for the Blue & the Gray on St. Patrick's Day

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There were over 150,000  Irish born soldiers in the Union Army during the civil war with one-third of that total having come from New York S...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Model 1857-Light Twelve Pounders: A Fitting Tribute to Battery B, 4th US Artillery

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Monuments on civil war battlefields come in all shapes and sizes, from grand equestrian statues to small, unobtrusive markers in out of the...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Ninth New York (Hawkin's Zouaves) Volunteer Infantry Monument - Antietam

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The Ninth New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, known as Hawkin's Zouaves in honor of Colonel Rush C. Hawkins was organized in New York ...
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Friday, March 4, 2011

The 104th New York Volunteer Infantry Monument at Antietam: In Need of Repairs

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The 104th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a consolidation of the Morgan Guards and the Geneseo, Regiment, Wadsworth Guards, was recrui...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Color Sergeant George A. Simpson & the 125 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Antietam

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 The 125 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was recruited in Blair, Huntingdon and Cambria Counties in response to President Lincoln’s call for...