(The last post from the last trip -onto 2011!) After visiting the Fredericksburg Visitor Center, watching the film, walking along the stone wall, the sunken road and visiting the cemetery on the hill, where unknown soldiers are buried in graves, with numbers indicating how many are resting in the same grave together, the # 5 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Civil War Sites’
Fredericksburg
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil War Sites, Fredericksburg, Virginia on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, a Civil War Re-enactment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Battle of Cedar Creek Re-enactment, Civil War Sites, Fall 2010 trip on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Oh, you should have been here last week” people say – or, ”You’re going to miss a big one next weekend”. We’ve yet to be at the right site at the right time to experience a re-enactment. This time, we violate the sanctity of the spontaneous RV lifestyle, and plan ahead by a day or [...]
Harper’s Ferry and the Civil War at the KOA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil War Sites, Fall 2010 trip, Harper's Ferry, Maryland on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my high-school mind, Harper’s Ferry has always been pretty much synonymous with abolitionist John Brown’s Raid. This is definitely the spot, and there’s a major exhibit that deals with Brown and his companions, what they believed, their bloody attempt to seize the weapons at the arsenal here, and the historical aftermath. But almost every [...]
Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andersonville National Historic Site, Civil War Sites, Georgia trip, Navion 24J, RV travel, trip plans on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, it’s a peaceful place, a green rolling hill dotted with a few monuments and markers. But knowing what happened here in 1864-5, imagining what those human beings endured, the hellish conditions, will haunt me for a very long time. 45,000 Union soldiers were confined in a 26-acre stockade during the fourteen months this Civil [...]
