Friday, October 19, 2012
Return to Chancellorsville
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We have just returned from a trip to the Chancellorsville battlefield where we again retraced the steps of my ancestor as he survived the flank attack of Stonewall Jackson. Above is a view of the Hawkins farm area where the 82nd Ohio was stationed and awaited the onslaught that pushed the regiment back to the Chancellor house area.
After surviving long marches, low morale, and horrific battles, the Confederates swarm over his regiment at Gettysburg on the first day of the great battle. Now a prisoner, he faces a grueling death march south with a defeated, angry Rebel army. Worse, a grinding, lice-ridden death by starvation awaits him at Richmond's Belle Island and later, the infamous Andersonville. How did he survive? http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001HPJGH0 maxt@tabor.edu
