Many a good boy, North and South died this day in history.
Every death is a tragedy, and I don’t mean to minimize the grief that is felt today with each loss in our war against terrorism — but I do find it staggering that losing 4000 people over a 5 year period is now seen as a sign that we’ve lost the war. We used to understand the cost of war a bit better in this country.
I was born exactly 100 years later, to the day, of this battle, and grew up about 90 minutes away. As a family, we spent many a day trip there. It held a lot of fascination for me as a kid - the Jenny Wade House, Charlie Weaver's Museum, the cyclorama, the Battle Theatre...
