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Photo credit: Terry Rensel Preservation Updates and News From the Executive Director's Desk Spring is upon us here in the Fredericksburg...

Although a bit difficult to see in this photograph, the Federal skirmish earthwork line just west of Nine Mile Run is slightly visible...

Photo credit: Terry Rensel Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk It is February already and several major snowstorms...

"United States Sanitary Commission: Our Heroines" ( Harper's Weekly , April 9, 1864) If you wish to read Part I, you may do so here ....

Photo credit: Tom Van Winkle CVBT Newsletter, January 2025 Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk Well, here we are,...

"Surgeons Call" from "Life in Camp, Part 1" by Winslow Homer.  (Library of Congress) Introduction Illnesses and disease ravaged the ranks...

Photo credit: Terry Rensel CVBT Newsletter, December 2024 Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk Well, it’s Christmas...

A camp cooking scene by Charles Wellington Reed.  (Library of Congress) If you wish to read Part I, you may do so by clicking here ....

Photo credit: Terry Rensel Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk Unbelievably, November is here. Thanksgiving is but...

"Hard Tack," from "Life in Camp" by Winslow Homer.  (Library of Congress) Introduction A couple of weeks before the Battle of...

Photo credit: Terry Rensel Preservation Updates and News From the Executive Director's Desk It was great to see everyone who attended the...

"Sergeant James B. Stormes of Company A, 44th New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with regimental flag." Sgt. Stormes enlisted in the...

Photo credit: Terry Rensel Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk I am pleased to report that our 2024 CVBT Annual...

"The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862" by Carl Rochling depicts Col. Charles H. T. Collis leading his 114th Pennsylvania...

Photo credit: Terry Rensel Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk In our area busses are once again delivering students...

Corp. Daniel Chisholm's forage cap was damaged at the Battle of the Wilderness, his first battle. Chisholm served in the 116th...

Photo credit: Terry Rensel CVBT Newsletter, July 2024 Preservation Updates and News From the Executive Director's Desk I find it hard to...

Introduction Attempting to describe the chaotic fighting that occurred on May 3, 1863, during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Pvt....

Photo credit: American Battlefield Trust CVBT Newsletter, June 2024 Preservation Updates and News From the President's Desk It’s Chess,...