Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Holding the Union Left Flank: The 20th Maine at Gettysburg

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The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was recruited in Piscataquis, Penobscot, Lincoln and Knox Counties in Maine in August 1862 in res...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Hancock at Gettysburg: He was superb here too.

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Although Winfield Scott Hancock earned the sobriquet "Hancock the Superb" following the May 5, 1862 Battle of Williamsburg it was ...
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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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