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Vicksburg Campaign WINTER 2020 H Vol. 21 No. 4 AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST PRESERVE. EDUCATE. INSPIRE. I WWW.BATTLEFIELDS.ORG VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN Preservation Challenges & Opportunities FURY AT THE RAILROAD REDOUBT H REFLECTING ON THE BEARSS LEGACY HALLOWED GROUND Kate Kelly ALUMNI BOARD STAFF Tom Moore Clarissa Borges Wendy Woodford HISTORY AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS MEMBERSHIP Mark Coombs A quarterly publication Los Angeles, California Harrison M. Bains ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT PRINCIPAL PHILANTHROPIC SENIOR ASSOCIATE DESIGN LEAD Garry Adelman Dawn Wisz DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF O. James Lighthizer* Cricket Bauer Ruth Hudspeth ADVISOR FOR STEWARDSHIP Connor Townsend CHIEF HISTORIAN SENIOR ASSOCIATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS of the American Eldorado, Maryland Don Barrett CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Christopher Hackman Meaghan Hogan SENIOR MANAGER, AUDIENCE Kristopher White FOR DONATIONS Paul Coussan Battlefield Trust Jeffrey P. McClanathan Kirk J. Bradley^ Steve Wyngarden DEVELOPMENT MANAGER SENIOR ASSOCIATE FOR PLANNED DEVELOPMENT SENIOR EDUCATION MANAGER Chris Lee SENIOR FEDERAL RELATIONS Winter 2020, St. Petersburg, Florida Paul Bryant^ CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER Molly N. Warren GIVING Matthew George SENIOR ASSOCIATE FOR MANAGER Noah Mehrkam SENIOR DEVELOPMENT EVENTS SENIOR MANAGER FOR MEMBERSHIP AND DONATIONS Mitch Lohr Vol. 21, No. 4 Walter W. Buckley, Jr. Courtney Galuska Washington, D.C. Childs F. Burden EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO MANAGER FOR COLOR BEARERS DIGITAL OPERATIONS Melissa Sadler LAND STEWARDSHIP Mary Stephens STATE AND LOCAL RELATIONS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, USMC Carlton B. Crenshaw THE PRESIDENT & HR MANAGER Amanda Murray Lawrence Swiader DIRECTOR OF EVENTS Andy Poulton SENIOR ASSOCIATE FOR ASSOCIATE Mary Koik (Ret.) Beverly M. DuBose Tanya Roberts SENIOR MANAGER FOR CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER Bonnie Repasi SENIOR VIDEO MEMBERSHIP AND DONATIONS Colleen Cheslak Leesburg, Virginia Bruce Gottwald WASHINGTON OFFICE MANAGER DIRECT MARKETING PRINCIPAL EVENTS COORDINATOR & CONTENT ASSOCIATE Tracey McIntire COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE EDITOR John L. Nau, III^ Michael Grainger^ Brigid Leavy Daniel Davis PROGRAM ASSOCIATE AND Jim Campi Houston, Texas John D. Haynes DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL GIVING MANAGER EDUCATION MANAGER HAGERSTOWN OFFICE MANAGER REAL ESTATE Stephan F. Newhouse Jonelle Deavers Tom Gilmore CREATIVE DIRECTOR Bill Hupp Alice Mullis Vero Beach, Florida Duke Ligon DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SENIOR ASSOCIATE CHIEF REAL ESTATE OFFICER Jeff Griffith Marshal Oldman Libby O’Connell Frank Deluca FOR MEMBERSHIP Kathy Robertson ASSISTANT EDITOR Westlake Village, Calif. Robert G. O’Donnell SENIOR PHILANTHROPIC ADVISOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR Colleen Cheslak J. Dennis Sexton Jeff Rodek^ POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS OF REAL ESTATE St. Petersburg, Florida Theodore Sedgwick^ Jim Campi Catherine Noyes BOARD of TRUSTEES Charles E. Trefzger Jeff Shaara CHIEF POLICY AND LIBERTY TRAIL Thomas H. Lauer Hickory, North Carolina L. Dudley Walker COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER PROGRAM DIRECTOR Wellesley, Massachusetts Robert Uhler Mary Koik Jon Mitchell Chairman Niwot, Colorado DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS GIS SPECIALIST David N. Duncan William W. Vodra Heather Groves Fairfax, Virginia Alexandria, Virginia GRANTS MANAGER President Christopher C. Welton Christina Gomez Robert C. Daum Atlanta, Georgia LAND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATE North Palm Beach, Florida Susan Whitaker Vice Chairman Franklin, Tennessee 1156 15th Street, NW Mary Abroe Suite 900 Wilmette, Illinois * President Emeritus Washington, DC 20005 Travis K. Anderson ^ Chairman Emeritus Phone: 800-298-7878 Newton, New Jersey Terry Beaty, Jr. 1140 Professional Court Bethesda, Maryland Hagerstown, MD 21740 John Culberson Phone: 301-665-1400 Houston, Texas Fax: 301-665-1416 Vince Dooley Athens, Georgia James Elrod Riverside, Connecticut Richard Etzkorn Denver, Colorado Thomas P. Hand Richmond Hill, Georgia Van Hipp, Jr. Georgetown, S.C. The American Battlefield Trust preserves our nation’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters today. We permanently protect these battlefields as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Thanks to the contributions of more than 300,000 members and supporters nationwide, we have preserved more than 53,000 acres, 143 sites in 24 states. For more information, call 1-888-606-1400 or visit our website at www.battlefields.org. Hallowed Ground is the membership magazine of the American Battlefield Trust. It is produced solely for nonprofit educational purposes and every reasonable attempt is made to provide accurate and appropriate attribution for all elements, including those in the public domain.Contemporary 2 3 4 10 12 14 18 22 30 32 34 36 40 45 images are reproduced only with permission and appropriate Message from Web From the Field Success Page from “Approaching The Railroad Profiles in Ancestry Camp of Warrior Leading A Parting attribution; uncredited images are courtesy the American Headquarters Exclusives Trenches Reports Stories Past the Bastion City” Redoubt Preservation “The Fighting Instruction Legacy Shot Battlefield Trust. Feature articles reflect the research and opinion the the of the bylined author. ©2020 American Battlefield Trust. “Where Has by Kristopher “Off The Rails” Remembering Bearss” Charge The Seven Pines White by Andrew Ed Bearss Battlefield Gone?” Miller by Bill Vodra by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., Ph.D COVER: Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Miss., THIS PAGE: The USS Cairo, sunk during the siege but discovered and salvaged thanks to historian Ed Bearss, on display at Vicksburg NMP, Miss. Both by MIKE TALPLACIDO www.battlefields.org 1-888-606-1400 View of the Mississippi River MESSAGE from HEADQUARTERS from Vicksburg NMP, Miss. LETTERS FROM OUR LEADERS MIKE TALPLACIDO battlefiONe THEl TRUSTds WEBSITE.org Learn about the Battles of Gaines’ Mill and Cold Harbor The Trust has recently begun a massive, multi-year effort called the Gaines’ Mill-Cold Harbor Saved Forever Campaign. Learn more about these incredibly significant battles through articles from top historians, videos and other resources. www.battlefields.org/GainesMill and www.battlefields.org/ColdHarbor S WE APPROACH the end of 2020, about the Trust’s education programs and consider supporting them perhaps you, like me, are reflecting on with targeted gifts — I’d encourage you to read pages 34 and 35 to THE LONG ROAD a year we never could have imagined learn about the full suite of our educational efforts. TO PRESERVATION — from the uncertainty produced by a Finally, I told you about my vision for working toward the The Trust’s current project at Gaines’ Mill global pandemic to the ways we would substantial completion of America’s most important battlefields. and Cold Harbor is itself two decades in the rise to those challenges. We did not Although I was eager to share the news at the time, negotiations were making — but efforts to preserve these predict the important, but sometimes- not quite finalized, so I had to bite my tongue! But as you may have and other battlefields around Richmond difficult, conversations about American read in a separate letter, or on the protective wrap that accompanied date back a century! Explore our timeline history that are currently taking place all over the nation. On a this magazine, the Trust has now begun a multiyear effort we are of the long road these sites have taken personal level, although I knew the Trust would expe- calling the “Gaines’ Mill – Cold Harbor Saved Forever Campaign,” toward preservation. rience a leadership change in 2020, and I aspired to which will lead to the preservation of the most- www.battlefields.org/GMCHTimeline. follow Jim Lighthizer once he retired, the honor was important unprotected Civil War battlefield land in the neither expected nor assumed. entire country. That’s why, as I pause amid the bustle of the hol- This moment is literally decades in the making. THE WESTERN THEATER iday season, I am both very grateful and very proud. For all that time, if you had asked me — or Jim Grateful, because in my 20-plus years with the Trust, Lighthizer, or much of our staff and Board, or any num- ROAD TRIP I have never been more in awe of those, like you, ber of eminent historians — where the most important Generous donors to an online-only who make up this organization. Even as each one unprotected battlefield land in America was, I would have campaign sent Trust historians Garry of us experienced tremendous uncertainty — and pointed to the place where the hearts of both the Gaines’ Adelman and Kris White on a road trip many have experienced financial hardship — you Mill and Cold Harbor Battlefields, outside Richmond, through West Virginia and Kentucky. kept faith in our cause. We’ve all seen the headlines overlap. Over the next five years and with your help and Look for the dozens of videos they about museums and other cultural institutions uncertain whether generosity, we will work in stages to protect this supremely captured while exploring battlefields they will reopen, and about so many nonprofits having to slash hallowed ground through perpetual conservation easement. both large (Perryville! Harpers Ferry!) programs. Thanks to steadfast donors like you, the Trust has not But it isn’t just about this one opportunity, big as it is. Think and small (Kessler’s Cross Lanes?) along missed a beat, but instead has maintained an aggressive schedule of back over the last few years and recall some of
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