Telling History vs. Making Art: “a tension between Art and Science”
As a battlefield guide at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP), I frequently speak with folks who’ve come to the battlefields because they’ve readThe Killer Angels, which in turn inspired them to come see a Civil War battlefield. Michael Shaara’s novel is about the battle of Gettysburg and has nothing to do with any of the battlefields at FSNMP (Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania), but I am typically grateful that the novel-or perhaps its film version, Gettysburg-has stimulated someone’s interest enough to bring them through the front door.
Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.
Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.