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SUMMARY:Chris Mackowski — A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse
DESCRIPTION:EVENT DETAILS: \nChris Mackowski — A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse \nLocation – Wisconsin Club (900 W Wisconsin Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI) \n5:30 p.m. – Registration/Social Hour\n6:30 p.m. – Dinner\n7:30 p.m. – Program\nCost: $35 by reservation\, please\n(Note: Jackets required for the dining room) \nRSVP: \nPlease contact Paul Eilbes at 262.376.0568 or peilbes@gmail.com to RSVP. We hope to see you there! \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nOn May 7th\, join Chris Mackowski for a presentation on the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse\, a conflict that reached a gruesome peak at the “Bloody Angle.” For twenty-two grueling hours\, Federal and Confederate forces engaged in the war’s most intense sustained hand-to-hand combat amidst torrential rain and knee-deep mud. Described by those who survived it as a “Saturnalia of blood\,” the struggle came to represent the absolute limit of human endurance and physical savagery. This event explores the harrowing details of a battle so brutal it earned haunting nicknames like “Hell’s Half-Acre” and the “slaughter pen of Spotsylvania. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nChris Mackowski has authored or coauthored nearly two dozen books and serves as a Copie Hill Civil War Fellow at the American Battlefield Trust. He holds various leadership and advisory roles within the historical community\, including positions with the Civil War Roundtable Congress and the Antietam Institute. A prolific writer and historian\, Chris remains a dedicated advocate for Civil War education and battlefield preservation.
URL:https://www.milwaukeecwrt.org/event/chris-mackowski-a-tempest-of-iron-and-lead-the-battle-of-spotsylvania-courthouse/
LOCATION:The Wisconsin Club\, 900 W Wisconsin Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53233
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Eilbes":MAILTO:peilbes@gmail.com
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