To magazine authors articles on the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. He book a season of slaughter he and i authored on the battle of spotsylvania courthouse and those are available through the emerging civil war website. Chris and i have known each other for 11 years. As i told you last night, we are like john and paul, we fight a little bit, we get along, but we are best friends. I was at his wedding, his reception right here and he met his wife where the projector is set up. Thats the gods honest truth. What one of our friends described as the Rupert Murdoch civil war publishing because hes now becoming a very prolific author. He is going to talk about the battle for the spotsylvania courthouse, particularly the mule shoes and bloody angle. Its my pleasure to introduce to you my friend and coauthor, chris michalski. [applause] firstave to say the symposium i spoke at here, i was whereng and jennifer is Matt Atkinson is, no offense, you are a step down. [laughter] hes really good.
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne