[FreedomCalls]

Actually, the Battle of the Crater (July 30, 1864) at Petersburg, Virginia was what was portrayed at the beginning of 'Cold Mountain.'

The Crater, then and now.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Hey, those are great images! I have a funny story. When my wife was doing some research on the Episcopal Church in Civil War Virginia, she went to Petersburg and had the opportunity to visit the park there. I've never been to Peterburg (shame on me), but she said that its trails were not as prominently marked as, say at Gettysburg or Antietam, and she ended up getting lost in the woods. After spending a couple of hours wandering around, she climbed over a fence and suddenly somehow found her self at the bottom of what she thought was a ravine. Turns out that she had stumbled straight into the crater. After climbing out, she took a good look at it, returned home, and categorically declared, "Yep, It's a big hole in the ground!" :)

At least it was funny when she first told me about it...

[Old Phone Man]

Post 104, like I say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Thanks for that.

I have many digital pictures of the Gettysburg tree-cutting but don't have a website to post them from to here.