I have been to Cold Harbor, a much less known battlefield.
It’s a powerful thing to walk across the killing field where thousands fell in minutes.
7 thousand union casualties in the first 20 minutes. Grant's biggest mistake and he admitted as such.
I have a great, great uncle who died there. Also, the leg of another.
Cold Harbor was not fun for the Green Mountain folk that day.
“It’s a powerful thing to walk across the killing field where thousands fell in minutes.”
There is a movie out there called “The Last Castle”. With an old Robert Redford playing a famed General that gets sent to prison. He is pitted against the warden.
The warden (military) has a display of mostly Civil War stuff all around his office, with a glass table with his prized items.
In the opening scene of the movie, the warden leaves the room to go get a book the General wrote so he can autograph it.
The warden’s assistant proudly states out “This section here are mini-balls from Gettysburg.”
Redford says something like “Hell of a thing to proudly display something that might have gone through an American boy that day. Obviously the warden has never come close to combat.”
The warden hears this and stashes his book. “Oh - I couldn’t find it at the moment, perhaps later.”
Their relationship goes down from there.
I REALLY enjoyed the movie.