Gettysburg - Derinda Babcock

July: A Time to Remember

June 26, 2019 by Derinda Babcock

July: Remembering the Past What images do you think of when someone mentions July? Fireworks, family barbecues, and picnics in the park? What about the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) or Gettysburg (July 1 – 3, 1863)? The American Civil War battle known as The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the fields surrounding the village of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and began July 1, 1863, and ended on July 3, 1863. In those three hot July days, more than 50,000 men were listed as killed, wounded, missing, or captured. When I began researching for my short story, “In A …

July: Pausing to Remember History

June 30, 2015 by Derinda Babcock

What images do you see when someone says July 4th? Do you think of picnics, fireworks, wars, old documents, or something else? As a reader and writer of historical fiction, here is what comes to my mind. July 3, 1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. The first battles of the American Revolution occurred in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. (Aril 19, 1775). People living in the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. July 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence is …