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Hollywood Cemetery: Where the Dead Teach the Living to Walk Slowly

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There is a particular kind of silence that settles over certain places — not the silence of emptiness, but the silence of resolved things, finally allowed to rest. You feel it the moment you pass through the iron gates of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. The holly trees press close. The James River moves below. […]

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Cold Harbor: 7000 Casualties in an Hour And What We Owe Them

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The sun had barely risen over the Virginia countryside on June 3, 1864, when tens of thousands of Union soldiers fixed their bayonets and prepared to charge. They had done this before — at the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, at a dozen smaller engagements that had bled the Army of the Potomac across the spring. But

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