Echoes of the Civil War
Michael Falco
Oct 7 - Oct 31, 2016
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Friday, October 7, 2016
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In 2011, photographer Michael Falco began a four-year journey to explore what remains of America’s Civil War landscape. Arguably the most important event in United States history, Falco discovered there was no need for time traveling – what was discovered was not only the war’s battlefields untouched by time, but descendants returning to the fields dressed in the guise of their great great grandfathers.
The revelation that the Civil War reenactment community had familial connections to these monumental events led Falco to become a re-enactor himself. Once immersed in the culture, Falco captured reenactments from the front lines to provide a soldier’s perspective. Photographed with homemade large format pinhole cameras, the images were combined with landscape photos of the battlefields to create a present-day visual narrative.
Battle on the Roundtop
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This is a double exposure image taken at the 150th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in 2013. The image actually depicts two distinctive battles fought at Gettysburg in 1863, the Battle for Little Roundtop and the Battle of the Wheatfield. The reenactment occurred outside the town of Gettysburg at the Bushey Farm. Still family owned and operated the 19th century farmstead afforded the re-enactors a mock battleground that eerily resembled the landscape so famously fought over just a mile or so away 150 years before.
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10/10
Gettysburg 2013
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Shirkers
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Shirkers is term used by soldiers to describe the inevitable cases of their comrades dropping out of the battle due to fatigue or cowering under fire. These re-enactors, exhausted from marching and “fighting” all day, sit amid gun smoke and rest against a grove of trees as the 150th anniversary of the Seven Days Battles rages on.
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20/20
Elizabethtown, PA 2012
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Fort Gregg
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The remnants of earthworks surround a grove of trees on the Battlefield at Petersburg. This is the site of Fort Gregg the last Confederate stronghold during the eight month siege at Petersburg. On April 2, 1864, savage fighting occurred here as Confederates fought to holdback a Union attack that final sealed the fate of the Rebels in this crucial battle. Seen as a forlorn hope the Confederate defense at Fort Gregg succeeded in giving commander Robert E. Lee enough time to extricate what remained of his army and escape from the City of Petersburg.
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Petersburg, Virginia 2014
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Echoes at Shiloh
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Union re-enactors fly the stars and stripes during the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh. Along the banks of the Tennessee River on April 6, 1862, the first epic battle of the Civil War was fought at a place called Shiloh. By the end of the following day, the dense forests around Shiloh were littered with over 23,000 dead and dying men. In 2012, Falco visited this remarkable battlefield and found it just as it was described by the soldiers who fought here. The battlefield at Shiloh is a 19th century wilderness that sent shivers up his spine.
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15/15
2012
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Gaines' Mill Battlefield
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Quiet country road runs along a cornfield on the Battlefield at Gaines’ Mill. The tree line at left contains the meandering Boatswains Creek where Confederate troops gathered before their assault here in June 1862 during the Seven Days Battles.
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Henrico County, Virginia 2012
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Windsor Ruins
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The Windsor Plantation was considered the finest antebellum Greek Revival mansion in Mississippi when it was built in 1861. Union troops commanded by Ulysses S. Grant visited this site on their march towards Vicksburg in late 1862. The mansion survived the war but was destroyed by fire in 1890. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, 23 Corinthian columns defiantly survive the passage of time.
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Port Gibson, Mississippi 2012
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Flags at Cedar Creek
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Union flags billow in the wind at dawn on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Creek. The final and most significant battle for control of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley began at dawn on September 27th 1864. Confederate forces surprised the unsuspecting Union forces encamped here and sent them reeling. By mid afternoon the tide had completely turned Union troops counterattacked and decisively routed and destroyed the Confederate Army of the Shenandoah in one of the boldest reversals in the Civil War.
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20/20
2014
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Fire on the Rappahannock
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Union cannoneers begin a 150th anniversary reenactment of the battle with a salvo across the Rappahannock River into the City of Fredericksburg. The Union bombardment of Fredericksburg in December 1862 was the first instance of an occupied city being bombed in American history. Southern residents of the city literally fled for the hills in this precursor to the Union Army crossing of the river and the battle that followed. Union troops assaulted the well defended heights beyond the city and were ultimately turned back, leaving over 9,000 casualties in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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Fredericksburg, VA 2012
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Blackhats in the Cornfield
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This image was taken at sunrise in Antietam’s famous cornfield on the 150th anniversary of the single bloodiest day in American history. On September 17, 1862, Union soldiers of the Wisconsin Black Hats collided with Confederate forces outside the Town of Sharpsburg, Maryland and fought a desperate four hour battle amongst the corn stalks here. By 9am that morning, nearly 9,000 men lay dead or wounded in this now hallowed cornfield. Tragically in 1862 the Battle of Antietam had just begun.
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Antietam 2012
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From Little Roundtop
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This is the view from Little Roundtop overlooking the Battlefield at Gettysburg. It was from these heights that the Union Army fought back numerous Confederate assaults on July 2, 1863 retaining this critical defensive ground throughout the battle. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, who led the final bayonet charge down these hills that ended the fighting here in the Union’s favor, received the Congressional Metal of Honor for this action.
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Gettysburg 2013
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Signal Corps at Cedar Creek
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Although the telegraph was in use during the Civil War, signal flag operators were kept in use throughout the war. Places like Cedar Creek in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley -- surrounded by mountain chains with wide open farmland in-between -- became a scene of mobile warfare. In these instances the Signal Corps became a means of long-range communication on the field of battle. At right, a regiment of Union re-enactors are blurred as they march along the hills of Cedar Creek Battlefield on the 150th anniversary of this tide turning battle of the Civil War.
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Virginia 2014
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Falco as a re-enactor
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2014
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