How about Coons Corner ?
Robert E. Lee was a great man . But he should have never ordered Genr’l Picket to take that copse of trees. J.E.B. Stewart shoulda never gone joy riding around south-central PA & he shoulda taken Little Round Top & Culp’s Hill . Things would be different now .
I always thought Lee should have fought the union more like Washington fought the British. I’m not expert in any of this, but maybe more defensively and less pickets charge type offensive actions.
Having traveled through, visited relatives, hunted and fished and eaten in around Charlottesville over a 50 year period, I would suggest renaming the park “420” or something befitting the current wave of dreadlocked, poncho’d stoner’s dropout’s and throwback’s who seem to infest this once ideological city.
Much like northern Virginia and Williamsburg, and Virginia government, Charlottesville too has become overridden by Northern retirees and their spawn which have thoroughly managed to marginalized the locals and befouled the landscape with liberal/leftist thought and deed. Sadly, this situation is only getting worse.
I hear ya.
Standing at that split rail fence and looking over the mile wide field of Pickett’s Charge I thought, ‘What was he thinking?’
Guess I don’t understand old military tactics.
Would they?
Things would have been different if Stonewall Jackson hadn’t been killed.