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Sep 23, 20213 min read
At Ease: Where Did You Get That Ice in 1864?
Ice House Ruins at Spotsylvania Ice houses? What are they and were they a thing during the Civil War era? Yes! Residences in...
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Sep 16, 20212 min read
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust Joins Coalition, Advocating for The Wilderness Battlefield
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) has joined a coalition with other historic preservation and environmental groups to raise...
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Sep 14, 20212 min read
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust selects Donald C. Pfanz as the recipient Ralph Happel Award
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) has selected Donald C. Pfanz as the recipient of its Ralph Happel Lifetime Achievement Award...
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Sep 9, 20214 min read
At Ease: Skirts, Uniforms, and Pontoon Bridges
Women Who Crossed the Pontoon Bridges at Fredericksburg Looking at the Rappahannock River and the pontoon bridge replicas one day, we...
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Aug 31, 20214 min read
Where Is That Place?
Mapping Battlefields Earlier in August, we posted some historic maps of the Central Virginia Battlefields on CVBT's social media and...
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Aug 26, 20214 min read
At Ease: What Happened at Nine Mile Run?
The Fight at Chancellorsville's Nine Mile Run Nine Mile Run is located...nine miles from historic Fredericksburg. Here, during the Battle...
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Aug 12, 20214 min read
At Ease: Historic Brock Road
Brock Road Brock Road is directly connected to three of the four battlefields we focus on: Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and...
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Jul 28, 20213 min read
First Battlefields
First Battlefields n July 1861—one hundred and sixty years ago this month—the first major battle of the Civil War was fought along the...
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Jul 22, 20213 min read
At Ease: A Tavern at the Crossroads
Wilderness Tavern Where was it? Is any part of it preserved? These are questions we commonly hear in connection to the Wilderness Tavern,...
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Jul 8, 20213 min read
At Ease: From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg
Fredericksburg vs. Gettysburg The armies started the Pennsylvania Campaign of 1863 from the Central Virginia area, and some actually...
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Jul 1, 20214 min read
Independence Day - 1861 Style
Fourth of July in 1861 This year marks the beginning of the 160th Anniversary of the Civil War. What were soldiers and civilians doing on...
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Jun 24, 20213 min read
At Ease: Gunboats on the River?
Gunboats on the Rappahannock The Rappahannock River in Central Virginia is not a location typically associated with naval warfare in...
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Jun 10, 20213 min read
At Ease: Illustrating the War with Pencil & Paper
Alfred Waud's Civil War Illustrations Landscape photos of the battlefields can be helpful for identifying details and establishing the...
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May 27, 20214 min read
At Ease: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps
Burying The Fallen Soldiers As Memorial Day weekend approaches on the calendar, we've been doing some research and pulling sources...
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May 13, 20214 min read
At Ease: Attacking Myer's Hill & Harris Farm
The Second Week at Spotsylvania What happened after the assault on the Mule Shoe Salient and the horrific fighting at the Bloody Angle...
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May 11, 20212 min read
Spotsylvania: 157 Years Ago
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (157th Anniversary) On May 8-21, 1864, intense fighting raged around Spotsylvania Court House. The...
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May 5, 20212 min read
The Wilderness: 157 Years Ago
Battle of The Wilderness - 157th Anniversary On May 5-6, Union and Confederate divisions clashed in the clearings and dense forests of...
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May 1, 20212 min read
Chancellorsville: 158 Years Ago
Battle of Chancellorsville - 158th Anniversary May 1-4, 1863 were "fighting days" during the Chancellorsville Campaign with troops...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
At Ease: Just Before the Overland Campaign
Before The Battles Began We're just days away from the anniversaries of the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Overland Campaign. Today,...
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Apr 20, 20214 min read
The Road to War in Virginia
Going To War In Virginia This month—April 1861—marks the 160th Anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. While most of the...
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