Civil War Trails Director Mitch Bowman shares a bit of history and why the Civil War is still as relevant as ever.
Encyclopedia Virginia: The Blog
- The Crater on PBSThe Battle of the Crater will be examined on a PBS series: The tunnel that Union soldiers dug to blow a crater under Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Va., is not usually juxtaposed with, say, the Great Wall of China. But the Battle of the Crater makes the cut in the new PBS series “Ground War,” [...] […]brendanwolfe
Civil War History
- Review of So You Think You Know Gettysburg?Gindlesperger, James and Suzanne. So You Think You Know Gettysburg?: The Stories Behind the Monuments and the Men Who Fought One of America’s Most Epic Battles. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Publisher, 2010. This book is an interesting take at the park where the bloodiest battle on American soil occurred. While other books focus on [...] […]Daniel Sauerwein
As a writer of Civil War history (America’s Civil War, Civil War News, etc.), and having met Mitch Bowman at a reenactment some years ago in Virginia, I am requesting information for possible placement of Martinsville on the Va Civil War Trails. (Gen. Stoneman captured the town in the closing months of the war and a 300-man detachment of Gen. Wheeler’s calvary had a skirmish here. There is a historical marker at the Historic old Courthouse noting Stoneman’s troopers presence before he moved on to Danbury, NC to begin his “Last Raid” through that state. Danbury has one NC Civil War Trails designated site with another just approved by county government.
Thanks for any information on designating Martinsville a Va Civil War Trails site.
Joan Wenner, J.D.