Fall 2015 Lecture Series

"Hell's Half-Acre:The Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania"
Presented by Kris White, co-author of A Season of Slaughter: The Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, adjunct professor of History at Allegany Community College and co-founder of Emerging Civil War online journal.
For 22 hours, the armies of the Potomac and of Northern Virginia bludgeoned one another in a driving rain. When it was all said and done, the Confederates still held the field and 17,000 soldiers had become causalities. We will explore the reasons for the battle, the innovative tactics used to break the Confederate lines and stores of the men trapped in a no-man's land between two armies.