Chris Mackowski talked about the May 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, which pitted Ulysses S. Grant and his Union forces against Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Spotsylvania Tree Stump, May 1864: This shattered, bullet-riddled stump was all that remained of an oak tree felled by rifle fire. (Photo courtesy of Hugh Talman, Smithsonian National Museum of ...

One hundred sixty years ago, at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Ulysses S. Grant was looking for some kind of breakthrough against the lines of Robert E. Lee.

U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger has announced one federal grant of $96,545 to protect 14 acres of the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield.

New Perspectives on Spotsylvania. Editor-in-chief and co-founder of Emerging Civil War, Prof. Mackowski (Saint Bonaventure), the author of Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S.

Until May 12, 1864, this shattered stump was a large oak tree in a rolling meadow just outside Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. That morning, entrenched Confederates, the front line of Gen. Robert ...

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House Chris Mackowski talked about the May 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, which pitted Ulysses S. Grant and his Unio… August 6, 2016 ...

The Washington Star of last evening says: A messenger got in last night from the army who left Spotsylvania Court House yesterday at twelve o’clock, and came on horseback to Aquia Creek, and ...