The Topography of Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia Last Friday and Saturday, I had the opportunity to give a tour of the Spotsylvania and North Anna River battlefield to a great group from the Central Ohio Civil War...
View ArticleFrom the ECW Archives: The Union Assault at Cold Harbor June 1, 1864
A VI Corps battery in action on June 1, 1864 at Cold Harbor. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. All through the night of May 31 and into June 1, 1864, Horatio Wright’s VI Corps trudged along the...
View ArticleSome December Scenes from Spotsy
The thermometer tried to stay above forty as morning edged toward noon, but winter temperatures had settled onto the Spotsylvania battlefield and proved harder to budge than the Confederate army. I was...
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