"Spirit Triumphant"
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The "Spirit Triumphant" hovers over a fallen Louisiana soldier...
Read MoreThe Importance of an "Angel": Kirkland at Fredericksburg
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Fredericksburg is a largely unmonumented battlefield. The most prominent monument on the southern end of the field is the “Meade pyramid” largely inaccessible to most visitors; besides that the remains of earthworks stand as a testament to what once occurred there ornamented by a few cannon the park service has placed to represent their use. There are a few small monuments scattered through the town and up to the heights which mocked the efforts of Union soldiers in 1862. The only large monuments to a body of troops, like those you would expect to see at Gettysburg or Antietam, stand in the National Cemetery, and there are only three of them. But there is one monument so large and prominent that is captures the attention of every visitor who walks down the Sunken Road, and that is the monument to Richard Kirkland.
Read MoreA Different Side of Stuart
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Despite JEB Stuart's mixed reputation, he has a prominent monument on Monument Avenue...
Read MorePassage Through Time
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This series of doors at Fort Macon in North Carolina looks almost as if passing through them would bring you back...
Read MoreA Story of Heroism….And Coffee
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Perhaps the most prominent of the monuments around Burnside’s Bridge at Antietam is not to a regiment who fought there, or indeed any fighting at all. It is a monument to coffee. Well, that and future president William McKinley.
Read MoreDusk at Fairview
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The sun sets behind the silent cannons at Fairview on the battlefield at Chancellorsville.
Read MoreTwilight over Barlow's Knoll
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Twilight falls over Barlow's Knoll at Gettysburg, putting the statue of Brigadier General Francis Barlow in stark relief to the dimming sunset...
Read MoreUnited in Death
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Casualties of the Battle of Appomattox Court House are buried in a small Confederate cemetery just outside the town.
Read MoreHoping for Freedom
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Dred and Harriet Scott hold hands in front of the St. Louis courthouse where they first sued for their freedom, and look forever through the famous St. Louis Arch. While the arch specifically relates to the Louis and Clark expedition and westward expansion, it also represents for many the American Dream...
Read MoreStorm Clouds Gather
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Storm clouds hover over the infamous cupola at Gettysburg's Lutheran Seminary.
Read MoreTo Bind Up the Nation's Wounds
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This statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sits at the Tredegar Iron Works to commemorate Lincoln's April 4, 1865 visit to Richmond just two days after its fall to Union troops...
Read MoreA View of Dunker Church
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Peace and War: The famous Dunker Church at Antietam is seen through a cannon stationed on the field.