On Memorial Day weekend 2014, the National Park Service will join with a few representative communities across America to remember the struggle of those days of 1864. We will remember not just on the battlefields themselves, but in the communities that received the doleful news of that spring. The struggle of everyday Americans against loss, deprivation, and discouragement helped determine that fate of our Nation in 1864. The Reverberations program will once again reconnect American communities to the fields where their sons often gave all, and recognize a great and oft-forgotten struggle touched with both virtue and pain. You can follow these many stories via Richmond National Battlefield Park, Petersburg National Battlefield, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military Park. nps.gov/rich/reverberations.htm Park Ranger Bert Dunkerly details the devastation of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1st, 1864. The Litchfield-raised regiment lost 141 men in the attack, including their commander, Col. Elisha Kellogg. Listen to his program live at new.livestream/accounts/7553952/LitchfieldReverb
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 12:42:09 +0000
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