Posts Tagged battlefields
Remembrance Day Weekend 2009 – Gettysburg,PA
The following is a report from Nick Korolev on this year’s Gettysburg Remembrance Day:
Remembrance Day in Gettysburg, PA gives all reenactors and living historians
a time and place to gather to officially honor those who gave their last
full measure for what they believed in. This year the weather could not have
been better with a fall briskness [...]
Bulltown Civil War Reenactment 2009
The weekend of October 10-11 saw the bi-annual reenactment of the battle of the 1863 Battle of Bulltown in Braxton County, WV sponsored by the Stonewall Jackson Reenactment Unit. Despite heavy rains on Friday, There was a decent turnout of reenactors and a goodly number of spectators for the weekend. There was also a quality [...]
NPR: Civil War Buffs Clash Over Proposed Wal-Mart
From today’s All Things Considered on National Public Radio:
Civil War Buffs Clash Over Proposed Wal-Mart
by Ailsa Chang
The Battle of the Wilderness has given way to a battle over a Wal-Mart.
The discount giant wants to build a super store in Orange County, Va., near where a portion of the key 1864 Civil War battle was fought [...]
Battle of Rich Mountain Reenactment 2009
This past weekend, the West Virginia Reenactors Association and Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation held their reenactment of the 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain. For those who have not been to this battlefield, the area is scenic and rugged. The actual fighting occurred at the top of the mountain where the Hart family had a small [...]
Upcoming Event – The Battle of Rich Mountain
The weekend of July 11-12 will once again see the biannual reenactment of the Battle of Rich Mountain near Beverly, WV. In June, 1861, Major General George B. McClellan took command of Union troops in Western Virginia and on the 27th of that month, set out for Randolph County to engage the Confederate forces there. [...]
Battle of Lewisburg
Next weekend, May 15-17, 2009, the Reenactment of the Battle of Lewisburg will be held in that picturesque southern West Virginia town. The reenactment will portray the engagement between Union forces commanded by Colonel George Crook and a larger Confederate force under Brigadier General Henry Heth on May 23, 1862.
Battle of Blakeley, Alabama Reenactment
The following is a dispatch from a correspondent, Hugh Glasgow, regarding the reenactment of the Battle of Blakeley, Alabama. The actual battle took place from April 2-9, 1865 and was, according to Wikipedia, ” the last combined-force battle of the war” (naval and ground forces.) Union Maj. General Edward Canby, commanding the XVII and XIII [...]
WVU Today: WVU Civil War historian lends expertise to battlefield preservation efforts
This was posted on the WVU News and Information Services website today. Thought it might be of interest. This is the same professor we posted an AP story about last week.
WVU Civil War historian lends expertise to battlefield preservation efforts
Carmichael to speak Tuesday on war’s military tactics at New York exhibition
A West Virginia University history [...]
Civil War Bus Trip by Mark Tennant
CIVIL WAR BUS TRIP
On Saturday Oct. 25, 2008 I went on a bus trip sponsored by the Mason-Dixon Civil War Roundtable to visit some Civil War sites in the eastern panhandle of W. Va.. Jim Barnes had signed up to go on this trip with me but had to [...]
Organizations Fight to Save State’s Civil War Battlefields [The State Journal]
Some of West Virginia’s Civil War battlefields are scenes of new fighting.
For the past four years, a group of Jefferson County residents has been fighting to save an historic battlefield there, said Edward Dunleavy, president of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association Inc.
“It’s been difficult for the past four years,” he said. “(A developer) bought a [...]
Battle of Point Pleasant Boosts Mason County Tourism [The State Journal]
One community in the state is busy promoting a battle that took place there during the Revolutionary War era.
POINT PLEASANT — Not all heritage tourism in West Virginia revolves around the Civil War.
One community in the state is busy promoting a battle that took place there during the Revolutionary War era. Point Pleasant observes [...]