December 30, 2006:
Began adding a section on the
Overland Campaign.
December 9 & 10, 2006:
Added a page about the Union retreat from the Battle of 2nd Manassas and
the Stone Bridge.
Also updated much of the text and added several photos in that same section.
December 4, 2006:
Added a listing of on-line glossaries and listings of Civil War terminology to the
Resources and Links page.
Updated several others.
December 2 & 3, 2006:
Added new panoramas of the
Manassas Battlefield.
Updated several others.
November 26 & 27, 2006:
Updated the section on
the Battle of Second Manassas
including adding several new pages and updating many of the images.
November 12, 2006:
Updated the
Resources and Links
page.
November 3, 4, 5, & 6, 2006:
Added pictures and text to the pages concerning the
Iron Brigade and the
Death of General Reynolds.
Also added/edited:
October 29, 2006:
Updated and fixed broken or redirected links of the
Resources and Links page.
October 23 & 24, 2006:
Restructured and added panoramas to the
Gettysburg Panorama pages.
The Gettysburg panorama pages are now separated by the individual days of battle for faster loading.
October 5, 2006:
Corrected some spelling errors that are just too embarrassing to mention.
October 3, 2006:
Added a panorama of
Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia.
September 29 & 30, 2006:
Added a new page on
Stonewall Jackson's
capture of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia prior to the Battle of Antietam and updated the page on
A. P. Hill's flank attack and the
Texas Brigade at Antietam.
Also updated the menu names on all Antietam pages for easier navigation.
July 7, 8, & 9, 2006:
Started a new blog entitled
"
Civil War Photos". Updated the photos
of the
William Rihl monument in
Greencastle, PA,
Herr Ridge, the
Eternal Light Peace Memorial on
Oak Hill,
Longstreet in Pitzer's Woods at
sunrise, and
Pardee Field.
Also added before and after panoramas of the
Devil's Den and
Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge
showing the progress made in restoring the battlefield to its 1863 appearance.
Added panoramas of
Oak Ridge and Iverson's Pits
also showing the results of recent tree clearing and of
Barlow's Knoll
at sunset. Added a picture of the field over which
Brigadier General Joseph R. Davis
advanced on the morning of July 1, 1863.
June 24 & 25, 2006:
Replaced older picture of the
room
at Guinea Station where CSA General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died with a larger, better quality picture. Also updated
the video clip of
the Virginia Monument at
Sunrise.
June 17, 2006:
Added or edited pictures on the
Gettysburg Day 1,
Main Menu, and
Added a current picture of
General
Lee's headquarters.
June 3 & 4, 2006:
Re-edited multiple pictures throughout the site.
May 28, 2006:
Added pages entitled
The Scene
Revisited and
The Confusion of
Battle to the Battle of Fredericksburg section. Added pictures of
cannon at Chatham Manor and of the
Middle Crossing along with Colonel
Norman J. Hall's description of the 7th Michigan's crossing of the river under fire.
Also re-edited some pictures, and fixed a few broken internal links.
May 20 & 21, 2006:
Added several
Fredericksburg
Videos and re-edited some of the existing
videos.
Updated the
Resources &
Links page along with the
Site Map.
May 13 & 14, 2006:
Completely revised the
Multimedia
page adding several new videos from Antietam, Manassas, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Also added
a video section to the
Resources and Links page.
April 30, 2006:
Added a new slideshow to the
Multimedia
page.
April 30, 2006:
Added a panorama of the
Line
General Sickles was to have held as ordered by General Meade.
April 14 & 15, 2006:
Added more 3rd and 5th Corps monument pictures to the
Order
of Battle page. Also re-edited a few of the
Eastern Theater Panoramas.
April 9, 2006:
Added a picture of the fields defended by
Battery B 1st New Jersey
Light. Also updated pictures highlighting the
Terrain of Pickett's
Charge, the
North Carolina Monument, and some of the
2nd and 3rd Corps monuments on the
Order of Battle
page.
April 8, 2006:
Removed all references and links to the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association due to their support for the proposed Casino
near the battlefield and to the content of their testimony during the recent hearings. More details to follow.
April 1, 2006:
Verified and fixed all links on the
Resources and Links
page.
March 21, 2006:
Re-edited many of the
Antietam pictures.
March 11 & 12, 2006:
Added about 21 more pictures to the
Union Order of Battle page which
includes the regimental monuments. Also updated a few pictures throughout the site.
March 4 & 5, 2006:
Added about 52 more pictures to the
Union Order of Battle page which
includes the regimental monuments.
March 2, 2006:
Added a page about the
21st Mississippi, Captain Bigelow and the 9th Massachusetts Artillery, and
Colonel Freeman McGilvery's artillery line on Cemetery Ridge.
March 1, 2006:
Well, this was a very
unexpected surprise. I just learned that the excellent on-line daily Civil War newspaper, "Civil War Interactive" has
honored this web site with their Editor's Choice Award. This is what they were kind enough to say. "A nicely done site with a
rather misleading name. While the Battle of Gettysburg is the main focus, the pages include much more than that, including
Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Manassas and more. The webmaster has done an excellent job of blending informative text with
superb pictures. Pay attention to the navigation bar on the left, as it changes from page to page meaning there's much more to the
site than it first appears. A very enjoyable website!"
Thank you very much CWI for your very kind words and the honor of your award.
February 26, 2006:
Added two pages to the Day 3 section, one offering a
Confederate perspective
of Pickett's Charge and one from the
Union side.
February 19, 2006:
Added to, and updated the code for viewing, the
video clips.
Also, sadly, added information on the recently
vandalized
monuments at Gettysburg.
February 15, 2006:
Updated the code for viewing the
video clips.
February 11, 2006:
Still re-editing more of the existing photographs.
January 27 & 28, 2006:
Continued to re-edit many of the existing photographs. Also added a picture of the
sanctuary inside the Dunker Church.
January 21 to 23, 2006:
Re-edited many of site's older
Antietam pictures and added a picture of the view from
Seminary Ridge to Cemetery Ridge.
January 14 & 15, 2006:
Re-edited many of site's older pictures including most of
The Gettysburg Panoramas.
Added a large picture of the
Virginia Monument, and
several new
Gettysburg Battlefield panoramas
including Major General Oliver O. Howard's line facing Oak Ridge, the Devil's Den, and several views of, or from, Little Round Top.
The files I re-edited are larger than their predecessors and so will load a little more slowly with dial up connections.
January 12, 2006:
Added to the existing
Note To Parents regarding the content of this site and
precautions for young children.
January 7 & 8, 2006:
Updated both Orders of Battle for the
Army of Northern Virginia
and the
Army of the Potomac. Also added a picture of
cannon facing north on Cemetery Hill in the direction of the July 2nd attacks
and a picture of
Devil's Den & Houck's Ridge from Little Round Top.
Added segments of various official reports to the page concerning
Pardee Field
and a panorama of
Lt. Colonel McGilvery's Artillery Line.
January 1-3, 2006:
Updated many of the
Battle of Gettysburg Day 1 pages. Also added a
Dedication Page.
December 26, 2005:
Added two large panoramas. The largest, a 1.5MB file, is of the
Battlefield from the Culp's Hill Tower.
The other is a view of the southern end of the field from
Little Round Top.
December 18, 2005:
Added a page about
Visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield.
December 10, 2005:
Redesigned the
Multimedia Page and added links to on-site videos.
Also added a video of
the Virginia Monument along Gettysburg Seminary Ridge at sunrise
and
the View from Little Round Top.
December 05, 2005:
Redesigned the
entry page to this site. Also updated several pictures including
those on the pages about
General Hancock's wounding, the
Triangle Field,
Colonel Isaac Avery & Cemetery Hill (including
additional text),
The Bliss Farm (including additional text),
the Trostle Farm,
and
Brigadier General Strong Vincent.
November 27, 2005:
Updated the
Resources & Links page by adding sections
concerning "Casualties" and "Civilian Life" along with adding links to several existing sections.
November 19 & 20, 2005:
Added a picture of the
Children of Amos Humiston.
Sergeant Humiston was found on the field holding a picture of his 3 children, apparently the last thing upon which he
gazed before he died.
Also added a page on the Triangle Field at Gettysburg which includes pictures of the
field, Captain James Smith's 4th New York Battery Monument, and the monument to the 124th New York
infantry and Colonel
Augustus Van Horn Ellis.
Also added a page on General Robert E. Lee's Headquarters and his plans for
the final assaults of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Added a picture of the remains of the Wrightsville Bridge.
Also edited and made minor revisions to the pages for the Battle of Gettysburg Days 1 and 2.
November 12 & 13, 2005:
Added original 19th century pictures of several locations so that visitors to this site can see how the sites looked in the 1860s.
Pages with these pictures include:
Gettysburg:
Antietam:
Fredericksburg:
2nd Manassas:
All Civil War era pictures are courtesy of the United States Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Just click on the link on each of these pages that says, "How this location looked then." Please be cautious as some
include graphic pictures of battlefield casualties.
Also updated the page on
the Sunken Road / Bloody Lane and added a part on
Antietam's Battlefield terrain.
November 9, 2005:
I am very disappointed to announce that the Guest Book has been removed from this site due to a near constant stream of unwanted spam.
Please feel free to e-mail any comments or questions you may have by visiting
this page of our site.
November 5 & 6, 2005:
Updated several of the pictures on the
Battle of Antietam page.
Updated the formatting of the entire site so that it is equally well
viewed at 1024 X 768 and 800 X 600 resolutions. {And it looks better too!}
Validated all html.
October 29 & 30, 2005:
Updated the page on
Robert E. Lee. Also corrected the formatting
of many of the primary pages.
October 16, 2005:
Added title banners to most of the main pages with some yet to go.
October 1 & 2, 2005:
Updated the page on
President Lincoln's response to Major
General Ambrose E. Burnside's official report for the Battle of Fredericksburg. Updated most of the
Chancellorsville pages including those concerning
General
Hooker's May 1st Offensive,
Hazel Grove and the Bullock
House, and
Stonewall Jackson's Wounding. Also
added a quote from "The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E.
Pickett C.S.A." on the
Abraham Lincoln page
(last quote at the bottom).
September 24 & 25, 2005:
Added a page concerning the
Federal's pontoons at Fredericksburg as well as
President Abraham Lincoln's
response to General Burnside's official report. Also added text to the page concerning the
battered ruins of Fredericksburg and a picture of the
grave marker and monument to
Major General JEB Stuart
at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond Virginia. Added an additional view of the monument to
Sergeant Richard Kirkland, the Angel of Marye's Heights,
which includes a section of the original stone wall at Fredericksburg. Also added a picture of the
ridge line which Major General George Gordon Meade
wished to defend during May 1, 1863 and the Chancellorsville Campaign (click on link in first paragraph).
September 17 & 18, 2005:
Added multiple pictures to the
Chancellorsville section along with a new page
about
Union Major General Hooker's May 1st offensive and
Confederate Major General McLaws actions on the same ground.
September 11, 2005:
Added several pictures and updated almost all of those remaining in the
Fredericksburg section
with more to come.
September 10, 2005:
Added a few pictures and updated almost all of those remaining in the
Chancellorsville section
with more to come.
September 07, 2005:
Added a brief
video
of the room at Guinea Station Virginia where Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas J.
"Stonewall" Jackson died.
August 27 & 28, 2005:
Added a page and pictures about
The Wheatfield and updated the
Contact page which includes the Brotherswar.com
e-mail address for feedback, comments, and questions, a Guest Book, and a link to the Brotherswar.com
Blog. Also added additional quotes to the
Antietam
Aftermath page.
August 21, 2005:
Updated the
Conditions for Use page
which address how and under what circumstances content original to the author of this site may or may
not be used. Also added links to the
Links and
On-Line Resources page.
August 6, 2005:
I am happy to report that our entire slide show page has been updated. We
have added a new multimedia slide show entitled "The Essence of Gettysburg"
and have upgraded our previous show. Both can be found at our
"
Civil War Sideshow" page.
{Please, this slide show is recommended for broadband connections only.}
August 5, 2005:
Added pictures of the
147th Pennsylvania monument and a
picture of the
1st (2nd) Maryland CSA Advanced Marker showing
its position in respect to Pardee Field.
August 2, 2005:
Added a page with several pictures concerning the
Texas Brigade and the 140th New York
on July 2, 1863.
August 1, 2005:
Updated and/or added pictures to the following pages:
The Men of the 1st (2nd) Maryland & Grace, CSA
The 1st (2nd) Maryland CSA Advance Marker
Remains of Confederate Burial Trenches
The 20th Maine, Southern Slope of Little Round Top, & the 20th Maine on Big Round Top
The monument to the 137th New York on Culp's Hill
July 24, 2005:
I am very pleased to announce a new entry on my "American Civil War & The Battle of Gettysburg"
Blog which discusses the work of award winning historical landscape and preservation artist, Jeff Fioravanti. Please click
here to read the article,
learn about the artist and his work towards the preservation of our
treasured historic lands, and see some examples
of this talented artist's fine work.
July 23, 2005:
Updated the page concerning
Civil War Battlefield Preservation.
July 16, 2005:
Validated and updated all links on the
Resources & Links page.
July 10, 2005:
Updated many of the pictures for the Battle of Gettysburg for
July 1, 1863,
July 2, 1863, and
July 3, 1863. Also updated some of those in the
July 5, 2005:
Added a short movie clip of a
skirmisher demonstration
from a recent Battlefield Walk at Hunterstown Pennsylvania.
June 24, 2005:
Updated many of the pictures on the
Gettysburg July 1 1863 pages.
June 11, 2005:
Added a smaller sister site,
Gettysburg in the Snow,
which depicts various locations on the battlefield during or after a winter snow.
June 5, 2005:
Continued to add pictures of monuments to the
Order of
Battle pages.
May 28 & 29, 2005:
Corrected an error and added several pictures to the Army of the Potomac
Order of Battle page.
May 22, 2005:
Added a lengthy page to the "Gettysburg July 3, 1863" section discussing
Major General JEB Stuart. Also re-wrote the page on
Brigadier General Louis Armistead's role in Pickett's Charge.
May 21, 2005:
Added quotes on the pages for
The Battle of Chancellorsville, Casualties
and
The Field of Pickett's Charge. Also added a Trivia section
to the
Resources & Links page.
May 18, 2005:
Re-edited the pages for
The Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.
May 15, 2005:
Added a page on the
Union Cavalry's position on Herr Ridge
early morning on July 1, 1863. Also edited slightly most of the Gettysburg Day 1 pages and added a panorama
of the view from Buford Avenue looking towards
Herr Ridge.
May 7, 2005:
Added a Weblog to the
Contact Page. I will be posting
something new at least each weekend.
May 1, 2005:
Added picture of the
field of Pickett's Charge and a page
about the
Innis House at Fredericksburg.
April 30, 2005:
Updated the
introductory page and added a picture of the fields over
which Union General Meade marched his men towards Jackson's lines at
Fredericksburg. Also added a picture of
the Sickles' wounding marker at Gettysburg.
April 24, 2005:
Added additional quotes or otherwise edited a few of the Chancellorsville and Antietam pages:
Georgia Monument at Sharpsburg,
Jackson's wounding at Chancellorsville,
the burial of Jackson's arm, and
the death of Stonewall Jackson.
April 14, 2005:
Fixed link to the
Jackson Wounding Map.
April 2, 2005:
Added several items to the Chancellorsville section including a page on the
Cracker Barrel Conference,
a map of the
route taken by General Jackson
during the reconnaissance on which he was wounded, and a section on the United Daughters of the
Confederacy Marker at the
Salem Church which
honors Confederate and Union men alike.
Also added a
panorama of Washington DC
as seen from Arlington.
March 31, 2005:
Added a page on
Major General Joseph Hooker
and his plans for the Battle of Chancellorsville.
March 25, 2005:
Added a page on to the Soldier's Stories section about
John Burns and his day of fighting
with the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg. Includes a picture of Burns and of his monument on McPherson Ridge.
March 20, 2005:
Added a page on the Battle's
First Shot. Also added a page
about
CSA Brigadier General Barksdale's
assault on Day 2 and Colonel Willard's counter assault. Added to existing page about
Union Major General Sickle's wounding
and the loss of his leg.
March 19, 2005:
Added a page in the section concerning
"Antietam" about General
Lee and his plans after the victory at Second Manassas / Bull Run. This includes a picture of the new
Monument to General Lee. Also added a picture of the monument to
Major General Meade in Washington DC.
March 17, 2005:
Added a page in "Perspectives" about the
Life of Soldiers
as written by Private Sam Watkins.
March 12, 2005:
Added images of individual monuments and park tablets/markers to the Order of Battle pages.
Army of the Potomac and
Army of Northern Virginia.
March 5, 2005:
Added images of Peter Frederick Rothermel's paintings of the
CSA 1st Maryland's fight on Culp's Hill
and
Pickett's Charge.
Also added a page on Brigadier General Joseph Davis' July 1 assault and the
147th New York Infantry.
February 27, 2005:
Added several
Panoramas to the Gettysburg
Panoramas page.
Also added several pictures to the pages on the fighting which occurred on
July 3, 1863.
February 21, 2005:
Added pictures and text to the
Emancipation Proclamation page of the Antietam section.
Added picture of the monument to the
Angel of Marye's Heights to the Fredericksburg pages.
Also added picture of the Monument to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederacy on the
Perspective
pages.
