May 2026 meeting of the CWRT: Chris Mackowski on “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House”

May 2026 meeting of the CWRT: Chris Mackowski on “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House”

From The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meetings by Marc Kunis

May 10, 2026 · 1h 2m

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Chris Mackowski discusses the intense and brutal Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the Civil War.

Chris Mackowski on “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House” for more info: www.chicagocwrt.org For twenty-two straight hours, in torrential downpours, up to their knees in mud and blood, Federals and Confederates slugged it out in the most intense sustained hand-to-hand combat of the war. A panoply of horror, one soldier called it. A Saturnalia of blood. Hell’s Half-Acre. The slaughter pen of Spotsylvania. Most remember it simply as the Bloody Angle. Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Emerging Civil War and the series editor of the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series, published by Savas Beatie. Chris is a writing professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY, where he also serves as associate dean for undergraduate programs. Chris is also historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge , a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield in central Virginia. He has worked as a historian for the National Park Service at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, where he gives tours at four major Civil War battlefields (Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville…

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