“I guarantee there are folks who commute to work on route 3 (the Plank Road) every day and if you asked them about Chancellorsville they’d give you a blank stare.”
There was a time, and it wasn’t that many years ago, that I could tell you very little or nothing at all about the lesser written about and less publicized battles. When doing family research I studied up on these lesser known battles that my ancestors fought in and others as well, and learned a whole lot more about that horrific war than what I was taught in school.
Now just the mere mention of the words, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Petersburg, or Cold Harbor sends chills up my spine.
Some day I would love to make the long trip back there and visit those sites.
Proud member of the 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment Descendants Association
Hopefully the renewed in interest in the Civil War will continue to grow during the 150th anniversaries.