from Chris
The anniversary of the battle of Spotsylvania is this week. The battle opened on May 8, 1864, along the Brock Road. Today, the entrance to the national battlefield sits in the area where the battle opened.
A day later, May 9, 18634, the battle came to the area today known as Stevenson Ridge. Union infantry stormed across the Ny River and swept up the hill, making it almost into the Court House itself before stout Confederate resistance stopped …
Traces of the Bloody Struggle: The Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania Court House by Chris Mackowski is now available digitally through Amazon.com, courtesy of Savas Beatie, LLC.
The book recounts the action on the eastern front during the May 1864 battle. (Click here for more about the book.)
Hard copies of the book are available only through Stevenson Ridge: $10 plus shipping. For ordering info, contact info@stevensonridge.com.…
We received a note this week from a guest who came to Stevenson Ridge earlier this summer to explore the area’s Civil War history. We ended up as the first person to purchase a copy of our new book, Traces of the Bloody Struggle: The Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania Court House by our historian-in-residence, Chris Mackowski. We pass along the note with the guest’s permission:
I received my copy of Traces of the Bloody Struggle and read it …
We’re gearing up for the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge this weekend. We have a capacity crowd coming this year–so many folks we had to move part of the event from the Riddick House to the Lodge.
Things kick off tonight at 5:00 with registration, and a talk at 5:30 by historian Dave Powell, who’ll offer an overview of infantry tactics. That’ll set the table for a full discussion over the weekend of “Great Attacks of …
from Chris
In my capacity as the historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, one of my projects this summer has been to compile some information about the property’s role during the Civil War. Many of our guests are interested in the Civil War, and they stay here because we’re smack-dab in the middle of central Virginia’s Civil War landscape, right on the Spotsylvania battlefield. The array of earthworks and fortifications on the property are amazing. One NPS historian called them the best-preserved …