Posted on 07/03/2008 6:28:24 AM PDT by mware
good points.
I should have qualified that by adding: "Except for a superior field Commanders at the begining of the war"
bttt
According to Shelby Foote, one side named the battles after physical geographic featrues near the battle, while the other named the battle after cites near the battle.
digging in the park will extend his vacation. The Rangers frown on those activities.
Even better. That would serve him right for rubbing-in his vacation to the battlefield.
Chamberlain was significant for a number of reasons. One of the more obscure is that he is considered the last man to die from wounds received in the Civil War. He died in 1914 (not 1913) and his death was attributed to his wound at Petersburg.
I’ve seen it before.
The tree was in the center of the Mule Shoe Salient at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
Read some on-line accounts of the battle or pick up “Bloody Roads South” by Noah Trudeau.
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Today I think again of my cousin Jim from Fauquier County, who marched with the Eighth Virginia and became one of the “pink mist” boys, forever nineteen.
He was a dear young man; I have read and touched his charming letters. His brother, a captain, had to go back home and tell their mother that he had lost her baby during Pickett’s Charge.
Courageous men they were. That is 3 o’clock in the morning courage, to walk across that field.
” the Federally slowed there rate of fire “
huh?
The more often I stand on either Cemetery and Seminary ridges the more in awe I become of those men.
My brother and I are heading up there tomorrow for the reenactments.
The “what if Jackson were at Gettysburg?” questions are fascinating. Ewell and Longstreet have been convenient scapegoats for those trying to absolve Lee of any responsibility for the defeat.
LOL. Great analogy.
I was at the Old Court House museum a few weeks ago in Winchester, VA and the lady who worked there assumed I was from the south because I reffered to the battle of Sharpsburg instead of Antietam.
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