Posted on 07/24/2005 4:10:53 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
yeah...
we had a baseball tournament. My mom came down with heat exhaustion in the middle of the game and they had to take her to the hospital....
It's was really hot when the actual battle was fought. It's hard to believe those men fought in that heat with those uniforms.
yeah and they knew NOTHING about hydration or anything at the time. And by the 3rd day most of the creeks in the area had to be running a bit low....
Gettysburg was bad enough...but Monmouth must have been a nightmare.
I haven't ever been to Monmouth....
Neither have I. Yet another battlefield on my must visit list. I was surprised that it's run by the state of New Jersey rather than the NPS.
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